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The Voting Wars: Public Opinion About Battles Over Voting Rules

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By Ryan Claassen, Michael Ensley
| SAGE Publishing
Get full access to this article View all access and purchase options for this article. Data availability statement Replication materials and Supplementary Online Appendix available at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D6XZ1H (Claassen, 2025). References Achen C. H., Bartels L. M. (2016). Democracy for realists: Why elections do not produce responsive government. Princeton University Press. Atkeson L. R., Michael Alvarez R., Hall T. E., Andrew Sinclair J. (2014).
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Analysis | Why so many Republican officials went along with Trump’s fraud claims Original

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By Ryan Claassen, Michael Ensley, John Ryan
| The Washington Post Verified
Many have speculated about why Republican elected officials went along with President Trump’s efforts to convince Americans that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. Our research suggests that a big piece of the puzzle is the GOP base. Republican voters tell pollsters they believe Trump when he says there is fraud. Partisans, we’ve found, are motivated to believe that the other party cheated and are skeptical about claims that their party cheated. Evidence has nothing to do with it.
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Motivated Reasoning and Yard-Sign-Stealing Partisans: Mine is a Likable Rogue, Yours is a Degenerate Criminal

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By Ryan Claassen, Michael Ensley
| link.springer.com
Abstract We fielded an experiment in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study testing the theory that motivated reasoning governs reactions to news about misdeeds on the campaign trail. Treated subjects either encountered a fabricated news story involving phone calls with deceptive information about polling times or one involving disappearing yard signs (the offending party was varied at random). Control subjects received no treatment.
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Journal of Public Policy

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By Scott de Marchi, Spencer Dorsey, Michael Ensley, Laura C. Bucci
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Policy and the structure of roll call voting in the US house

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By Michael Ensley, Scott de Marchi, Spencer Dorsey
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Adler, ES and Wilkerson, JD (2013) Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Aldrich, JH (1995) Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. Aldrich, JH, Montgomery, JM and Sparks, DB (2014) Polarization and Ideology: Partisan Sources of Low Dimensionality in Scaled Roll Call Analyses. Political Analysis 22: 435–456.
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Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of dirty tricks. Will it matter?

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By Ryan Claassen, Michael Ensley
| The Washington Post Verified
Allegations of dirty political tricks in Iowa are flying. Donald Trump is tweeting about little else. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump summarized the dust-up: “Trump referred to Cruz’s campaign having emailed voters during the caucuses implying that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.
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