Analyzing Turnout and Vote Shares in the Presence of Procedural Changes to Voting

• In Event: Political Rules and Electoral Competition

Brief Overview

Using an overdispersed multinomial model for count data, we study how changes in voting precincts and other voting procedures affected county-level votes shares and turnout in presidential elections in Texas since 2000.

Authors

• Scott Basinger, University of Houston

• Michael Ensley, Kent State University at Kent