Minimizing Partisanship in Elections: Nonpartisan Ballots and the Partisanship of Who Serves in Office

• In Event: Partisanship, Legislator Behavior, and Electoral Representation

Brief Overview

We compile a novel dataset of electoral institutions, elected officials' partisanship, and voters' partisanship for 20,000 US cities in order to examine how nonpartisan ballots affect officials' partisanship.

Authors

• Dan Butler, Washington University in St Louis

• Adam Michael Dynes, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Michelle Torres, University of California-Los Angeles