Strategic Party Registration in Primary Elections: Evidence from Voter File Panel Data

• In Event: Political Information, Opinions and Sophisticated Voting Behavior

Brief Overview

We investigate the extent to which voters in the US strategically register with the locally dominant party to participate in its primaries, leveraging changes in primary rules and local partisanship using voter file panel data.

Authors

• Jacob R Brown, Harvard University

• Sam Mitchell

• Connor Halloran Phillips, Princeton University