Voting and Elections

Vocabulary

· VAP, VEP

· Self-reported data, Objective/statistical data

· Party Identification (partisanship)

· Alignment, realignment

· Ideological Identification—positions on political and non-political issues

· Incumbency Advantage

· Ticket-splitting, straight party ticket/vote

· Cleavages, cross-cutting cleavages

· FECA

· PACs, party money, independent money, “SuperPACs,” intra-party transfers (of campaign money)

· Personal vote

· Partisan coherence, partisan ideological coherence, partisan/ideological polarization

· Districts’ partisan leanings, national partisan tides

· Gerrymandering

Topics

· Polling, survey research

· Voter Participation—Census Bureau

· Voting Behavior—Exit Polls, NES data

· Influence of money on partisanship