Liberal Arts and Sciences
Michael Martinez Research Group
Led by Michael D. Martinez · Political Science
What we study
Dr. Martinez studies voting behavior, turnout, partisanship, ideology and ambivalence in public opinion, including survey research on how survey mode affects measurement and how ballot design affects elections.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Surveys & interviews
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
Examining voter turnout effects
They use multinomial models to simulate how turnout impacts election outcomes.
Role of ambivalence in public opinion
They study how ambivalence influences political attitudes and voting behavior.
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Recent papers, explained
- Election administration harms and ballot design: A study of Florida's 2018 United States Senate race
2024 · American Journal of Political Science
Shows how Florida's 2018 ballot design may have caused 25,000 voters to undervote.
- Measuring “Who is a Jew?” Why It Matters in Jewish Political Behavior
2022 · Contemporary Jewry
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- The Different Faces of Public Opinion: Is the American Voter Tinted by Mode?
2021 · International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Finds that web survey respondents are more politically knowledgeable and ideologically constrained.
- Determined by Mode? Representation and Measurement Effects in a Dual-Mode Statewide Survey
2021 · Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
Tests whether differences in survey responses come from how people are sampled or how they answer.
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