Mann, Christopher B. 2020. “Can Conversing with a Computer Increase Turnout? Mobilization Using Chatbot Communication.” Journal of Experimental Political Science.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
Mann, Christopher B. and Lisa A. Bryant. 2020. “If You Ask, They Will Come (to Register and Vote): Field Experiments with State Election Agencies on Encouraging Voter Registration.” Electoral Studies 63:102021.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
Mann, Christopher B., Paul Gronke and Natalie Adona. 2020. “Framing Automatic Voter Registration: Partisanship and Public Understanding of Automatic Voter Registration.” American Politics Research.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
Mann, Christopher B., Melissa R. Michelson and Matt Davis. 2020. “What is the impact of bilingual communication to mobilize Latinos? Exploratory evidence from experiments in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia.” Electoral Studies 65:102132.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
Mann, Christopher B., Kevin Arceneaux, and David W. Nickerson. 2019. “Do Negatively Framed Messages Motivate Political Participation? Evidence From Four Field Experiments.” American Politics Research.
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Related Blog Posts
– LSE American Politics & Policy Blog post
Stein, Robert M., Christopher B. Mann, Charles Stewart, et al. 2019. “Polling Place Quality and Access.” In The Future of Election Administration, edited by Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale and Bridgett A. King. Palgrave.
Stein, Robert M., Christopher B. Mann, Charles Stewart, et al. 2019. “Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-County Study.” Political Research Quarterly.
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Mann, Christopher B., Gayle A. Alberda, Nathaniel A. Birkhead, Yu Ouyang, Chloe Singer, Charles Stewart III, et al. 2018. “Pedagogical Value of Polling Place Observation By Students.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51(4): 831–37.
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Mann, Christopher B. and Genevieve Mayhew. 2015. “Voter Mobilization Meets eGovernment: Turnout and Voting by Mail from Online or Paper Ballot Requests”. Journal of Political Marketing 14(4): 352-380.
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Mann, Christopher B. and Casey A. Klofstad. 2015. “The Role of Call Quality in Voter Mobilization: Implications for Electoral Outcomes & Experimental Design”. Political Behavior 37(1): 135-154.
[Supplemental Materials] [Replication Data: Stata (with do file) | tab-delimited] [pre-publication version]
Atkinson, Matthew, Christopher B. Mann, Santiago Olivella, Arthur Simon, and Joseph Uscinski, 2014. “(Where) Do Campaigns Matter? The Impact of National Party Convention Location”. Journal of Politics 76(4):1045-1058
[Replication Data: R (with code file)] [pre-publication version]
Related Blog Posts
– Washington Post Monkey Cage (2016)
– LSE American Politics & Policy Blog (2016)
– Washington Post Monkey Cage (2019)
– Milwaukee NPR (WUWM) (2020)
Mann, Christopher B. 2014. “Mail Ballots in the United States: Policy Choice & Administrative Challenges” in The Measure of American Elections, edited by Barry Burden and Charles Stewart III. Cambridge University Press.
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Barber, Michael, Christopher B. Mann, J. Quin Monson, and Kelly Patterson. 2014. “Online Polls and Registration Based Sampling: A New Method for Pre-Election Polling”. Political Analysis 22(3): 321-335.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
Mann, Christopher B. 2010. “Is There Backlash to Social Pressure? A Large-scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization”. Political Behavior, 32:387-407.
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Davenport, Tiffany, Alan Gerber, Donald Green, Christopher S. Larimer, Christopher B. Mann and Costas Panagopolous. 2010. “The Enduring Effects of Social Pressure: Tracking Campaign Experiments over a Series of Elections”. Political Behavior, 32:423-430.
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Mann, Christopher B. 2005. “Do Advance Letters Improve Pre-election Forecast Accuracy?”. Public Opinion Quarterly, 69(4):561-571.
Mann, Christopher B. 2005. “Unintentional Voter Mobilization: Does Participation in Pre-election Surveys Increase Voter Turnout?”. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 601(1):155-168.
Mann, Christopher B. 2004. “Untangling Race and Institutions in Jefferson’s Thought: Blacks and Slavery, Indians and Natural Law”. Journal of Contemporary Thought, 19:43-82.
Other Scholarly Publications
Mann, Christopher B. 2019. “New evidence suggests that going negative does not motivate political action any more than positive messaging.” The LSE US Centre’s Blog on American Politics and Policy. August 05, 2019.
Mann, Christopher B. 2018. “Divided States of Mail Ballots.” MIT Election Lab (blog). August 27, 2018.
Mann, Christopher B., and Joseph Uscinski. 2016a. “Will the Cleveland Convention Help Trump Win Ohio? Probably Not.” Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog. July 25, 2016.
Mann, Christopher B., and Joseph E. Uscinski. 2016b. “Why Holding a Presidential Nominating Convention in a Swing State Matters.” The LSE US Centre’s Blog on American Politics and Policy. July 15, 2016.
Mann, Christopher B. 2011. “Looking Beyond Election Day: Voter Mobilization Experiments and Pre-Election Day Voting”. The Experimental Political Scientist (APSA Experimental Section newsletter), Fall 2011.
Mann, Christopher B. 2005. “Pre-Notification Letters”. In Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, edited by Samuel Best and Benjamin Radcliff. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Manuscripts under Peer Review
Connors, Elizbeth C., Yanna Krupnikov, Christopher B. Mann. “Too Much Information? Undermining Mobilization Efforts with Information Burden about the Voting Process”. Under review.