Reports on election administration from the Center for Election Innovative and Research
Becker, David J., Christopher B. Mann, and Shaniqua Williams. Forthcoming. “Innovations in Voting and Registration.” In The History of Voting in the United States, edited by Gilda Daniels. Cambridge University Press.
Haenschen, Katherine, Christopher B. Mann, and Stephanie L. DeMora. 2026. “The Effects of SMS Mobilization, Message, and Timing on Voter Turnout.” Political Behavior: 1-27.
Searles, Kathleen, Jessica Maki, and Christopher B. Mann. 2025. “U.S. Election Day Coverage of Voting Processes.” Political Communication: 42(2), 253–267.
Biberman, Yelena, and Christopher B Mann. 2024. “The Effects of State Presence on the Mental Mapping of Security: Evidence from an Experiment in Kashmir.” Journal of Peace Research: 00223433231220272.
Mann, Christopher B. 2024. “Using Mock Institutional Review Boards to Teach the Ethics of Experimental Research.” In Teaching Experimental Political Science, ed. Elizabeth A. Bennion, Edward Elgar Publishing, 194–211.
[Winner of 2025 American Political Science Association Best New Book in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning]
Mann, Christopher B., and Katherine Haenschen. 2024. “A Meta-Analysis of Voter Mobilization Tactics by Electoral Salience.” Electoral Studies 87: 102729.
Mann, Christopher B. 2021. “Can Conversing with a Computer Increase Turnout? Mobilization using Chatbot Communication.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 8(1): 51–62.
[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.
[Supplemental Information] [Replication Data] [pre-publication version]
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.
[pre-publication version]
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.
[Supplemental Materials] [pre-publication version]
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.
[pre-publication version]
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.
[pre-publication version]
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.
[pre-publication version]
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.