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Chris Tausanovitch

University of California - Los Angeles
Verified email at ucla.edu
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Representation in municipal government

C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - American Political Science Review, 2014 - cambridge.org
… A full list of questions used on the ICMA survey is provided in Appendix C, and the estimates
themselves are available from the authors. We generate three other city policy measures …

Measuring constituent policy preferences in congress, state legislatures, and cities

C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - The Journal of Politics, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Little is known about the American public’s policy preferences at the level of Congressional
districts, state legislative districts, and local municipalities. In this article, we overcome the …

Partisan gerrymandering and the political process: Effects on roll-call voting and state policies

…, C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - Election Law Journal …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Recent scholarship has documented the advantages of a new measure of partisan gerrymandering:
the difference in the parties' wasted votes, divided by the total number of votes cast. …

A disconnect in representation? Comparison of trends in congressional and public polarization

SJ Hill, C Tausanovitch - The Journal of Politics, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
While it is widely agreed that Congress has polarized over the past 40 years, there is
considerable disagreement about the extent of public polarization and its connection to …

Moderates

…, C Tausanovitch, L Vavreck, C Warshaw - American Political …, 2023 - cambridge.org
… In Appendix C, we generalize this minimum wage analysis using all question pairs in a
dataset with 133 policy questions. Second, we use questions not included in our estimation to …

Estimating candidates' political orientation in a polarized congress

C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - Political Analysis, 2017 - cambridge.org
c In our evaluation, we focus on the estimates from Ramey (2016), which uses 109,935
survey responses from 2010 and 2012 to estimate the positions of House and Senate candidates…

Does the ideological proximity between candidates and voters affect voting in US house elections?

C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - Political Behavior, 2018 - Springer
Do citizens hold congressional candidates accountable for their policy positions? Recent
studies reach different conclusions on this important question. In line with the predictions of …

On the representativeness of primary electorates

…, C Tausanovitch, L Vavreck, C Warshaw - British Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Primary voters are frequently characterized as an ideologically extreme subset of their party,
and thus partially responsible for party polarization in government. This study uses a …

Geography, uncertainty, and polarization

…, B Shor, C Tausanovitch, C Warshaw - … Science Research and …, 2019 - cambridge.org
… voter in each district using the approach described in Tausanovitch and Warshaw (2013). …
In Supplementary Appendices C and D, we show substantively similar findings in both state …

[PDF][PDF] Democracy fund+ UCLA nationscape methodology and representativeness assessment

C Tausanovitch, L Vavreck, T Reny… - … Fund Voter Study …, 2019 - voterstudygroup.org
In this report, we explain the methodology of Nationscape and the procedures used to estimate
population quantities. We evaluate the representativeness of Nationscape by replicating …