Lindsey Cormack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3799150 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lindsey Cormack |
| NOMBRES | Lindsey |
| APELLIDO | Cormack |
| FIRMA | CORMACK L |
| AFILIACIONES | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8464-1806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
More Chances, Fewer Problems? Revisiting Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City
As jurisdictions continue adopting ranked choice voting (RCV), understanding the system’s impact on voter efficacy remains important. In 2021, New York City implemented RCV for the first time in its municipal party primaries, and ballot-level data revealed that voters in lower-income and lower-education assembly districts had higher rates of ballot voiding due to overvote errors. This paper revisits that analysis using data from the 2025 Democrat…
Cross-Platform Partisan Positioning in Congressional Speech
Legislative activity—whether votes or communications—is often represented in a single partisan or ideological dimension. But as lawmakers communicate in various venues (e.g., traditional, direct, or social media), the extent to which these estimates are interchangeable—reflecting a common underlying dimension—is unclear. We estimate a partisan dimension in members’ tweets, Facebook posts, e-newsletters, press releases, and one-minute House floor …
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City
Examining the impacts of ranked choice voting (RCV) on voter efficacy is important as more areas consider adoption. The greater number of choices provided by longer RCV ballots may introduce opportunities for voters to misunderstand the ballot, make errant marks, or accidentally mark two or more candidates for one ranking, resulting in voidable ballots due to “overvoting.” Using ballot data from the 2013 general election, the 2017, and 2021 New Y…
Black lives matter messaging across multiple congressional communication mediums
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement had a second, large attention surge. Media focus intensified and public opinion of the movement was the most supportive it had ever been. Legislators got involved too, taking to their e-newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, and press releases to publicize support or opposition to the movement. Using those four mediums we ask which sorts of legislators were more or less l…
Conditional Congressional communication
Elected representatives have more means of public-facing communication at their disposal than ever before. Several studies examine how representatives use individual mediums, but we lack a baseline understanding of legislators’ relative use patterns across platforms. Using a novel data set of the four most widely used forms of written, constituent-facing communication (press releases, e-newsletters, Facebook posts, and Twitter tweets) by members …
Big Boys Don’t Cry
Why Women Earn High Marks
We present the results of a randomized survey experiment demonstrating that the public evaluates women politicians more highly than men across multiple characteristic assessments. This finding is consistent with a recent wave of research indicating greater preferences for women politicians. Which respondents rate women politicians more highly, and why? We find that women and younger voters do not account for the greater marks given to women polit…
Congressional Communication in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic touched every part of the United States. Government officials were tasked with communicating information to the public about a quickly changing crisis. This article aims to ask and answer important questions surrounding how differently situated legislators discussed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus of 2019 and resultant pandemic of COVID-19 with their constituents in official communications. We assess a theory of respon…
Angry about Fraud
Talk of fraud dominated President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and time in office. In this article, we explore whether members of Congress followed Trump’s lead in discussing all types of fraud, including electoral fraud as well as fraud, waste, and abuse. Using a unique dataset of the universe of congressional electronic newsletters from 2010 to 2021, we show that Republicans wrote to constituents about fraud much more than Democrats, especially a…
Strength in numbers
Objective Veterans are overrepresented in Congress, yet few studies focus on how veteran‐related outcomes are related to the veteran status of individual legislators and the size of veterans within a district. Methods Using a novel data set spanning from 2005 to 2017, I assess three measures of substantive representation: placement on a relevant committee, legislative effort, and communication efforts. Results Veterans in Congress are not more li…
Leveraging Peer‐to‐Peer Connections to Increase Voter Participation in Local Elections
In local elections, outcomes can turn on just hundreds of voters. Small‐scale political entrepreneurs find it increasingly difficult to wage effective turnout campaigns relying on traditional, costly methods of outreach. Yet a growing literature on social pressure indicates that recasting voting as a socially motivated act increases the likelihood that voters participate. In this article, I present matching analyses of the impact of a new platfor…
Extremity in Congress
I propose a theory of legislator‐to‐constituent communication that describes a relationship between the types of votes a legislator reveals and the partisan composition of her constituency. To test this theory, I use an original data set of 40,000 official communications containing 30,000 vote revelations from the 111th Congress. I find evidence substantiating this theory; the extent to which a legislator endeavors to appear more ideologically ex…
Gender and vote revelation strategy in the United States Congress
Legislators approach each election as if they might lose. Electoral insecurity coupled with gender stereotypes held by voters and lawmakers alike may lead female legislators to communicate more voting decisions to voters as a signal of their policy-driven efforts. Using an original data-set of over 40,000 official e-newsletters and Real Simple Syndication feeds sent by members of Congress, I show that women reveal more roll call votes to constitu…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Extremity in Congress
I propose a theory of legislator‐to‐constituent communication that describes a relationship between the types of votes a legislator reveals and the partisan composition of her constituency. To test this theory, I use an original data set of 40,000 official communications containing 30,000 vote revelations from the 111th Congress. I find evidence substantiating this theory; the extent to which a legislator endeavors to appear more ideologically ex…
Conditional Congressional communication
Elected representatives have more means of public-facing communication at their disposal than ever before. Several studies examine how representatives use individual mediums, but we lack a baseline understanding of legislators’ relative use patterns across platforms. Using a novel data set of the four most widely used forms of written, constituent-facing communication (press releases, e-newsletters, Facebook posts, and Twitter tweets) by members …
Cross-Platform Partisan Positioning in Congressional Speech
Legislative activity—whether votes or communications—is often represented in a single partisan or ideological dimension. But as lawmakers communicate in various venues (e.g., traditional, direct, or social media), the extent to which these estimates are interchangeable—reflecting a common underlying dimension—is unclear. We estimate a partisan dimension in members’ tweets, Facebook posts, e-newsletters, press releases, and one-minute House floor …
Big Boys Don’t Cry
Why Women Earn High Marks
We present the results of a randomized survey experiment demonstrating that the public evaluates women politicians more highly than men across multiple characteristic assessments. This finding is consistent with a recent wave of research indicating greater preferences for women politicians. Which respondents rate women politicians more highly, and why? We find that women and younger voters do not account for the greater marks given to women polit…
Gender and vote revelation strategy in the United States Congress
Legislators approach each election as if they might lose. Electoral insecurity coupled with gender stereotypes held by voters and lawmakers alike may lead female legislators to communicate more voting decisions to voters as a signal of their policy-driven efforts. Using an original data-set of over 40,000 official e-newsletters and Real Simple Syndication feeds sent by members of Congress, I show that women reveal more roll call votes to constitu…
Congressional Communication in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic touched every part of the United States. Government officials were tasked with communicating information to the public about a quickly changing crisis. This article aims to ask and answer important questions surrounding how differently situated legislators discussed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus of 2019 and resultant pandemic of COVID-19 with their constituents in official communications. We assess a theory of respon…
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City
Examining the impacts of ranked choice voting (RCV) on voter efficacy is important as more areas consider adoption. The greater number of choices provided by longer RCV ballots may introduce opportunities for voters to misunderstand the ballot, make errant marks, or accidentally mark two or more candidates for one ranking, resulting in voidable ballots due to “overvoting.” Using ballot data from the 2013 general election, the 2017, and 2021 New Y…
Black lives matter messaging across multiple congressional communication mediums
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement had a second, large attention surge. Media focus intensified and public opinion of the movement was the most supportive it had ever been. Legislators got involved too, taking to their e-newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, and press releases to publicize support or opposition to the movement. Using those four mediums we ask which sorts of legislators were more or less l…
Strength in numbers
Objective Veterans are overrepresented in Congress, yet few studies focus on how veteran‐related outcomes are related to the veteran status of individual legislators and the size of veterans within a district. Methods Using a novel data set spanning from 2005 to 2017, I assess three measures of substantive representation: placement on a relevant committee, legislative effort, and communication efforts. Results Veterans in Congress are not more li…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Extremity in Congress
I propose a theory of legislator‐to‐constituent communication that describes a relationship between the types of votes a legislator reveals and the partisan composition of her constituency. To test this theory, I use an original data set of 40,000 official communications containing 30,000 vote revelations from the 111th Congress. I find evidence substantiating this theory; the extent to which a legislator endeavors to appear more ideologically ex…
Gender and vote revelation strategy in the United States Congress
Legislators approach each election as if they might lose. Electoral insecurity coupled with gender stereotypes held by voters and lawmakers alike may lead female legislators to communicate more voting decisions to voters as a signal of their policy-driven efforts. Using an original data-set of over 40,000 official e-newsletters and Real Simple Syndication feeds sent by members of Congress, I show that women reveal more roll call votes to constitu…
Leveraging Peer‐to‐Peer Connections to Increase Voter Participation in Local Elections
In local elections, outcomes can turn on just hundreds of voters. Small‐scale political entrepreneurs find it increasingly difficult to wage effective turnout campaigns relying on traditional, costly methods of outreach. Yet a growing literature on social pressure indicates that recasting voting as a socially motivated act increases the likelihood that voters participate. In this article, I present matching analyses of the impact of a new platfor…
Angry about Fraud
Talk of fraud dominated President Donald J. Trump’s campaign and time in office. In this article, we explore whether members of Congress followed Trump’s lead in discussing all types of fraud, including electoral fraud as well as fraud, waste, and abuse. Using a unique dataset of the universe of congressional electronic newsletters from 2010 to 2021, we show that Republicans wrote to constituents about fraud much more than Democrats, especially a…
Strength in numbers
Objective Veterans are overrepresented in Congress, yet few studies focus on how veteran‐related outcomes are related to the veteran status of individual legislators and the size of veterans within a district. Methods Using a novel data set spanning from 2005 to 2017, I assess three measures of substantive representation: placement on a relevant committee, legislative effort, and communication efforts. Results Veterans in Congress are not more li…
Why Women Earn High Marks
We present the results of a randomized survey experiment demonstrating that the public evaluates women politicians more highly than men across multiple characteristic assessments. This finding is consistent with a recent wave of research indicating greater preferences for women politicians. Which respondents rate women politicians more highly, and why? We find that women and younger voters do not account for the greater marks given to women polit…
Congressional Communication in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic touched every part of the United States. Government officials were tasked with communicating information to the public about a quickly changing crisis. This article aims to ask and answer important questions surrounding how differently situated legislators discussed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus of 2019 and resultant pandemic of COVID-19 with their constituents in official communications. We assess a theory of respon…
Black lives matter messaging across multiple congressional communication mediums
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement had a second, large attention surge. Media focus intensified and public opinion of the movement was the most supportive it had ever been. Legislators got involved too, taking to their e-newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, and press releases to publicize support or opposition to the movement. Using those four mediums we ask which sorts of legislators were more or less l…
Conditional Congressional communication
Elected representatives have more means of public-facing communication at their disposal than ever before. Several studies examine how representatives use individual mediums, but we lack a baseline understanding of legislators’ relative use patterns across platforms. Using a novel data set of the four most widely used forms of written, constituent-facing communication (press releases, e-newsletters, Facebook posts, and Twitter tweets) by members …
Big Boys Don’t Cry
Cross-Platform Partisan Positioning in Congressional Speech
Legislative activity—whether votes or communications—is often represented in a single partisan or ideological dimension. But as lawmakers communicate in various venues (e.g., traditional, direct, or social media), the extent to which these estimates are interchangeable—reflecting a common underlying dimension—is unclear. We estimate a partisan dimension in members’ tweets, Facebook posts, e-newsletters, press releases, and one-minute House floor …
More Choices, More Problems? Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City
Examining the impacts of ranked choice voting (RCV) on voter efficacy is important as more areas consider adoption. The greater number of choices provided by longer RCV ballots may introduce opportunities for voters to misunderstand the ballot, make errant marks, or accidentally mark two or more candidates for one ranking, resulting in voidable ballots due to “overvoting.” Using ballot data from the 2013 general election, the 2017, and 2021 New Y…
More Chances, Fewer Problems? Revisiting Ranked Choice Voting Errors in New York City
As jurisdictions continue adopting ranked choice voting (RCV), understanding the system’s impact on voter efficacy remains important. In 2021, New York City implemented RCV for the first time in its municipal party primaries, and ballot-level data revealed that voters in lower-income and lower-education assembly districts had higher rates of ballot voiding due to overvote errors. This paper revisits that analysis using data from the 2025 Democrat…
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