Enrijeta Shino
Biographic Data
| ID | 179591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enrijeta Shino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enrijeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Shino |
| SIGNATURE | SHINO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1941-8012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Leader-Motivated Behavior: Voting by Mail in the 2020 General Election
There is a large body of scholarship that probes the association of elite messaging and motivated reasoning with political behavior. Few studies, though, consider how these factors relate to validated mass behavior. Leveraging two national surveys, we assess voter alignment with President Trump and who voted by mail (VBM). Drawing on 2016 and 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES) data, we analyze the likelihood that Trump supporters: (1) voted by…
Validating Vote-by-Mail Ballots: The Subjective Nature of Signature Verification
Vote-by-mail (VBM) is an established electoral practice across the United States. Millions of voters cast VBM ballots every election, but roughly one percent of them are rejected by local election officials, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Although scholars have examined a variety of issues associated with mail voting, including postal delays and signature deficiencies, few studies have probed the subjectiv…
The power of the leader: Party approval and institutional trust
Unprecedented in American politics, several Republican US Representatives, supported by former President Trump, led a motion in the House to remove the Speaker, providing an ideal case for understanding a strong leader’s control over the party base, conflation with the party brand, and ramifications for the health of the US party system. Leveraging this unique event, we conducted an original survey experiment of registered Republican voters to an…
Vote Method and Confidence in Elections
Might voters’ experience with how they cast ballots affect their confidence in votes being accurately counted? We analyze how vote modality shapes voters’ confidence in the accuracy of the vote count, particularly when one method of voting is called into question to challenge the legitimacy of an election. Drawing on a large panel survey of validated voters conducted before and after the 2020 General Election, we find that voters in Florida who v…
Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters
For decades, in most states with a party registration option, the percentage of voters registering as unaffiliated with a major political party has steadily increased. But who are these registered voters in these polarized partisan times, and why might they register without a major party? We address these questions by drawing on parallel large-N original surveys of registered voters in two southeastern states experiencing a notable rise in regist…
Voter habituation and opinion activation in misreporting voting behavior in the 2020 presidential election
Pre-election surveys are commonly used to predict turnout and vote choice, but anticipating who votes is challenging. Often survey respondents do not truthfully report their behavior and specifically overreport socially desirable actions like voting. In this study, we analyze factors influencing misreporting voting and vote method in a pre-election web survey of registered voters in the 2020 presidential election. More specifically, we test how v…
Campus Voting During the Covid-19 Pandemic
How did the pandemic impact turnout of young voters living in university communities? Leveraging the mandatory vacating of Florida college students living on campuses and drawing on administrative data from Florida’s voter file, we argue that on-campus registered young voters who had to leave their university housing in the days prior to Florida’s 2020 Presidential Preference Primary (PPP) were less likely to turn out compared to adjacent off-cam…
The changing South in presidential elections
We examine presidential elections in the American South. Our empirical starting point is the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama. We discuss political dynamics leading up to this historic contest but focus our analysis on the last four elections concluding with the defeat of President Trump in 2020. Tapping into recent southern politics scholarship emphasizing partisan patterns that differ based on population growth (or lack thereof), we show …
The fall of Trump: Mobilization and Vote Switching in the 2020 Presidential Election
Voters use salient issues to inform their vote choice. Using 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES) data, we analyze how short-, medium-, and long-term issues informed the vote for president in the 2020 election, which witnessed record-setting participation. To explain the dynamics of presidential vote choice, we employ a voter typology advanced by Key (1966). Specifically, compared to standpatters, who in 2020 registered the same major party vote…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method
Might elite cues affect how we vote? Extant literature focuses on effects of elite cues on candidate evaluation or policy preference, but we know little about how they might affect vote method preferences. Drawing on a large survey of validated Florida voters, including those who regularly vote by mail, we find that retrospective and prospective misreporting of vote method prior to the 2020 General Election was driven primarily by support for Tru…
Determinants of Rejected Mail Ballots in Georgia’s 2018 General Election
Because of the COVID-19 threat to in-person voting in the November 2020 election, state and local election officials have pivoted to mail-in voting as a potential solution. This method of voting—while safe from a public health standpoint—comes with its own set of problems, as increased use of mail voting risks amplifying existing discrepancies in rejected mail ballots. While some mail ballot rejections are to be expected, a lack of uniformity in …
Election Administration and Public Records Responsiveness
Is there an optimum method to elicit public records from election officials? Using a field experiment that randomly assigned the wording and email domains used to solicit public records, we test how county election offices respond to requests under given conditions. We find that the response rates of Florida’s 67 Supervisors of Elections (SOE) to a request for election administration data and election protocols after the 2018 General Election var…
John B. Holbein and D. Sunshine Hillygus. Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action
In Making Young Voters, Holbein and Hillygus revisit one of the foundational questions in the political participation literature: Why do so many politically motivated young people fail to participate in elections? Differing from previous literature, Holbein and Hillygus argue that political motivation is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stimulate participation. They challenge the widely used theory that young voters do not vote because…
The Different Faces of Public Opinion: Is the American Voter Tinted by Mode
Declining response rates and increasing costs of collecting public opinion survey data have led to an increasing usage of dual-mode surveys. Revisiting foundational theories of political knowledge, issue constraint, and issue voting, we gauge the theoretical implications this methodological change has in our understanding of the public opinion and voter behavior. We see different patterns in the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies an…
Defying the Rally During Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Objective: Do people set aside their partisan differences and rally around elected officials during a pandemic? President Trump's delegation of responsibility to the states during the COVID-19 pandemic placed governors on the frontlines of the battle; some have shined and garnered positive national attention, others have wilted under the pressure of the national spotlight. Methods: We use regression discontinuity design and exploit a discontinuit…
Telephone Survey Calling Patterns, Productivity, Survey Responses, and Their Effect on Measuring Public Opinion
This study examines the effect of telephone survey dialing patterns on lab productivity and survey responses. Using an original data set of paradata from 2010 to 2017 and a machine learning technique for variable selection, we find that early and late afternoon shifts are as productive as late evening shifts for both landline and cellphone Random Digit Dialing (RDD) samples. Also, early weekdays are more productive than the weekend for the cellph…
Verifying Voter Registration Records: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
This study investigates the reliability of Florida’s voter registration files through a phone survey, asking respondents to verify their records. We find 17.7% of registrants fail to verify at least one identifying piece of information. Applying the total survey error (TSE) framework, we classify these errors as due to coverage error, measurement error, or processing error. These inconsistencies create election administration and campaign ineffic…
Timing the habit: Voter registration and turnout
Timing the habit: Voter registration and turnout
Determinants of Rejected Mail Ballots in Georgia’s 2018 General Election
Because of the COVID-19 threat to in-person voting in the November 2020 election, state and local election officials have pivoted to mail-in voting as a potential solution. This method of voting—while safe from a public health standpoint—comes with its own set of problems, as increased use of mail voting risks amplifying existing discrepancies in rejected mail ballots. While some mail ballot rejections are to be expected, a lack of uniformity in …
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method
Might elite cues affect how we vote? Extant literature focuses on effects of elite cues on candidate evaluation or policy preference, but we know little about how they might affect vote method preferences. Drawing on a large survey of validated Florida voters, including those who regularly vote by mail, we find that retrospective and prospective misreporting of vote method prior to the 2020 General Election was driven primarily by support for Tru…
Verifying Voter Registration Records: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
This study investigates the reliability of Florida’s voter registration files through a phone survey, asking respondents to verify their records. We find 17.7% of registrants fail to verify at least one identifying piece of information. Applying the total survey error (TSE) framework, we classify these errors as due to coverage error, measurement error, or processing error. These inconsistencies create election administration and campaign ineffic…
The fall of Trump: Mobilization and Vote Switching in the 2020 Presidential Election
Voters use salient issues to inform their vote choice. Using 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES) data, we analyze how short-, medium-, and long-term issues informed the vote for president in the 2020 election, which witnessed record-setting participation. To explain the dynamics of presidential vote choice, we employ a voter typology advanced by Key (1966). Specifically, compared to standpatters, who in 2020 registered the same major party vote…
Defying the Rally During Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Objective: Do people set aside their partisan differences and rally around elected officials during a pandemic? President Trump's delegation of responsibility to the states during the COVID-19 pandemic placed governors on the frontlines of the battle; some have shined and garnered positive national attention, others have wilted under the pressure of the national spotlight. Methods: We use regression discontinuity design and exploit a discontinuit…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters
For decades, in most states with a party registration option, the percentage of voters registering as unaffiliated with a major political party has steadily increased. But who are these registered voters in these polarized partisan times, and why might they register without a major party? We address these questions by drawing on parallel large-N original surveys of registered voters in two southeastern states experiencing a notable rise in regist…
The Different Faces of Public Opinion: Is the American Voter Tinted by Mode
Declining response rates and increasing costs of collecting public opinion survey data have led to an increasing usage of dual-mode surveys. Revisiting foundational theories of political knowledge, issue constraint, and issue voting, we gauge the theoretical implications this methodological change has in our understanding of the public opinion and voter behavior. We see different patterns in the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies an…
Timing the habit: Voter registration and turnout
Defying the Rally During Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Objective: Do people set aside their partisan differences and rally around elected officials during a pandemic? President Trump's delegation of responsibility to the states during the COVID-19 pandemic placed governors on the frontlines of the battle; some have shined and garnered positive national attention, others have wilted under the pressure of the national spotlight. Methods: We use regression discontinuity design and exploit a discontinuit…
Telephone Survey Calling Patterns, Productivity, Survey Responses, and Their Effect on Measuring Public Opinion
This study examines the effect of telephone survey dialing patterns on lab productivity and survey responses. Using an original data set of paradata from 2010 to 2017 and a machine learning technique for variable selection, we find that early and late afternoon shifts are as productive as late evening shifts for both landline and cellphone Random Digit Dialing (RDD) samples. Also, early weekdays are more productive than the weekend for the cellph…
Verifying Voter Registration Records: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
This study investigates the reliability of Florida’s voter registration files through a phone survey, asking respondents to verify their records. We find 17.7% of registrants fail to verify at least one identifying piece of information. Applying the total survey error (TSE) framework, we classify these errors as due to coverage error, measurement error, or processing error. These inconsistencies create election administration and campaign ineffic…
John B. Holbein and D. Sunshine Hillygus. Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action
In Making Young Voters, Holbein and Hillygus revisit one of the foundational questions in the political participation literature: Why do so many politically motivated young people fail to participate in elections? Differing from previous literature, Holbein and Hillygus argue that political motivation is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stimulate participation. They challenge the widely used theory that young voters do not vote because…
The Different Faces of Public Opinion: Is the American Voter Tinted by Mode
Declining response rates and increasing costs of collecting public opinion survey data have led to an increasing usage of dual-mode surveys. Revisiting foundational theories of political knowledge, issue constraint, and issue voting, we gauge the theoretical implications this methodological change has in our understanding of the public opinion and voter behavior. We see different patterns in the 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies an…
Determinants of Rejected Mail Ballots in Georgia’s 2018 General Election
Because of the COVID-19 threat to in-person voting in the November 2020 election, state and local election officials have pivoted to mail-in voting as a potential solution. This method of voting—while safe from a public health standpoint—comes with its own set of problems, as increased use of mail voting risks amplifying existing discrepancies in rejected mail ballots. While some mail ballot rejections are to be expected, a lack of uniformity in …
Election Administration and Public Records Responsiveness
Is there an optimum method to elicit public records from election officials? Using a field experiment that randomly assigned the wording and email domains used to solicit public records, we test how county election offices respond to requests under given conditions. We find that the response rates of Florida’s 67 Supervisors of Elections (SOE) to a request for election administration data and election protocols after the 2018 General Election var…
Lying for Trump? Elite Cue-Taking and Expressive Responding on Vote Method
Might elite cues affect how we vote? Extant literature focuses on effects of elite cues on candidate evaluation or policy preference, but we know little about how they might affect vote method preferences. Drawing on a large survey of validated Florida voters, including those who regularly vote by mail, we find that retrospective and prospective misreporting of vote method prior to the 2020 General Election was driven primarily by support for Tru…
Campus Voting During the Covid-19 Pandemic
How did the pandemic impact turnout of young voters living in university communities? Leveraging the mandatory vacating of Florida college students living on campuses and drawing on administrative data from Florida’s voter file, we argue that on-campus registered young voters who had to leave their university housing in the days prior to Florida’s 2020 Presidential Preference Primary (PPP) were less likely to turn out compared to adjacent off-cam…
The changing South in presidential elections
We examine presidential elections in the American South. Our empirical starting point is the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama. We discuss political dynamics leading up to this historic contest but focus our analysis on the last four elections concluding with the defeat of President Trump in 2020. Tapping into recent southern politics scholarship emphasizing partisan patterns that differ based on population growth (or lack thereof), we show …
The fall of Trump: Mobilization and Vote Switching in the 2020 Presidential Election
Voters use salient issues to inform their vote choice. Using 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES) data, we analyze how short-, medium-, and long-term issues informed the vote for president in the 2020 election, which witnessed record-setting participation. To explain the dynamics of presidential vote choice, we employ a voter typology advanced by Key (1966). Specifically, compared to standpatters, who in 2020 registered the same major party vote…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
The power of the leader: Party approval and institutional trust
Unprecedented in American politics, several Republican US Representatives, supported by former President Trump, led a motion in the House to remove the Speaker, providing an ideal case for understanding a strong leader’s control over the party base, conflation with the party brand, and ramifications for the health of the US party system. Leveraging this unique event, we conducted an original survey experiment of registered Republican voters to an…
Vote Method and Confidence in Elections
Might voters’ experience with how they cast ballots affect their confidence in votes being accurately counted? We analyze how vote modality shapes voters’ confidence in the accuracy of the vote count, particularly when one method of voting is called into question to challenge the legitimacy of an election. Drawing on a large panel survey of validated voters conducted before and after the 2020 General Election, we find that voters in Florida who v…
Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters
For decades, in most states with a party registration option, the percentage of voters registering as unaffiliated with a major political party has steadily increased. But who are these registered voters in these polarized partisan times, and why might they register without a major party? We address these questions by drawing on parallel large-N original surveys of registered voters in two southeastern states experiencing a notable rise in regist…
Voter habituation and opinion activation in misreporting voting behavior in the 2020 presidential election
Pre-election surveys are commonly used to predict turnout and vote choice, but anticipating who votes is challenging. Often survey respondents do not truthfully report their behavior and specifically overreport socially desirable actions like voting. In this study, we analyze factors influencing misreporting voting and vote method in a pre-election web survey of registered voters in the 2020 presidential election. More specifically, we test how v…
Leader-Motivated Behavior: Voting by Mail in the 2020 General Election
There is a large body of scholarship that probes the association of elite messaging and motivated reasoning with political behavior. Few studies, though, consider how these factors relate to validated mass behavior. Leveraging two national surveys, we assess voter alignment with President Trump and who voted by mail (VBM). Drawing on 2016 and 2020 Cooperative Election Study (CES) data, we analyze the likelihood that Trump supporters: (1) voted by…
Validating Vote-by-Mail Ballots: The Subjective Nature of Signature Verification
Vote-by-mail (VBM) is an established electoral practice across the United States. Millions of voters cast VBM ballots every election, but roughly one percent of them are rejected by local election officials, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Although scholars have examined a variety of issues associated with mail voting, including postal delays and signature deficiencies, few studies have probed the subjectiv…
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