Stephen Pettigrew
Biographic Data
| ID | 3717669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Pettigrew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettigrew |
| SIGNATURE | PETTIGREW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Overvotes, Overranks, and Skips: Mismarked and Rejected Votes in Ranked Choice Voting
Voters express their electoral preferences through their ballot. More states and local jurisdictions are adopting ranked choice voting (RCV), which affects how voter preferences are translated into electoral results by introducing a more complex ranked ballot and accompanying tabulation process. This research provides empirical estimates of rates of improper marking and vote rejection, and compares them to those rates on non-ranked offices (parti…
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout
Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election
Objective We analyze the significant increase in the residual vote rate in the 2016 presidential election. The residual vote rate, which is the percentage of ballots cast in a presidential election that contain no vote for president, rose nationwide from 0.99 to 1.41 percent between 2012 and 2016. Method We use election return data and public opinion data to examine why the residual vote rate increased in 2016. Results The primary explanation for…
The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials
Journal Article The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials Get access Stephen Pettigrew Stephen Pettigrew STEPHEN PETTIGREW is a graduate of Harvard University, receiving his PhD in political science in 2017. This article is part of a broader project that addresses problems with the administration of elections in the United States. His research has appeared in Science, Electoral Studies, The W…
Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”
A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716) attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the reproducibility of psychological science is surprisingly low. We show that this article contains three statistical errors and provides no support for such a conclusion. Indeed, the data are consistent with the opposite conclusion, namely, that the reproducibility of psychological science is quite…
Hosting the Olympic Games: An Overstated Advantage in Sports History
Previous research on the home advantage in the history of the Olympic Games has found initial evidence that host nations have won more medals than non-hosts. In this paper, we argue that these findings are a myth of sports history, providing poor estimates of the home advantage in the Olympics. We argue that selection bias accounts for the findings in previous work, which uses an empirical strategy of comparing host nations to all non-hosts and t…
Strategic politicians, partisan roll calls, and the Tea Party: Evaluating the 2010 midterm elections
The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials
Journal Article The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials Get access Stephen Pettigrew Stephen Pettigrew STEPHEN PETTIGREW is a graduate of Harvard University, receiving his PhD in political science in 2017. This article is part of a broader project that addresses problems with the administration of elections in the United States. His research has appeared in Science, Electoral Studies, The W…
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout
Strategic politicians, partisan roll calls, and the Tea Party: Evaluating the 2010 midterm elections
Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election
Objective We analyze the significant increase in the residual vote rate in the 2016 presidential election. The residual vote rate, which is the percentage of ballots cast in a presidential election that contain no vote for president, rose nationwide from 0.99 to 1.41 percent between 2012 and 2016. Method We use election return data and public opinion data to examine why the residual vote rate increased in 2016. Results The primary explanation for…
Overvotes, Overranks, and Skips: Mismarked and Rejected Votes in Ranked Choice Voting
Voters express their electoral preferences through their ballot. More states and local jurisdictions are adopting ranked choice voting (RCV), which affects how voter preferences are translated into electoral results by introducing a more complex ranked ballot and accompanying tabulation process. This research provides empirical estimates of rates of improper marking and vote rejection, and compares them to those rates on non-ranked offices (parti…
Hosting the Olympic Games: An Overstated Advantage in Sports History
Previous research on the home advantage in the history of the Olympic Games has found initial evidence that host nations have won more medals than non-hosts. In this paper, we argue that these findings are a myth of sports history, providing poor estimates of the home advantage in the Olympics. We argue that selection bias accounts for the findings in previous work, which uses an empirical strategy of comparing host nations to all non-hosts and t…
Strategic politicians, partisan roll calls, and the Tea Party: Evaluating the 2010 midterm elections
Comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”
A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716) attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the reproducibility of psychological science is surprisingly low. We show that this article contains three statistical errors and provides no support for such a conclusion. Indeed, the data are consistent with the opposite conclusion, namely, that the reproducibility of psychological science is quite…
Hosting the Olympic Games: An Overstated Advantage in Sports History
Previous research on the home advantage in the history of the Olympic Games has found initial evidence that host nations have won more medals than non-hosts. In this paper, we argue that these findings are a myth of sports history, providing poor estimates of the home advantage in the Olympics. We argue that selection bias accounts for the findings in previous work, which uses an empirical strategy of comparing host nations to all non-hosts and t…
The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials
Journal Article The Racial Gap in Wait Times: Why Minority Precincts Are Underserved by Local Election Officials Get access Stephen Pettigrew Stephen Pettigrew STEPHEN PETTIGREW is a graduate of Harvard University, receiving his PhD in political science in 2017. This article is part of a broader project that addresses problems with the administration of elections in the United States. His research has appeared in Science, Electoral Studies, The W…
Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election
Objective We analyze the significant increase in the residual vote rate in the 2016 presidential election. The residual vote rate, which is the percentage of ballots cast in a presidential election that contain no vote for president, rose nationwide from 0.99 to 1.41 percent between 2012 and 2016. Method We use election return data and public opinion data to examine why the residual vote rate increased in 2016. Results The primary explanation for…
The downstream consequences of long waits: How lines at the precinct depress future turnout
Overvotes, Overranks, and Skips: Mismarked and Rejected Votes in Ranked Choice Voting
Voters express their electoral preferences through their ballot. More states and local jurisdictions are adopting ranked choice voting (RCV), which affects how voter preferences are translated into electoral results by introducing a more complex ranked ballot and accompanying tabulation process. This research provides empirical estimates of rates of improper marking and vote rejection, and compares them to those rates on non-ranked offices (parti…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Voting (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (3 works)