I’ve just returned from the European Political Science Association conference in Barcelona. One of the more interesting papers I saw was a study of the effect of polling on campaigns. In the paper, Philipp Denter and Dana Sisak note that dozens of democracies have bans on polling late in the campaign season. …
This variation allows us to examine the effect of polling on elections. [cont.]
Seth Masket (U. of Denver), Mischiefs of Faction