Jack Santucci • Research

Book

Santucci, Jack. 2022. More Parties or No Parties: The Politics of Electoral Reform in America. New York: Oxford University Press. [Data. Reviews: Election Law Blog, FairVote, Perspectives on Politics.]

Journal articles (electoral systems)

Atkeson, Lonna Rae, Eli McKown-Dawson, Jack Santucci, and Kyle L. Saunders. 2024. "The Impact of Voter Confusion in Ranked Choice Voting." Social Science Quarterly, early version.
Anthony, Joseph, David C. Kimball, Jack Santucci, and Jamil Scott. 2023. "Support for Ranked Choice Voting across Party and Race: Results from a National Survey Experiment." Politics, Groups, and Identities, early version.
Santucci, Jack. 2021. "Variants of Ranked-choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective." Politics and Governance 9 (2): 344-353. — Documents five 'types' of ranked-choice voting, their effects on numerical minorities, and some reasons for their repeal in American history.
McCarthy, Devin and Jack Santucci. 2021. "Ranked-choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics." Politics and Policy 49 (1): 33-60. — Generational split on ranked-ballot reforms cuts across major-party and racial divides. Data from 2016 to 2018.
Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Maine Ranked-choice Voting as a Case of Electoral System Change." Representation 54 (3): 297-311. Awarded best paper for 2018. [Ungated] — The Alternative Vote finds favor where the majority cannot coordinate on one candidate but shares an opponent.
Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Evidence of a Winning-cohesion Tradeoff under Multi-winner Ranked-choice Voting." Electoral Studies 52: 128-138. [Ungated] — Majority-seeking parties in nonpartisan STV elections have an incentive to incorporate independent candidates.
Santucci, Jack. 2017. "Party Splits, not Progressives: The Origins of Proportional Representation in American Local Government." American Politics Research 45 (3): 494-526. — It takes a majority to pass nonpartisan STV at referendum. Historically, such majorities included ruling-party defectors and one or more minority parties.
Santucci, Jack. 2006. "The Missing Half: Ensuring Fair Representation in Post-merger Essex, Vermont." National Civic Review 95 (3): 42-50. — Evaluates options for electoral-system design in the context of a municipal merger.

Journal articles (voting behavior/parties)

Santucci, Jack and Joshua J. Dyck. 2022. "The Structure of American Political Discontent" (research note). Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (2): 381-392. — See POQ for replication.
Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Did the Party System Change from 2012-2016?" (research note). Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, early version. [Replication] — Some evidence that vote-switching came with greater intraparty divisions on attitudes toward redistribution.

Journal articles (research methodology)

Santucci, Jack. 2019. "Using Mixed Methods to Recover Electoral History: The American Path to Proportional Voting." SAGE Research Methods Cases (Part 2). — Tips on doing quantitative research on historic, local-level electoral reforms.

Book reviews

Santucci, Jack. 2021. "Electoral Capitalism: The Party System in New York’s Gilded Age. By Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 240p. $55.00 cloth.'' Perspectives on Politics.
Santucci, Jack. 2021. "The politics industry: How political innovation can break partisan gridlock and save our democracy. Gehl, Katherine M. and Porter, Michael E. Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, 2020. 316 pp. $30.00 (cloth)." Governance, early version. [Ungated]
Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Multiparty America?" The Journal of Politics 82 (4): e35-e39. [Ungated] — Electoral reform is coalition reshuffling, begins with the choice of reform partners, and, historically in the United States, has curtailed rights instead of expanding voting.