Jack Santucci • Research

This page is divided into thematic sections:

GitHub repositories for some of these projects are available here.

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. — Arguments about the effects of electoral systems influence public preferences more than descriptions of those systems' properties. Replication available from lead author.
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 in data from 2016-18. Replication available from lead author.
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. Replication available on request.
Santucci, Jack. 2017. "Party Splits, not Progressives: The Origins of Proportional Representation in American Local Government." American Politics Research 45 (3): 494-526. — Documents the role of cross-party coalitions in U.S. adoptions of the single transferable vote. Replication available on request.

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. — Exit-poll data from Santa Fe (2018) show that an appreciable share of respondents report confusion, lower voter confidence, and less support for the reform. Replication on website.
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 conditional effects on numerical minorities, and some reasons for their repeal in American history. Replication not applicable.
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. Replication available on request.
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. Replication not applicable.

Santucci, Jack and Joshua J. Dyck. 2022. "The Structure of American Political Discontent" (research note). Public Opinion Quarterly 86 (2): 381-392. — A 'system' or 'anti-institutional' dimension crosscut the party system as of 2016, consistent with observable implications of one theory of populism. Replication on website.
Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Did the Party System Change from 2012-2016?" (research note). Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, early version. — Confirms observable implications of the spatial perspective on party-coalition change. Replication on website.

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. Replication not applicable.

Last updated 2024-10-04.