November 3, 2020 is a presidential election in the United States.  UNC students have authored many dissertations, masters theses and honors theses on the subjects of elections and voting in the United States, which are stored in the Carolina Digital Repository. Here are links for some of these student papers:

Dissertations

• Candidate Strategy and Assessment During Election Campaigns by Kevin K. Banda (2013).
• Direct Contact, Media Use, and Voting by Weiyang Joann Wong (2007).
• Education outcomes, party contacting, and change in party identification by David C. Kershaw (2009).
• The effect of context on third parties and third-party support in the United States by Adam Sander Chamberlain (2010).
• Incivility in Congressional Communication by Anthony Chergosky (2018).
• Normal Winners: The Strategies of Strong Candidates by Ellen Galantucci (2015).
• Partisan bias and competition: the effect of redistricting methods on state legislative elections by Jenna Ashley Robinson (2012).
• Understanding female candidates and campaigns for governor by Jason Harold Windett (2011).
• Voter Behavior in Elections without Party Labels by John Lappie (2015).
• Why Implicit Attitudes Predict Voting Among Undecided Voters: A Test of the Introspective Neglect Hypothesis by Kristjen Lundberg (2015).

Masters Theses

• Assessing the Causes and Effects of Electoral Volatility: Party System Fragmentation, Time, and Executive Turnover by Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (2008).
• Estimating the Ideology of Primary Electorates by Rachel Surminsky (2018)
• Expanding the Electorate: The Effects of Preregistration on Youth Turnout by Caroline Linnea Carlson (2019).
• Partisan or Quasi-Partisan? by John Peter Lappie (2012).
• The party in disservice: an ethnographic look at the Walter Dalton for North Carolina Governor campaign’s relationship with the Democratic Party by Leticia Nigro Mazon (2013).
• What’s the matter with the Republican Party?: factionalism in party primaries, 1976-2000 by Patrick Ryan Miller (2007).

Honors Theses

• An Analysis of the Effects of Election Day Voter Registration on Political Outcomes by Keenan Conder (2017).
• Campaign Financing and Ideology Post-Citizens United by Emma Giusto (2019).
• Flipping Districts: The Role of Major Party Organizations in Descriptive Representation by Miranda Cecil (2020).
• Impact of Immigrant Population Share and Candidate Ideology on Senate Republican Election Outcomes in U.S. Counties, 2010­-2016 by Zoe Hazerjian (2019).
• The Interaction Between Ranked-Choice Voting and Minority Voter Turnout in California Mayoral Elections by Sara Hall (2019).
• Judicial Elections and Their Implications in North Carolina by Samantha Hovaniec (2015).
• News-Related Social Media Use, Political Knowledge, and Participation in the 2016 Election by John Roberson (2019).
• Under the Influence?: Election Law and Redistributive Policy in the United States by Wesley Price (2020).
• A Woman’s Level: The Insight of Campaign Consultants on Female Candidates by Margaret Schneider (2015).

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