@EllieNeffPowell

Associate Professor of Political Science. Researching: Congress, Parties, and Money in Politics

 Madison, WI
eleanorneffpowell.com/
Joined September 2011
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We're hosting the fifth annual Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior here at @UWMadison in May 2027! Submit your paper & poster proposals by December 1st. (And yes ... the snow will have melted by mid-May!)
Barry Burden@bcburdenOct 13
The fifth annual EPOVB conference will take place @UWMadison on May 13-14, 2027! Please submit your paper & poster proposals by the Dec 1 deadline. Supported by @epovb & @ElectionsCenter The proposal form & conference information are available here: elections.wisc.edu/epovb27/
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Thrilled to finally see this one in print in the latest issue of AJPS! Some projects are long and complicated, especially ones like this when the data collection involves filing hundreds of FOIA requests. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

When elected officials gain power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect policy? The answer informs debates over how legislator capacity, term limits, and institutional...

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Want to know more? Devin Judge-Lord, Rochelle Snyder, and I are finishing a book based on even more of this same data: Interbranch Representation: How Legislators Advocate for Constituents to the Executive Branch. Stay tuned!
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Nerd achievement unlocked. ✅ Growing up watching the PBS Newshour, last night's interview was a pinch-me moment. We discussed Congress's history with missing votes — and my research on abstention. (Not everything made the cut — but my cameo survived.) 🎥 pbs.org/newshour/show/republ…

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s absence raises broader questions about Congress

Primary voters in New Jersey on Tuesday finalized the race for one of the nation’s most competitive seats, and one of the most unusual, because the incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has not been...

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How does power change what legislators do? New research from ERC affiliate @EllieNeffPowell and coauthors shows that as lawmakers gain power, they shift toward policy, while maintaining their level of constituent service as a result of greater capacity. 🔗tinyurl.com/a988rhdh
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Thrilled to share that my paper with Devin Judge-Lord and @JustinGrimmer "How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies" is out at the AJPS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

When elected officials gain power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect policy? The answer informs debates over how legislator capacity, term limits, and institutional...

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We find that legislators prioritize policy work as they gain institutional power, but simultaneously maintain their levels of constituency service. Moreover, when a new legislator replaces an experienced one, the district receives less constituency service & less policy work.
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Rather than long-serving and powerful elected officials diverting attention from constituents, their increased capacity enables them to maintain levels of constituency service, even as they prioritize policy work.
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Looking for a great RA for the 2025-2026 academic year? I know a smart senior double-majoring in Poli Sci & Data Science who wants to RA for a year before starting her Ph.D. Python and R skills & interested in Amer & Comp -- Elections, Voting Behavior & Political Parties!
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2024 Election Symposium was a treat as always. Grateful for the opportunity to share @EllieNeffPowell and I’s first look at corporate lobbying on the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. @ElectionsCenter
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So great to have @vavreck here for @ElectionsCenter @uwmadison! Finds: identity-inflected policies shaping the political landscape. Harder to compromise about identity issues rather than economic issues. Argues big shift happened in *2016*. Gradual (tectonic shifts) earlier.
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So great to have NPR's @FrancoOrdonez here at the @ElectionsCenter 2024 Election Symposium @UWMadison sharing his insights from the campaign trail on the 2024 election!
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Prof. Bernard Fraga @blfraga presenting "Shifting Right or Sitting Out? Black & Latino Voters: 2016-2024." Shows very large shift to GOP by Black men, continued shift to GOP by Latinos & Latinas. Some evidence of Democrats' base staying home in 2024. #ERC2024ElectionSymposium
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The American Mosaic project examines Americans' social identities & vote choice and reveals Democratic and Republican voters have more of these identities in common than they realize, @b_schaffner shows at #2024ElectionSymposium ➡️go.wisc.edu/xyus4r
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Today's my favorite post-election tradition! The @ElectionsCenter @UWMadison hosting our Election Symposium! We have an all-star panel of: @PollsAndVotes @vavreck @b_schaffner @FrancoOrdonez @blfraga @bcburden elections.wisc.edu/2024sympo…
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Relevant portion of their weighting description:
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Full polling methodology at the end: nytimes.com/interactive/2024…

Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in the 2024 Battlegrounds...

Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 7,879 likely voters in the 2024 battleground states from Oct. 24 to Nov. 2, 2024.

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I spent some time this morning diving into the admirably detailed polling methods for the NYT/Siena poll to understand how they weight on party in states like WI that don't have party reg and don't record which party primary you participated in.
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They say "classification based on a model of vote choice in prior Times/Siena polls) by whether the respondent’s race is modeled as white or nonwhite (L2 model)." What does that mean in a predominantly white state like Wisconsin???
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