Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere / æ n ˌ s ɒ l ə b ə ˈ h ɛər / is a professor of government at Harvard University . He is the younger brother of animator Joe Ansolabehere .
5-604: The Cooperative Election Study (abbreviated CES ) (formerly the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, abbreviated CCES) is a national online survey conducted before and after United States presidential and midterm elections. Originally designed by Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard University , it was originally fielded in 2006 by the Palo Alto , California -based company Polimetrix, Inc., with help from 39 different American universities. Its original goal
10-460: The University of California, Los Angeles ' department of political science. He became an associate professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, and Elting R. Morison Professor of Political Science there in 1998. He held this position from 1998 until joining the faculty of Harvard in 2008. Ansolabehere is known for his research on multiple aspects of elections in
15-546: The United States, including public opinion, mass media, and representation. In 2003, he published a paper arguing that in the United States, people and corporations tend to consider donating money to be an inefficient way of influencing politicians. The same paper argued that most people who donate to a politician do so because they genuinely support the politician's cause, and because donating to support their preferred politician makes them feel good, and that campaign spending as
20-536: The survey in November, most of which pertains to the election that had just happened. This article related to the politics of the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stephen Ansolabehere Ansolabehere received his B.A. in political science and B.S. in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1984, and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard in 1989. From 1989 to 1993, Ansolabehere served as an assistant professor in
25-445: Was to survey voters in the 2006 midterm elections . When it was begun, it was the largest survey of Congressional elections ever, with over 36,500 participants in its first wave alone. The pre-election phase of the CES involves administering the first two-thirds of the questionnaire from late September to late October. The post-election phase involves administering the remaining one-third of
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