Stephen Ansolabehere, Ph.D.

Stephen Ansolabehere, Ph.D. Civility and Voting Technology in Democracy - "Making Every Vote Count"

Stephen Ansolabehere, Ph.D., Elting R. Morison Professor in the Department of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies elections, democracy, and the mass media.

He is coauthor of "The Media Game" and "Going Negative: How Political Advertising Alienates and Polarizes the American Electorate." His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Politics, The Journal of
Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Quill, and Chance. His current research projects include campaign finance, congressional elections, and party politics.

Professor Ansolabehere is also a member of the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project, which was established in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Tasks of the project include evaluating
the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems, establishing uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance and reliability of voting systems, and proposing specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems.

"Let us be silent – so we may hear the whisper of the gods."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson