PPE Salon: How Do You Win an Election?

More information forthcoming!

Required Reading:

• “Most Americans are moderates”: This idea undergirds a lot of my work and I think is the key to figuring out how to win elections. Political elites are almost always very ideological people and there is a strong incentive to talk yourself into thinking that every one else shares your policy preferences deep down. But that just isn’t true! By Milan Singh.
•  “Racial Equality Frames and Public Policy Support: Survey Experimental Evidence”: This research relates very directly to how to persuade voters and finds that framing things around race decreases support among all racial groups. By Josh Kalla and Micah English.
• “What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries?”: This is one of the papers cited in Singh’s piece and finds that extreme candidates galvanize the other party and thus suffer an electoral penalty. Hall has some great insights on the drivers of extremism in his book. By Andrew B. Hall.