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Political Science Alum and Prof. Plutzer have Article Published

Political Science Alum and Prof. Plutzer have Article Published
Congratulations to Joe Phillips, Ph.D. alum, and Professor Eric Plutzer on their new article, “Reassessing the Effects of Emotions on Turnout,” forthcoming in the Journal of Politics. Using data from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy’s Mood of the Nation Poll, the authors find that some emotions–like worry–predicted turnout in the 2018 midterm election while others–such as enthusiasm–were not. The full article is available here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723816.