Stephen Ansolabehere

Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts

Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University.  He is an expert on U. S. elections and voting behavior, and has written extensively on electoral competition, public opinion, media, political parties, election law and administration, and voting rights. He also researches energy policy and politics. He is the Principal Investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, a consortium of over 50 different university research teams, which conducts large-scale public opinion studies in the United States. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. He is a Truman Scholar, a Carnegie Scholar, and a Hoover National Fellow. In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.