Welcome

I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan (PhD expected January 2009). My broad area of interest is voter behavior. More specifically, my research focuses on how strategic communication can affect voter turnout, as well as other forms of political participation.

Dissertation

My dissertation asks a question that has puzzled political science for more than a decade: Do negative advertisements affect voter turnout? I answer this question by focusing on a crucial variable that existing research has largely ignored: the timing of advertisement exposure. I use five different empirical tests to show that negative advertisements can be demobilizing only at a certain time in a campaign: after an individual has selected which candidate he prefers, but before an individual has had the chance to implement this selection with a vote.

Yanna Krupnikov grew up in Maine and earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Brandeis University and the University of Toronto.