The Center is committed to conducting non-biased research on issues of public and community concern as a foundation to understanding how government policies are created and executed.
This research, combined with faculty guidance and ambitious hands-on experiences, affords our students the opportunity to gain practical ‘real world’ experience while making a valuable contribution back to the community at-large. Research areas include but are not limited to:
December 2008 Analysis of 'Straight Ticket' Voting 1998-2008 This statistical study includes continued analysis of straight ticket voting in Texas elections from 1998-2008. How did (or did they?) the huge increases in voter registrations affect the straight ticket vote? Did the 2006 voting trend continue?
May 2007 – Analysis of ‘Straight Ticket’ Voting 1998-2006 This statistical political study is an analysis of straight ticket voting in the Texas elections of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. Were the election results last year an aberration or the beginning of a new trend in the landscape of Texas politics?
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