Cornell University
Department of Government
Comparative politics and political methodology
Ph.D. expected August, 2008
"Three Essays on Causal Inference in Comparative Political Behavior."
Elections and voting behavior, public opinion, mass media, political economy of advanced industrialized nations, and causal inference in randomized experiments and observational studies
Holger Lutz Kern. "The Causal Effects of Personal Unemployment on Political Attitudes and Vote Choice:
Results from British Household Panel Survey Data."
Holger Lutz Kern. "Foreign Media and Protest Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of the
1989 East German Revolution." A poster for the 2008 Society for Political Methodology Summer Conference can be found
here.
Holger Lutz Kern. "The Political Consequences of Transitions out of Marriage: Do Women Really Become More Left-wing?"
Under review.
Holger Lutz Kern and Jens Hainmueller.
"Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes."
Web supplement. Under review.
A poster for the 2007 Society for Political Methodology Summer Conference can be found
here.
Jens Hainmueller and Holger Lutz Kern. 2008. "Incumbency as a Source of Spillover Effects in Mixed Electoral Systems:
Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design." Electoral Studies 27 (2): 213-227.
Web supplement.
Holger Lutz Kern and Jens Hainmueller. 2006. "Electoral Balancing, Divided Government and 'Midterm' Loss in German
Elections." Journal of Legislative Studies 12 (2): 127-149.
Replication archive.
Holger Lutz Kern. 2004. "Strategies of Legal Change: Great Britain, International Law, and the Abolition of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade." Journal of the History of International Law 6 (2): 233-258.
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