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Mollie Cohen

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2012
Electoral Systems and Political ParticipationSurvey Methodology and NonresponsePolitics and Society in Latin AmericaJudicial and Constitutional StudiesPopulism, Right-Wing Movements

Publications

51

Citations

405

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
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Mollie Cohen studies elections and public opinion, with a particular focus on voter behavior, election administration, and democratic attitudes in Latin America and the United States. Her work examines topics such as vote buying, poll watchers, ballot spoiling, and how citizens respond when elections produce contested or illiberal outcomes. She also contributes methodological research on improving survey data quality, including how to reduce missing responses and detect fabricated survey data.

Elections and voting behaviorDemocratic attitudes and legitimacySurvey methodology and data qualityLatin American politicsPolitical polarization and the far right

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, aside from a large spike in 2020 (likely including multiple linked datasets), with a modest average of about 2 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 25 publications25202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Harvard Dataverse×31
  • Research & Politics×2
  • Public Opinion Quarterly×2
  • American Journal of Political Science×1
  • Political Behavior×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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