General Research Information
The Center for Campaign Leadership will sponsor and conduct original interdisciplinary research on political campaigns, which draws on both empirical and normative scholarship. In addition to administering surveys and conducting focus groups that will assess the public's attitudes about campaign practices, scholars affiliated with the CCL, who specialize in ethics and democratic theory, will develop a rigorous analytic framework for thinking about the ethical issues that arise in modern campaigns. It is the hope of CCL that this work will spur a new scholarly literature on campaign ethics. We also intend to use the results of this research to develop the curriculum for our training seminars.

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PPIC just released the Pew funded monograph:
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/R_1004MBR.pdf

Poetic License for Politicians?: Public Opinion About Campaigns
by Keena Lipsitz, Christine Trost, John Sides, and Matt Grossman

Candidate Attacks and Voter Aversion:
The Uncertain Link Between Negativity and Campaign Satisfaction
by John Sides, Matt Grossman, Keena Lipsitz and Christine Trost

Teaching Ethical and Effective Campaign Skills to the Next Generation of Political Consultants by Christine Trost

Key Findings and Analysis of CCL/PPIC Focus Groups by Christine Trost

Campaign Practices and The Consulting Industry by Matt Grossman

Key Findings and Toplines of the CCL/PPIC Campaign Attitudes Survey by Christine Trost

Survey of Public Opinion Towards Political Campaigns by the Center for Campaign Leadership, and the Public Policy Institute of California

Voters Weigh-In on “Best Practices” in Campaigns by Keena Lipsitz

The Season of Our Discontent: Voters Views on California Elections by Mark Baldassare  Bruce E. Cain  D. E. Apollonio  Jonathan Cohen

MORE COMING SOON!