APA Election Data (00028)

This dataset contains the results of the elections of the American Psychological Association between 1998 - 2009. The voters are allowed to rank any number of the 5 candidates without ties. Each of these elections have 5 candidates and between 13,318 and 20,239 voters.

These data were donated by Michal Regenwetter and Anna Popova from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work that analyzed this data was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES # 08-20009, ICES # 1216016 (PI: M. Regenwetter), the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PI: A. Popova), and the Basic Research Program at HSE (S. Popov). We thank the American Psychological Association for permitting access to its election ballot data.

Required citations: S. Popov, A. Popova, M. Regenwetter. Consensus formation in organizations: Hunting for the social choice conundrum in American Psychological Association elections Decision, 2015 (Bibtex).

Selected studies: M. Regenwetter, A. Kim, A. Kantor, and M.-H. R. Ho. The unexpected empirical consensus among consensus methods. Psychological Science, 18, 629-635, 2007. | M. Regenwetter, B. Grofman, A. Popova, W. Messner, C. Davis-Stober and D. Cavagnaro. Behavioural social choice: A status report. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 364, 833-843, 2009.