Research

Publications

  1. “Open-Ended Survey Responses and Political Conceptualizations in a Polarized Era.” Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Politics (with Benjamin Beutel, Jongwoo Jeong, and Paul M. Kellstedt).

  2. “Can Americans’ Trust in Local News Be Trusted? The Emergence, Sources, and Implications of the Local News Trust Advantage.” Accepted at American Journal of Political Science (with Erik Peterson, Joshua P. Darr, and Michael Henderson).

  3. “The Declarations of Independents: Open-Ended Survey Responses and the Nature of Non-Identification.” Forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science (with Benjamin Beutel, Jongwoo Jeong, and Paul M. Kellstedt).

  4. “Spelling Correction with Large Language Models to Reduce Measurement Error in Open-Ended Survey Responses.” Published at Research & Politics (with Jongwoo Jeong and Paul M. Kellstedt).

  5. “Political Alienation and the Trump Vote in the 2016-2020 U.S. Presidential Elections.” Published at Public Opinion Quarterly.

  6. “Schools of Thought: Leader Education and Policy Outcomes.” Published at Journal of Politics.(with Mark David Neiman).

  7. “The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and International News Sources.” Published at American Political Science Review (with Erik Peterson).

  8. “Screw Those Guys: Empathy, Polarization, and Attitudes about Out-Partisans.” Published at Political Psychology (with David A.M. Peterson).

  9. “Engagement in Care, Awareness, and Interest in Long-Acting Injectable Anti-Retroviral Therapy.” Published at AIDS and Behavior (with Jacob A Stout, Frances Hung, Katherine Link, Cliburn Chan, Charles Muiruri, John Sauceda, and Mehri S. McKellar).

Works in Progress

  • “Polarization and Discontent with Parties & Politics.” Book Manuscript.

  • “Outnumbered Online: The Consequences of Partisan Imbalance in Online Political Discussions.” with Andrew Trexler, Fatima Alqabandi, Tina Tucker, Chris Bail, D. Sunshine Hillygus and Alexander Volfovsky.

  • “Incivility in Cross-Partisan Interactions on Social Media.” with D. Sunshine Hillygus, Chris Bail, and Alex Volfovsky.

  • “Centripetal Force: Bureaucratic Ideology as Democratic Mainstay.” with Manuel P. Teodoro and Seung-Ho An.

  • “Mass Perceptions of Agency Ideology.” with Manuel P. Teodoro.