R&P · 2018
Revisits the white backlash hypothesis in the context of death penalty opinion. Using experimental methods, the study examines how racial cues in criminal justice contexts shape …
AJPS · 2018
Randomized experiments are political science's gold standard for causal inference — but a surprisingly common set of analytic choices can quietly destroy the advantage …
JOP · 2017
Examines how networks of congressional staff influence legislative behavior in the U.S. House. The study finds that shared staff connections between offices facilitate the …
APSR · 2017
Content-coding political texts is one of the most labor-intensive tasks in the discipline — but what if you could reliably outsource thousands of judgments to online workers …
APR · 2016
Investigates the stability of individual policy preferences and ideological constraint over time. The findings challenge assumptions about mass ideological consistency, showing …
APR · 2016
Tests whether public campaign financing changes how judges decide cases, using variation in North Carolina's judicial public financing program. The findings provide evidence on …
AJPS · 2015
Examines how political consultant networks facilitate the diffusion of campaign strategies across congressional elections. By mapping consultant ties between campaigns, the study …
PA · 2015
Develops a statistically principled approach to detecting electoral fraud using forensic analysis of vote return distributions. By incorporating prior knowledge about legitimate …
PA · 2014
Examines why roll-call scaling models find low dimensionality in legislative voting. The authors argue that partisan polarization, rather than genuine ideological constraint, …
IJF · 2014
Addresses the challenge of calibrating ensemble forecasting models when training data are sparse, a common problem in social science prediction. The paper develops methods for …