Senior researcher at @statesunited. Political scientist. Quantitative researcher. Survey scientist. Spiritual weapon is pizza. Opinions are my own.
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New open access paper at @polcommjournal with Joel Sievert: we find that messages oriented towards national politics polarize people's views and evaluations of candidates and that messages stressing local matters sometimes do the opposite.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
New results!
In "The Symbolic Politics of Housing," @dbroockman @j_kalla & I showed that public opinion about housing policies correlates w/ affect towards the groups that the policies make salient (via framing or criteria in the policy itself).
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Thrilled to finally see this one in print in the latest issue of AJPS! Some projects are long and complicated, especially ones like this when the data collection involves filing hundreds of FOIA requests. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Texas Tech is hiring in Judicial Politics! The link to the job ad is below. I am on the committee and happy to chat more about the position.
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I'm looking forward to learning about what people are working on at #APSA2026. I'm headed to Boston on Wednesday and will be there through Friday. As always, I'm happy to meet with anyone who wants to chat about working outside (or inside) higher ed, research, or anything else.
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🚨 New paper alert with @markovitis in AJPS!
1/ Will voters participate in the primary of a party they oppose to prevent the nomination of a candidate they fear?
We study crossover voting using surveys and a large field experiment (N=83,902) in the 2024 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Revel in my failures, both academic and now for the first time nonacademic, by viewing my newly updated shadow CV:
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I'll be at #SPSA this week. Let me know if you want to meet to chat about research, States United, working in the political nonprofit/tech/higher ed space, or anything else.
Confidence that other people's votes will be counted properly doesn't affect turnout, suggesting that this process is driven by concerns about one's own vote rather than those of others.
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genuinely still impressed by the ludonarrative of Papers Please and how astutely it makes its point about participating in bureaucratic violence. "i play defensively, doing nothing illegal unless i have to, but i keep getting bad endings. how am i supposed to play?"
New at @PSJ_Editor with John Cluverius and Justin Kirkland: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
We test partisan and procedural concerns against one another and find that both drive support for and perceived legitimacy of unconstitutional legislation.
