Latest Research
2025 - West Eauropean Politics - Cleavage Theory Meets Civil Society: a Framework and Research Agenda has been released. The article was co-written by Alex Mierke Zatwarnicki, Endre Borbáth and Swen Hutter.
2025 - American Political Science Review - Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior has been released. The article was co-written by Allison Anoll, Lauren Davenport, and Rachel Lienesch.
2024 - Presidential Studies Quarterly - To Caucus or Primary? Why State Parties Change Their Presidential Nomination Contests has been released. The article was co-written by Seth Masket and Caitlin Jewitt
2024 - Kansas Press - The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest: Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government" has been released. The book was co-authored by Bruce Oppenheimer and Robert Peabody.
2024 - Political Research Quarterly - "Who Decides? Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primary.", has been released. The article was co-written by Seth Masket, Rachel Blum and Mike Cowburn
2024 - Democracy Fund - "Pushed and Pulled: How Attitudes About Race and Immigration Are Settling and Shifting After Trump", has been released. The report was co-written by John Sides, Robert Griffin and Michael Tesler.
2024 - American Political Science Review - "Civil Service Adoption in America: The Political Influence of City Employees.", has been released. The article was co-written by Jessica Trounstine and Sarah Anzia
2024 - Annual Review of Political Science - "NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and the Politcs of Land Use in American Cities", has been released. The article ws co-authored by Jessica Trounstine and Sarah Anzia
2023 - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - "County-Level Segregation and Racial Diasparities in COVID-19 Outcomes," has been released. The article was co-authored by Jessica Trounstine and Sidra Goldman-Mellor
2023 - Journal of Experimental Political Science - "Ranking Candidates in Local Elections: Neither Catastrophe or Panacea," has been released. The article was co-authored by Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Gadarian and Jessica Trounstine.
2023 - Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory - "Do Vacancies Hurt Federal Agency Performance?" has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Christopher Piper
2023 - Cornell Law Review - "The Independent Agency Myth," has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Neal Devins
2023- American Political Science Review- "Presidential Investment in the Administrative State," has been released. The artcle was co-authored by Nicholas Bednar and David Lewis
2023 - Political Research Quarterly - "The Conditional Lawmaking Benefits of Party Faction Membership in Congress" has been released. The article was co-authored by Andrew J. Clarke, Craig Volden and Alan Wisemen.
2023 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - "House Republicans Were Rewarded for Supporitng Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' Efforts" has been released. The article was co-authored by Larry Bartels and Nick Carnes
2023 - Journal of Politics - "Babies and Ballots: Timing of Childbirth on Voter Turnout" has been published. The article was co-authored by Cindy Kam, Sara Kirshbaum and Lauren Chojnacki
2022 - American Political Science Review - "The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections" has been published. The article was co-authored by John Sides, Lynn Vaverick and Christopher Warshaw
1/6/2021 - Science Advances - "Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19" has been published. The article was co-authored by J. Clinton, J Cohen, J. Lapinski and M. Trussler
12/2/2020 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism" has been published. The article was co-authored by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower
11/13/2020- University of Chicago Pres Journals, "Partisanship, Policy, and Elections: How Medicaid Expansion Affected Public Opinion Toward the Affordable Care Act" has been published. It was co-authored by Josh Clinton and Michael Sances
9/24/2020 CSDI Working Paper - 4 - 2020 titled"Democracy Erodes From the Top Public Opinion and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe" has been released. The paper was authored by Larry Bartels
9/15/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Ethnic Antagonism Erodes Republicans' Commitment to Democracy" has been published. The article was authored by Larry Bartels
9/8/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, "The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authoreed by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd
8/20/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "The Effect of Big-City News on Rural America During the Covid -19 Pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd
7/20/2020 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2020 titled "Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes toward Refugees and Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence from Kenya" has been released. The co-authors are Nicole Audette, Jeremy Horowitz and Kristin Michelitch
6/20/2020 - Election Law Journal, "The Politics of Locating Polling Places: Race and Partisanship in North Carolina Election Administration, 2008–2016" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Nick Eubank, Adrienne Fresh and Michael Shepherd
5/1/2020 CSDI Working Paper 3 - 2020 titled "Work Welfare and Partisan Change" has been released. the co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer
4/15/2020 CSDI Working Paper 2 -2020 titled "Conceptions of Good Citizenship in the Class of 1965" has been released. The co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer
3/10/2020 - Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, "Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Power Bills" has been published. The paper was authored by Sharece Thrower
10/20/2019 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism In Separation of Powers Systems" was released. The co-authors are Michael Barber, Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower
8/8/19 CSDI Working Paper 2 - 2019 titled "Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa" has been released. The paper was co-authored by Robin Harding and Kristin Michelitch.
8/16/2019 - Public Choice - "The effect of majority party agenda setting on roll calls" has been published. The paper was authored by Josh Clinton
7/30/19 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2019 titled "Bridge over Troubled Water: Same Gender Substantive Representation in 49 Subnational Ugandan Governments." has been released. The paper is co-authored by SangEun Kim and Kristin Michelitch.
4/19 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, "Executive Control and Turnover in the Senor Executive Service." has been published. The article was co-authored by Kathleen Doherty, David Lewis and Scott Limbocker.
Media Spotlight
Washington Post - Op-Ed 3/26/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about ‘people like me’
Washington Post - Op-Ed 4/8/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Negative Views of Asian People have risen in both parties."
Washington Post - Op-Ed 10/28/2020 - Co -Director John Sides - "TV ads still win elections. And Democrats are buying alot more of them."
New York Times - Op-Ed - 6/25/2019 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "A lot of Candidates May Make it Seem Like Democracy is Working, But it is Not."
Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 6/24/19 - Co -Director David E. Lewis - Here's Why Trump is Threatening Federal Layoffs if Congress Won't Shut This Agency Down."
Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/21/18 - SVS Alex Theodoridis and graduate affiliate James Martherus - "Trump isn't the only one who calls opponents 'animals.' Democrats and Republicans do it to each other."
Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/14/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartels - "White People get more conservative when they move up - not down - economically. Here's the evidence."
Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 4/15/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartles - "How Paul Ryan Lost the Republican Party."
Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 2/21/18 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "Here's how little Americans have learned about Donald Trump."