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."
A central question to the health of any democratic system is the manner in which public preferences are meaningfully expressed through electoral mechanisms. Understanding the relationship between voters and the officials elected to represent them is vital to any assessment of representative democracy. This component of CSDI’s research agenda engages the role and impact of various electoral rules and systems in aggregating and expressing public preferences, which are ultimately translated into legislative and executive institutions. Questions relating to the impact of various electoral institutions on the representation of citizens and the production of policy are of particular interest.