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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 Jewitt2024 – 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 Cowburn2024 – 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 Anzia2024 – 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 Anzia2023 – 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-Mellor2023 – 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 Piper2023 – Cornell Law Review – “The Independent Agency Myth,” has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Neal Devins2023- American Political Science Review- “Presidential Investment in the Administrative State,” has been released. The artcle was co-authored by Nicholas Bednar and David Lewis2023 – 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 Carnes2023 – 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 Chojnacki2022 – 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 Warshaw1/6/2021 – 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. Trussler12/2/2020 – 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 Thrower11/13/2020- 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 Sances9/24/2020 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 Bartels9/15/2020 – 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 Bartels9/8/2020 – 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 Shepherd8/20/2020 – 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 Shepherd7/20/2020 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 Michelitch6/20/2020 – 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 Shepherd5/1/2020 CSDI Working Paper 3 – 2020 titled “Work Welfare and Partisan Change” has been released. the co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer4/15/2020 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 Cramer3/10/2020 – Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, “Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Power Bills” has been published. The paper was authored by Sharece Thrower10/20/2019 – 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 Thrower8/8/19 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 Clinton7/30/19 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.More »
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.”More »
Vanderbilt Institute of Polling and Election Research
- Semi-directed opportunity for semi-independent research:
- Work within lab groups (~5 people)
- Develop and analyze already collected data (Vanderbilt Poll data initially)
- Share results and ideas: internally and externally
- Learn skills:
- Public opinion data: How to measure, how to analyze, what it means.
- Data skills: “wrangling” in R, summarizing, visualizing
- Communication
- White papers/memos
- Research reports
- First steps. More possible later.
- R Shiny apps for interactive visualization
- More advanced polling stuff
- Looking at election polling and non-VU Poll stuff