30. Attitudes Toward Police and Police Spending. Public Opinion Quarterly 88(2): 431–441. June 2024.
CV
Academic Positions
- Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, July 2022 – present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, July 2019 – June 2022
- University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, August 2015 – July 2019
- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, August 2014 – August 2015
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014
- B.A., Political Science, University of Massachusetts, 2006
Peer-Reviewed Publications
29. Measuring Attentiveness in Self-Administered Surveys. With Adam J. Berinsky, Alejandro Frydman, Michele F. Margolis, and Camilla Valerio. Public Opinion Quarterly 88(1): 214–241. March 2024.
28. Legitimate Questions: Public Perceptions of the Legitimacy of US Presidential Election Outcomes. Research and Politics 10(4): 1–8. October 2023.
27. Defund My Police? The Effect of George Floyd’s Murder on Support for Local Police Budgets. Journal of Politics 85(3): 1156–1160. July 2023.
26. Voters and Donors: Unequal Political Consequences of Fracking. With Hye Young You. Journal of Politics 84(3): 1667-1682. July 2022.
25. Presidential Approval and the Inherited Economy. American Journal of Political Science 65(4): 938-953. October 2021.
24. State Policy and Mental Health Outcomes under COVID-19. With Andrea L. Campbell. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 46(5): 811-830. October 2021.
23. Do District Attorneys Represent Their Voters? Evidence from California’s Era of Criminal Justice Reform. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2(2): 169-197. June 2021.
22. Using Screeners to Measure Respondent Attention on Self-Administered Surveys: Which Items and How Many?. With Adam J. Berinsky, Michele F. Margolis, and Christopher Warshaw. Political Science Research and Methods 9(2): 430-437. April 2021.
21. Policy Effects, Partisanship, and Elections: How Medicaid Expansion Affected Public Opinion Toward the Affordable Care Act. With Joshua D. Clinton. Journal of Politics 83(2): 498-514. April 2021.
20. When Voters Matter: The Limits of Local Government Responsiveness. Urban Affairs Review 57(2): 402-427. March 2021.
19. Missing the Target? Using Surveys to Validate Social Media Ad Targeting. Political Science Research and Methods 9(1): 215-222. January 2021.
18. Intraparty Polarization in American Politics. With Eric Groenendyk and Kirill Zhirkov. Journal of Politics 82(4): 1616-1620. October 2020.
17. Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service. With Rebecca Goldstein and Hye Young You. Urban Affairs Review 56(1): 5-31. January 2020.
16. How Unusual Was 2016? Flipping Counties, Flipping Voters, and the Education-Party Correlation Since 1952. Perspectives on Politics 17(3): 666-678. September 2019.
15. Who Participated in the ACA? Gains in Insurance Coverage by Political Partisanship. With Joshua D. Clinton. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 44(3): 349-379. June 2019.
14. Ideology and Vote Choice in U.S. Mayoral Elections: Evidence from Facebook Surveys. Political Behavior 40(3): 737-762. September 2018.
13. Something for Something: How and Why Direct Democracy Impacts Service Quality. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 13(1): 29-57. April 2018.
12. The Politics of Policy: The Initial Mass Political Effects of Medicaid Expansion in the States. With Joshua D. Clinton. American Political Science Review 112(1): 167-185. February 2018.
11. Partisan Differences in Nonpartisan Activity: The Case of Charitable Giving. With Michele F. Margolis. Political Behavior 39(4): 839-864. December 2017.
10. Attribution Errors in Federalist Systems: When Voters Punish the President for Local Tax Increases. Journal of Politics 79(4): 1286-1301. October 2017.
9. Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources. With Hye Young You. Journal of Politics 79(3): 1090-1094. July 2017.
8. Can We Convert Shirkers Into Workers?. With Adam J. Berinsky and Michele F. Margolis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 66: 20-28. September 2016.
7. The Distributional Impact of Greater Responsiveness: Evidence from New York Towns. Journal of Politics 78(1): 105-119. January 2016.
6. Partisanship and Confidence in the Vote Count: Evidence from U.S. National Elections since 2000. With Charles Stewart. Electoral Studies 40: 176-188. December 2015.
5. Closeness Counts: Increasing Precision and Reducing Errors in Mass Election Predictions. With Kai Quek. Political Analysis 23(4): 518-533. September 2015.
4. Separating the Shirkers from the Workers? Making Sure that Subjects Pay Attention on Self-Administered Surveys. With Adam J. Berinsky and Michele F. Margolis. American Journal of Political Science 58(3): 739-753. July 2014.
3. State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession: Budgetary Impacts and Policy Responses. With Andrea L. Campbell. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 650(1): 252-273. November 2013.
2. Is Money in Politics Harming Trust in Government? Evidence from Two Survey Experiments. Election Law Journal 12(1): 53-73. March 2013.
1. Disenfranchisement through Divorce? Estimating the Effect of Parental Absence on Voter Turnout. Political Behavior 35(1): 199-213. March 2013.
Working Papers
The Politics of Police Reform in the States. June 2024.
When Competence is Conservative: Obstacles to the Electoral Success of Progressive Prosecutors. March 2024.
Trust in the State Vote Count, 2020-2022. With Jesse T. Clarke and Charles Stewart III. December 2023.
Other Publications
The Nationalized Politics of Police Reform. The Forum 22(1): 71-96. June 2024.
Can Public Policy Influence Public Opinion? Studying Feedback Effects and Elite Influence Using the Affordable Care Act. Political Science Quarterly Online First. June 2024.
Review of the Annenberg IOD Collaborative’s Democracy amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion. Perspectives on Politics 21(4): 1468-1469. December 2023.
The Importance of Issue Representation in a Polarized Congress. With Joshua D. Clinton and Mary Catherine Sullivan. Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking edited by Charles Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford Gordon and Greg Huber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. February 2023.
Review of James E. Campbell’s Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America. Party Politics 25(6): 863-864. November 2019.
Constituencies and Public Opinion. With Andrea L. Campbell. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy edited by Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly J. Morgan. Oxford University Press. December 2014.
Conducting Online Experiments on Mechanical Turk. With Adam J. Berinksy and Kai Quek. The Experimental Political Scientist 3(1): 2-6. May 2012.
Policy Reports, Opinion Pieces, and Blog Posts
George Floyd’s Murder Decreased Support for Local Police Budgets. Journal of Politics blog. June 2023.
How Fracking Increased Inequality in Political Participation. With Hye Young You. Journal of Politics blog. February 2022.
Police Budgets on the Ballot before and after George Floyd’s Murder. Temple University Public Policy Lab Policy Brief. January 2022.
State Policy, Local Impact: How Policy Choices Will Shape the Financial Future of Pennsylvania School Districts. With William Hartman and Timothy Shrom. Temple University Public Policy Lab Report. July 2021.
Presidential Approval and the Inherited Economy. American Journal of Political Science Author Summaries. March 2021.
When Voters Matter: The Limits of Local Government Responsiveness. Urban Affairs Review Urban Affairs Forum. December 2020.
Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service. With Rebecca Goldstein and Hye Young You. Urban Affairs Review Urban Affairs Forum. June 2020.
The Missing Medicaid Millions. With Jake Haselswerdt and Sean McElwee. Data for Progress. November 2019.
What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes. With Rebecca Goldstein and Hye Young You. The Monkey Cage. September 2018.
Cities with more African Americans rely more on fines for revenue. With Hye Young You. London School of Economics USAPP Blog. May 2018.
Republicans give more to charity – but not because they oppose income redistribution. With Michele F. Margolis. London School of Economics Democratic Audit Blog. November 2017.
Republicans Will Be Blamed if Democrats Block ACA Replacement. Utica College Center of Public Affairs and Election Research. March 2017.
Americans have become much less confident that we count votes accurately. With Paul Gronke and Charles Stewart. The Monkey Cage. August 2016.
Voter fraud is more believable when your candidate loses. With Charles Stewart. London School of Economics USAPP Blog. February 2016.
The Partisan Trust Gap. The Monkey Cage. April 2011.
Grants and Awards
Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award, Fall 2023
Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award, Summer 2023
Participant, Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab’s Data Challenge, 2022.
Faculty Fellow, Public Policy Lab, Temple University, 2020-2021.
William Penn Foundation, “Impacts of State and Local Fiscal Policy Choices in a Time of Great Dislocations”, 2020-2021.
University of Memphis, Junior Scholar Nominee for Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, 2018.
University of Memphis, Michael Harless Faculty Excellence Award, 2018-2019.
Russell Sage Foundation, Presidential Award, “The Medicaid Expansion’s Impact on Partisanship, Repeal Support, and Dyadic Representation” (with Joshua Clinton), 2018-2020.
University of Memphis, Junior Scholar Nominee for Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, 2017.
University of Memphis, Faculty Research Grant, “American City Elections Study,” 2017-2018.
Smart City Research Fellow of the FedEx Institute of Technology, 2016-2017.
FedEx Institute of Technology and City of Memphis, Smart Cities Award, “Using New Technologies to Survey Memphis Residents: Identifying and Responding to Local Concerns,” 2016-2017.
American National Election Study, questions on election predictions selected for inclusion on the 2016 ANES Time Series (with Kai Quek).
Russell Sage Foundation, Presidential Award, “Policy Making Politics? The Mass Political Impact of Medicaid Expansions” (with Joshua Clinton), 2016-2018.
Travel Enrichment Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Memphis, 2015.
Lucian Pye Award for best dissertation in the MIT Department of Political Science, 2015.
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2012.
National Science Foundation, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), “Campaign Finance and Citizen Attitudes Toward Government,” 2011.
Teaching
Temple University
POLS 2102 American State and Local Politics
POLS 2503 Evidence and Knowledge
POLS 3530 Representation and Accountability in the United States
POLS 3530 Research in State Politics
POLS 8001 Political Statistics I / Statistics for Public Policy
POLS 8101 Government in American Society
POLS 8112 Research in State Politics
University of Memphis
POLS 1030 American Government Honors
POLS 3211 State and Local Government
POLS 3220 U.S. Congress
POLS 4101 Political Statistics
POLS 7100 Scope and Methods of Political Science
POLS 7101 Political Statistics
POLS 7101 Political Statistics
POLS 7202 Seminar U.S. Government
POLS 7204 Representation in American Politics
Paid Consultancies
NBC Universal, Elections Analyst, November 2019-November 2020.
Data for Progress, Data Analyst, July-November 2019.
Apperson Crump PLC, Data Analyst, June-July 2016.
Community Outreach
Key Votes Advisor for Pennsylvania, Project Vote Smart, August 2023-present.
Community Presentations
“The 2024 Elections and Beyond.” Dissent in America Teach-In, Temple University, February 16, 2024.
“The Midterm Elections: What Does It All Mean?” Dissent in America Teach-In, Temple University, November 11, 2022.
“Policy Roundtable - Midterm Elections 2022.” Public Policy Lab, Temple University, October 20, 2022.
“Local Fiscal Effects of Transitions to State Police Coverage.” Local Government Symposium: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in PA Local Government in a Post-COVID World. Local Government Commission of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, October 21, 2021
“Redistricting 2021.” Dissent in America Teach-In, Temple University, October 22, 2021.
“Election 2020: Results and Reactions.” Public Policy Lab Panel, Temple University, November 10, 2020.
“Politics and the Pandemic.” Dissent in America Teach-In, Temple University, September 18, 2020.
“What’s Next in TN Politics?” Tennessee County Services Association, Memphis, TN, November 3, 2017.
Conference and Seminar Presentations
2024
- Midwestern Political Science Association
2023
American Political Science Association
Midwestern Political Science Association
Election Science, Reform, & Administration Conference
2022
American Political Science Association
Midwestern Political Science Association
2021
“Local Government Symposium: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in PA Local Government in a Post-COVID World.” Local Government Commission of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, October 21, 2021 (virtual)
University of California, Berkeley Research Workshop in American Politics (virtual)
Columbia University American Politics Speaker Series (virtual)
Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative Local Political Economy Symposium, University of Southern California (virtual)
2020
International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Unite Conference (virtual)
University of Pennsylvania American Politics Seminar (virtual)
American Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
2019
Yale University American Politics & Public Policy Workshop
American Political Science Association
St. Louis Area Methods Meeting (SLAMM!)
Midwestern Political Science Association
University of Copenhagen
Aarhus University
2018
MIT American Politics Conference
Midwestern Political Science Association
First Annual Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Conference, University of Southern California
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Special Issue on Health and Political Participation Conference
2017
Russell Sage Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Conference on the Effects of the Affordable Care Act
American Political Science Association
University of California Berkeley Local Political Economy Conference
State Politics and Policy Conference
Midwestern Political Science Association
Vanderbilt University Urban Political Economy Conference
Southern Political Science Association
2016
American Political Science Association
Midwestern Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
2014
Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Seminar
American Political Science Association
2013
American Political Science Association
Yale American Politics Conference
University of Michigan/AAAPSS Conference on the Great Recession
Midwestern Political Science Association
2012
Society for Political Methodology
Midwestern Political Science Association
NYU Experimental Political Science Conference
MIT Political Economy Breakfast
2011
Society for Political Methodology
Midwestern Political Science Association
Professional Service
Co-organizer, Local Political Economy APSA Pre-Conference, 2024
Editorial board member, Political Behavior, 2023-
Section head, “Representation and Electoral Systems,” 2024 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Reviewer, APSA Spring Centennial Center Research Grants, 2023
Chair, APSA Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section John Kincaid Best Article Award Committee, 2023
Editorial board member, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2021-
Executive Committee member, APSA Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section, 2020-2022
Reviewer, Accountable Institutions and Behavior Program, National Science Foundation, 2021
Committee member, APSA Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section Martha Derthick Book Award, 2020
Committee member, APSA Political Psychology Section Best Paper Award, 2019
Section chair, “Crime, Policy, & Social Control,” 2018 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
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Departmental and University Service
Temple University
Political Science Graduate Chair, 2024–
Dissertation Committee Member, Daniel Confalone, 2024–
Public Policy Lab Advisory Board, 2022–
American Politics Field Chair, 2022–
Faculty Senate, 2022-
Department Contracts and Tenure Committee, Fall 2022.
American Politics Comprehensive Exam Committee, Fall 2021.
American Politics Faculty Search Committee, 2021.
Masters of Public Policy Advisory Committee, 2020.
Merit Committee, Department of Political Science, 2020.
Master’s Thesis Committee Member: Megan Beckwith (University of Memphis), 2019–2020.
University of Memphis
Master’s Thesis Committee Chair: Emily Fulmer, 2018–2019.
American Politics Faculty Search Committee, 2018.
Public Policy Faculty Search Committee, 2018.
Political Theory Faculty Search Committee, 2017.
Faculty Senate, 2017–2019.
Coordinator of Graduate Recruitment, 2016–2017.
Faculty Evaluator, Undergraduate Works in Progress Symposium, 2016.
Comparative Politics Faculty Search Committee, 2016.
School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy PhD Program Committee, 2015–2016.
Master’s Thesis Committee Member: Brooke Shannon, 2015–2016.