Research

Published Work

Book

• 2019 Neighborhood Defenders, Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis, (with Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer, Cambridge University Press.

Articles

• 2021 – Still Muted: The Limited Participatory Democracy of  Zoom Public Meetings (with Katherine Levine Einstein,  Luisa Godinez Puig and Maxwell Palmer), British Journal of Political Science

• 2021 –County Over Party: How Governors Prioritized Geography Rather Than Particular-
  ism in the Distribution Opportunity Zones  (with Maxwell Palmer), British Journal of Political Science

• 2020 – Perceptions of Public Health Priorities and Accountability among U.S. Mayors (with Louisa Godinez Puig, Katherine Levine Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, and Monica Wang), Public Health Reports

• 2020 – Do Mayors Run for Higher Office? New Evidence on Progressive Ambition (with Katherine Levine Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, and Robert Pressell), American Politics Research

• 2019 – Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes (with Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer), Perspectives on Politics

2020 Heinz Eulau Award for best paper published in Perspectives on Politics

• 2019 –  City Learning: Evidence of Policy Information Diffusion From a Survey of U.S. Mayors (with Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer),  Political Research Quarterly

• 2019 – Reassessing the Supreme Court: How Decisions and Negativity Bias Affect Legitimacy  (with Dino P. Christenson), Political Research Quarterly 

  2015 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Association Conference

• 2019 – Public Knowledge, Contaminant Concern, and Support for Recycled Water in the United States (Jillian Goldfarb, Wendy Heigher-Bernays, and Douglas Kriner, ),  Resources, Conservation, and Recycling

• 2018 – Recruiting for Online Surveys in the United States and India: Facebook, Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics (with Taylor Boas and Dino P. Christenson),  Political Science Research and Methods

• 2017 – Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State-Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors (with Katherine Levine Einstein), Publius: The Journal of Federalism

• 2017 – Does Race Affect Access to Government Services?: An Experiment Exploring Street Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing (with Katherine Levine Einstein), American Journal of Political Science,  Volume 61: Issue 1, pp 100-116, 2017

• 2016 – Mayors, Partisanship, and Redistribution: Evidence Directly From U.S. Mayors (with Katherine Levine Einstein), Urban Affairs Review, Online First, 2016

  APSA Urban Politics section best conference paper award

• 2015 –  Chief Justice Roberts’ Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy (with Dino P. Christenson) American Journal of Political Science: Vol 59, No 2, pp 403-4182015

  APSA Law and Courts section best journal article award

• 2015 – Do I think BLS data are BS? The Consequences of Conspiracy Theories (with Katherine Levine Einstein), Political Behavior, Vol. 37:No. 3, pp 679-701, 2015. Ungated

• 2015 Domain Specific Change: The Supreme Court and Public Support for Health Care Reform  (with Dino P. Christenson),  Public Opinion Quarterly Vol 79: No. 4, pp 881-905, 2015

• 2015 – Mimicking and Modifying: An Experiment in Learning From Others (with C. Daniel Myers),  Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol 27:No. 4, pp 588-612, 2015

• 2015 – Model Neighborhoods Through Mayors’ Eyes Fifty Years After the Civil Rights Act (with Katherine Levine Einstein), Boston University Law Review, Vol 95. No 3, pp 873-889

• 2014–Learning by Mimicking and Modifying: A Model of Policy Knowledge Diffusion with Evidence from Legal Implementation, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol 30, No. 2, November 2014

• 2014 – How Often Do States Learn? From Whom? Evidence of Policy Knowledge Diffusion from New Hampshire and Vermont (With Zoe Friedland), American Politics Research: Vol 42, pp 956-985

• 2013 – Safety in Numbers: Mainstream-Seeking Diffusion in Response to Executive Compensation Regulations, Quarterly Journal of Political Science: Vol. 8:No 2, pp 95-125

• 2013– Crowdsourcing Panel Studies and Real-Time Experiments in MTurk, (With Dino P. Christenson) The Political Methodologist: Vol 20, No. 2, March 2013

• 2009- Conditional Strategic Retreat: The Supreme Court’s Concession in the 1935 Gold Clause Cases: The Journal of Politics, Volume 71, Issue 3, July 2009 Download

  2005 APSA Law and Courts section best graduate student paper award