This page has links to research in progress and published in the past few years, grouped by topic.  A full list of my research is on my CV, which is available on the Welcome page of this site.  If you want a copy of something that’s not available on this page, send me an email.

Election Fraud, Misperceptions, and Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

• “Prebunking and credible-source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the United States and Brazil.” Co-authored with Brian Fogarty, Marilia Gehrke, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. Working paper. February 2024.

• “Losing predicts perceptions that elections were decided by fraud, but margin of loss and candidate race do not.” Co-authored with Cecile Tobin, Ben Aronson, Sharanya Majumder, Hannah Tanenbaum, Ethan Weber, Brian Fogarty, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler. Electoral Studies, forthcoming 2025.

• “The narrow reach of targeted corrections: No impact on broader beliefs about election integrity.” Co-authored with Elizabeth Chun, Alice Cook, Brian Fogarty, Leyla Jacoby, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and Lilian Sweeney. Political Behavior, forthcoming, 2024.

• “Legislator criticism of a candidate’s conspiracy beliefs reduces support for the conspiracy but not the candidate: Evidence from Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon.” Co-authored with Victor Chu, Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 2022.
• “Partisanship unmasked: The role of politics and social norms in COVID-19 mask-wearing behavior.” Co-authored with Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, Joseph B. Phillips, and Jason Reifler. Journal of Experimental Political Science. September 2022.
• “The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions: Evidence from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.” Co-authored with Andrew M. Guess, Peter John Loewen, Eric Merkley, Brendan Nyhan, Joseph B. Phillips, and Jason Reifler. Nature Human Behavior. February 2022.
• “Learning how others perceive COVID-19 vaccination has minimal effect on uptake intentions: Evidence from injunctive norm and contentiousness treatments in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.” Co-authored with Tracy Keirns, Peter John Loewen, Eric Merkley, Brendan Nyhan, Joseph B. Phillips, Judy Rees, and Jason Reifler. PNAS – Nexus. May 2022.
• “The Effects of corrective information about disease epidemics and outbreaks: Evidence from Zika and Yellow Fever in Brazil.” Co-authored with Victoria Chi, D.J. Flynn, Brendan Nyhan, and Thomas Zeitzoff. Science Advances. January 2020.  DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw7449.
• “Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories in Venezuela?” Latin American Research Review, 54(2):444–457. June 2019.   DOI: http://doi.org/10.25222/larr.88

American Democracy

• “Expert bias and democratic erosion: Assessing expert perceptions of contemporary American democracy.” Co-authored with Olivier Bergeron-Boutin, Gretchen Helmke, and Eli Rau. PS: Political Science and Politics. January 2024.
• “The Effect of Electoral Inversions on Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from the United States.” Co-authored with Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders, Susan C. Stokes, and Shun Yamaya. British Journal of Political Science. December 2021.
• “Who Will Defend Democracy? Evaluating Tradeoffs in Candidate Support Among Partisan Donors and Voters.” Co-authored with Katherine Clayton, Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders, and Susan C. Stokes. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Policy. July 2020.
• “Searching for a Bright Line in the Trump presidency.” Co-authored with Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders, and Susan C. Stokes. Perspectives on Politics 17(3):699-718. March 2019.

Campus Diversity and Racial Attitudes

• “Disfavor or Favor? Assessing the Valence of White Americans’ Racial Attitudes.” Co-authored with Alexander Agadjanian, Yusaku Horiuchi, and Timothy J. Ryan. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 18:75-103. 2023.
• Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus. Co-authored with Katherine Clayton and Yusaku Horiuchi. Cambridge University Press. 2020.
  • Campus Diversity replication package at Dataverse.
• “Student attitudes toward campus diversity at the United States Naval Academy: Evidence from conjoint survey experiments.” Co-authored with John Polga-Hecimovich and Yusaku Horiuchi. Armed Forces & Society:1-24. 2019.
• “Who wants to hire a more diverse faculty? A conjoint analysis of faculty and student preferences for gender and racial/ethnic diversity.” Co-authored with Kevin R. Carman, Katherine P. Clayton, Yusaku Horiuchi, Mala Htun, and Brittany Ortiz. Politics, Groups, and Identities 8(3):535-553. 2018.

Electoral System Design

• “Great for constitution writing but an obstacle to democratic consolidation: The ephemeral value of the Hare Quota formula in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections.” Co-authored with Alex P. Martin. Representation. 2022.
• “Electoral System Design in New Democracies.” Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems.  Erik Herron, Robert Pekkanen, and Matthew Soberg Shugart, editors.  2018.