Research

Working Papers

  • The Effect of Candidate Ideological Extremism on Vote Choice and Turnout (with Hans J.G. Hassell and Kevin Reuning)

    This paper uses CES data from 2010 to 2022 to examine how voters’ perception of candidates’ ideological extremity influences their turnout and vote choice. Link to paper.

  • Who’s in Office Anyways? Estimating the Race of Elected Officials from Names with Neural Networks

    In this paper, I use data from the Florida voter file and the Candidates Characteristics Cooperative (C3) to estimate the race of state legislative officials using their names by training a BiLSTM model on both the voter file and the C3 data. Link to Polmeth 41 Poster

Conference Posters/Slides

Below are the papers that I have conferenced recently, with a brief description with the slides, poster, or both attached.

  • Party Cues or Group Sympathy? How Perceived Group Support Shapes Policy Beliefs

    This paper is a chapter of my dissertation where I explore the mechanism through which perceptions of social group support for a policy influence people’s own policy positions. More specifically, I explore if racial group support for a policy influences people’s own support for that policy due to people’s attitudes towards that group, or if race is being used as a cue for party support. Using a vignette experiment, I find mixed evidence suggesting that race serves more as a party cue than directly influencing people’s opinions. Link to Polmeth 42 Poster