Ongoing Research

Book

The Shifting Spotlight: How Issue Salience Dominates Politics (with James Dennison, in preparation)

Working Papers

“No Backlash to Value-Aligned Policies: Reassessing Public Responses to Pro-immigration Reforms” (with Marcel Roman)

“Collective Shocks and Social Preferences: A Global, Subnational Analysis” (with James Walsh and Iván Flores Martínez)

“Climate Indicators and Migration Intentions: Evidence from Africa” (with Beth Whitaker, Michael Ewers, and Jacob Scheff)

“Do Natural Disasters Erode or Foster Social Trust? New Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities” (with Giuliana Pardelli, Iván Flores Martínez, and James Walsh)

“Preventing Backlash by Shifting Issue Priorities: Immigration and Depopulation in Japan” (with Akira Igarashi, Rieko Kage, and Seiki Tanaka)

“Immigration is Still Difficult?! Administrative Burdens and Immigration Attitudes in the US and UK” (with Michelangelo Landgrave and Beatrice Magistro)

“Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope” (with Abel Brodel et al.)

Research in Progress

“Persuasion by Changing Voters’ Issue Priorities”

“Global Climate Shocks and Migration Intentions” (with Beth Whitaker, Michael Ewers, Jacob Scheff, James Walsh, and Iván Flores Martínez)

“Issue Importance Measurement” (with Matt Graham)

“The Evolution of Intellectual Elite’s Immigration Attitudes: A Big-Data Analysis of Historical Documents” (with Yaoyao Dai and Benjamin Radford)

“Reciprocity and Competition in Public Opinion on Immigration” (with Michelangelo Landgrave)

Dormant Papers

“Seat Safety and Female (Under)representation in the U.S. Congress” (with Maikol Cerda, Akhil Rajan, Frances Rosenbluth, and Ian Shapiro)

“The Rise of Safe Seats and Party Indiscipline in the U.S. Congress” (with Akhil Rajan, Maikol Cerda, Frances Rosenbluth, and Ian Shapiro)