Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Book Cover: In Our Interest by Alexander Kustov
Columbia University Press
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Publications

Book

In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular (forthcoming at Columbia University Press, 2025)

Peer-reviewed Publications

18. Pardelli, Giuliana and Alexander Kustov. 2025. More Turnover, Less Turnout? Domestic Migration and Political Participation across Communities. British Journal of Political Science. (final draft)

17. Kustov, Alexander and Michelangelo Landgrave. 2025. Immigration is Difficult?! Informing Voters About Immigration Policy Fosters Pro-immigration Views. Journal of Experimental Political Science. (final draft) (OSF pre-print) (replication materials)

16. Kustov, Alexander. 2024. Beyond Changing Minds: Raising the Issue Importance of Expanding Legal Immigration. Perspectives on Politics. (final draft) (OSF pre-print) (replication materials)

15. Kustov, Alexander and Giuliana Pardelli. 2024. Beyond Diversity: The Role of State Capacity in Fostering Social Cohesion in Brazil. World Development. 180: 106625. (final draft)

14. Dai, Yaoyao and Alexander Kustov. 2024. (In)effectiveness of Populism: A Conjoint Experiment of Campaign Messages. Political Science Research and Methods. 12 (4): 849-856. (final draft) (online appendix) (replication materials)

13. Dennison, James and Alexander Kustov. 2023. The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes. Public Opinion Quarterly. 87 (4): 1013–1024. (final draft) (replication materials)

12. Kustov, Alexander. 2023. Testing the Backlash Argument: Voter Responses to (Pro-)Immigration Reforms. Journal of European Public Policy. 30 (6): 1183-1203. (final draft) (replication materials)

11. Kustov, Alexander. 2023. Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes. British Journal of Political Science. 53 (2): 796-805. (final draft) (online appendix) (replication materials)

10. Santiago, Abdiel, Alexander Kustov, and Ali A. Valenzuela. 2023. In the Shadow of the Stars and Stripes: Testing the Malleability of U.S. Support for Puerto Rican Statehood. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 33 (3), 343-353. (final draft)

9. Dennison, James, Alexander Kustov, and Andrew Geddes. 2023. Public Attitudes to Immigration in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Little Change in Policy Preferences, Big Drops in Issue Salience. International Migration Review. 57 (2): 557-577. (SSRN draft) (final draft)

8. Pardelli, Giuliana and Alexander Kustov. 2022. When Coethnicity Fails. World Politics. 74 (2): 249-284. (APSA pre-print) (final draft) (replication materials)

7. Dai, Yaoyao and Alexander Kustov. 2022. When Do Politicians Use Populist Rhetoric? Populism as a Campaign Gamble. Political Communication. 39 (3): 383-404. (final draft) (replication materials)

6. Kustov, Alexander. 2022. ‘Bloom where you’re planted’: explaining public opposition to (e)migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 48 (5): 1113-1132. (final draft)

5. Kustov, Alexander, Dillon Laaker, and Cassidy Reller. 2021. The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications. Journal of Politics. 83 (4): 1478-1494. (SSRN draft) (final draft) (replication materials)

4. Kustov, Alexander. 2021. Borders of Compassion: Immigration Preferences and Parochial Altruism. Comparative Political Studies. 54 (3-4): 445–481. (final draft) (replication materials)

3. Kustov, Alexander. 2019. Is There a Backlash Against Immigration from Richer Countries? International Hierarchy and the Limits of Group Threat. Political Psychology. 40 (5): 973-1000. (final draft)

2. Kustov, Alexander, and Giuliana Pardelli. 2018. Ethnoracial Homogeneity and Public Outcomes: The (Non)effects of Diversity. American Political Science Review. 112 (4): 1096-1103. (final draft) (replication materials)

1. Kustov, Alexander. 2017. How Ethnic Structure Affects Civil Conflict: A Model of Endogenous Ethnic Grievance. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 34 (6): 660–679. (final draft) (replication materials)