​Current Research​​​​​​

• Is Congress Listening? An Empirical Test of the Second Face of Power using Tailored Surveys (with Alec Ewig)

• When Information Affects Attitudes: The Effectiveness of Targeting Attitude-Relevant Beliefs (with Patrick Liu and Scott Clifford)

• Chatbot-Driven Voting Aid Applications Increase Knowledge about Party Positions but Do Not Change Party Evaluations (with Semra Sevi and Don Green)

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​Publications​​​​​

• Misinformation, Generative AI, and Persuasion​​

  • ​​Crowdsourced Adaptive Surveys, Political Analysis (forthcoming)

  • Improving Debriefing Practices for Participants in Social Science Experiments (with Katherine Clayton, Ethan Porter, and Thomas Wood), PNAS Nexus

  • ​Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization using Tailored Experiments (with Patrick Liu), American Political Science Review

    • Guide for creating tailored experiments​

    • Featured on The Atlantic's "Good on Paper" Podcast​​

  • Latino-Targeted Misinformation and The Power of Factual Corrections (with Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood), Journal of Politics

  • Factual Corrections Eliminate False Beliefs about Covid-19 Vaccines (with Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood), Public Opinion Quarterly

  • ​Placebo Selection in Survey Experiments: An Agnostic Approach (with Ethan Porter), Political Analysis

  • Correcting Covid-19 Misinformation in Ten Countries (with Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood), Royal Society Open Science

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• Latino Politics, Immigrant Incorporation, and the Politics of Immigration​

  • ​​Reversion to the Mean or Their Version of The Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism (with Bernard Fraga and Emily West), American Political Science Review

  • Residential Mobility Constraints and Immigration Restrictionism, Political Behavior

  • The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWII (with Mayya Komisarchik and Maya Sen), Journal of Politics

  • Tuning In, Not Turning Out: Evaluating the Impact of Ethnic Television on Political Participation (with Benjamin Newman), American Journal of Political Science

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• Experimental and Survey Methodology​​

  • Language Barriers: Causal Evidence of Linguistic Item Bias in Multilingual Surveys (with Angel Saavedra Cisneros and Jose Gomez), Political Behavior

  • ​​Analyze the Attentive and Bypass Bias: Mock Vignette Checks in Survey Experiments (with John V. Kane and Jason Barabas), Political Science Research & Methods

  • Assessing Contextual Measurement Strategies (with Grace Wong), Journal of Politics​

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• Local Environments and Demographic Change​

  • Measuring Descriptive Representation at Scale: Methods for Predicting the Race and Ethnicity of Public Officials (with Diana Da In Lee), British Journal of Political Science

  • American Local Government Elections Database (with Christopher Warshaw, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, and Diana Da In Lee), Nature Scientific Data

  • ​Rising Tides or Political Ripcurrents? Gentrification and Minority Representation in 166 cities (with Diana Da In Lee), Urban Affairs Review

  • ​​​Nothing to Fear? Anxiety, Numeracy, and Demographic Perceptions (with students in my 2017 Political Science by the Numbers class at Wesleyan), Research & Politics

  • Racial Diversity and the Dynamics of Authoritarianism (with Howard Lavine), Journal of Politics

  • Diversity of a Different Kind: Gentrification and Its Impact on Social Capital and Political Engagement in Black Communities (with Benjamin Newman and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz), The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 

  • Ethnic Change, Personality, and Polarization over Immigration in the American Public (with Christopher Johnston and Benjamin Newman), Public Opinion Quarterly

  • Are Citizens Receiving the Treatment? Assessing a Key Link in Contextual Theories of Public Opinion and Political Behavior (with Benjamin Newman, Todd Hartmann, and Alexa Bankert), Political Psychology 

  • Group Size vs. Change? Assessing Americans’ Perception of Local Immigration (with Benjamin Newman), Political Research Quarterly

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• Political Behavior​

  • ​Sandy the Rainmaker: The Electoral Impact of a Superstorm (with David Martin), PS: Political Science & Politics 

  • Independent Leaners: Ideals, Myths, and Reality (with Helmut Norpoth), The Forum​​​

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Media and Other Writings

 

• Preparing for Generative AI in the 2024 Election: Recommendations and Best Practices Based on Academic Research White Paper

• Community-Centered Outlets Empower and Inform Latinos Columbia Journalism Review

• How will Florida’s Cuban Americans vote? That’s more complicated than many believe The Monkey Cage (Washington Post)

• Will misinformation keep Latinos from voting in the midterms? The Monkey Cage (Washington Post)