Yamil Ricardo Velez
Current Research
Publications
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Misinformation, Attitude Change, and Persuasion
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Confronting Core Issues: A Critical Assessment of Attitude Polarization using Tailored Experiments (with Patrick Liu), American Political Science Review
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Latino-Targeted Misinformation and The Power of Factual Corrections (with Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood), Journal of Politics
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Factual Corrections Eliminate False Beliefs about Covid-19 Vaccines (with Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood), Public Opinion Quarterly
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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
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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
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Residential Mobility Constraints and Immigration Restrictionism, Political Behavior
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The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment During WWII (with Mayya Komisarchik and Maya Sen), Journal of Politics
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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
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Language Barriers: Causal Evidence of Linguistic Item Bias in Multilingual Surveys (with Angel Saavedra Cisneros and Jose Gomez), Political Behavior
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Analyze the Attentive and Bypass Bias: Mock Vignette Checks in Survey Experiments (with John V. Kane and Jason Barabas), Political Science Research & Methods
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Placebo Selection In Survey Experiments: An Agnostic Approach (with Ethan Porter), Political Analysis
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Assessing Contextual Measurement Strategies (with Grace Wong), Journal of Politics
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Local Environments and Demographic Change
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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
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American Local Government Elections Database (with Christopher Warshaw, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, and Diana Da In Lee), Nature Scientific Data
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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
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Racial Diversity and the Dynamics of Authoritarianism (with Howard Lavine), Journal of Politics
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Diversification 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
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Ethnic Change, Personality, and Polarization over Immigration in the American Public (with Christopher Johnston and Benjamin Newman), Public Opinion Quarterly
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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
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Group Size vs. Change? Assessing Americans’ Perception of Local Immigration (with Benjamin Newman), Political Research Quarterly
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Political Behavior
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Sandy the Rainmaker: The Electoral Impact of a Superstorm (with David Martin), PS: Political Science & Politics
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Independent Leaners: Ideals, Myths, and Reality (with Helmut Norpoth), The Forum
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Media and Other Writings
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Community-Centered Outlets Empower and Inform Latinos Columbia Journalism Review
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How will Florida’s Cuban Americans vote? That’s more complicated than many believe The Monkey Cage (Washington Post)
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Will misinformation keep Latinos from voting in the midterms? The Monkey Cage (Washington Post)