Working drafts

  • “Indigent defense caseloads in Texas: Assessing the extent of high-volume practice.” With George Naufal, Heather Caspers, and Geoff Burkhart. [pdf]
  • “White out-group intolerance and negative attitudes toward democracy.” With Steve Miller. [pdf]
  • “The link between the meaning of and support for democracy.” With Kirby Goidel and Keith Gaddie. [pdf]

Publications

  • “Constructing images of the divine: Latent heterogeneity in Americans’ impressions of God.” With Christopher Federico. Forthcoming. Journal for Scientific Study of Religion. [pdf]
  • “Winning, Losing, and the Dynamics of External Political Efficacy.” With Matthew P. Hitt. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
  • “Religion and Attitudes Toward Redistributive Policies Among Americans.” With Angela Farizao, James C. Garand, and Laura R. Olson. Political Research Quarterly. [replication files]
  • “Responsiveness and the Rules of the Game: How Disproportionality Affects Winners’ and Losers’ Perceptions of External Efficacy.” Electoral Studies.
  • “Identity sorting and political compromise.” 2018. American Politics Research. 
  • “Perceptions of elites and (asymmetric) sorting.” 2018. Research and Politics. [pdf]
  • “Religion and Partisan-Ideological Sorting, 1984-2016.” 2018. Social Science Quarterly. [pdf]
  • “Party polarization, Media Choice, and Mass Partisan-Ideological Sorting.” 2016. With Johanna Dunaway. Public Opinion Quarterly.
  • “Objectivity and Information Bias in Campaign News.” With Johanna L. Dunaway, Jeremy Padgett, and Rosanne M. Scholl. 2015. Journal of Communication.
  • “Sorting and the Split-Ticket: Evidence from Presidential and Subpresidential Elections.” With Lilliana Mason. 2016. Political Behavior. 
  • “The Role of Indifference in Split-Ticket Voting.” 2016. Political Behavior. 

Essays

  • “When government fails.” Jacobin  
  • “No, disgruntled primary losers won’t vote for the other party in November. Here’s why.” With Matthew P. Hitt. The Monkey Cage
  • “Donald Trump attracts poor voters with multiple Republican identities.” With Lilliana Mason. Vox: Mischiefs of Faction   
  • “The money bail system places undue burden on the incarcerated poor – but risk informed release can change that.” With Dottie Carmichael, Heather Caspers, Trey Marchbanks and George Naufal. LSE US Centre – USAPP