Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates (2022)
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Visalvanich, N., & Sriram, S. K. (2023). Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates. Political Research Quarterly, 76(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211069175

South Asians have seen an increase in representation at all levels of US government, from Congress to the Vice Presidency, yet a paucity of work has been done examining South Asian candidates in America. The distinct nature of South Asian candidacies... Read More about Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates.

Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents (2021)
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Bischof, D., Cohen, G., Cohen, S., Foos, F., Kuhn, P. M., Nanou, K., …Vivyan, N. (2022). Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents. Political Studies Review, 20(2), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211037865

Audit experiments examining the responsiveness of public officials have become an increasingly popular tool used by political scientists. While these studies have brought significant insight into how public officials respond to different types of con... Read More about Advantages, Challenges and Limitations of Audit Experiments with Constituents.

Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy (2021)
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von Borzyskowski, I., Daxecker, U., & Kuhn, P. M. (2022). Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 39(5), 542-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942211026319

Election violence is common in many developing countries and has potentially detrimental implications for democratic consolidation. Drawing on political psychology, we argue that citizens’ fear of campaign violence undermines support for democracy wh... Read More about Fear of campaign violence and support for democracy and autocracy.

The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries (2021)
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Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2022). The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries. Political Analysis, 30(3), 381-402. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.10

To reduce strategic misreporting on sensitive topics, survey researchers increasingly use list experiments rather than direct questions. However, the complexity of list experiments may increase non-strategic misreporting. We provide the first empiric... Read More about The Misreporting Trade-off Between List Experiments and Direct Questions in Practice: Partition Validation Evidence from Two Countries.

Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting (2021)
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Kuhn, P. M., Mellish, S., & Vivyan, N. (2021). Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting. Electoral Studies, 70, Article 102276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102276

Direct survey measures of turnout often suffer from misreporting, particularly among non-voters. We investigate whether turnout misreporting in online surveys can be reduced by two new turnout question designs aimed at strengthening or buffering resp... Read More about Psychological Threat and Turnout Misreporting.

A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate (2020)
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Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2020). A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate. American Journal of Political Science, 64(3), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12470

Measuring how much citizens care about dierent policy issues is critical for political scientists, yet existing measurement approaches have signicant limitations. We provide a new surveyexperimental, choice-based approach for measuring the importance... Read More about A Choice-Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate.

Who Votes More Strategically? (2020)
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Eggers, A. C., & Vivyan, N. (2020). Who Votes More Strategically?. American Political Science Review, 114(2), 470-485. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055419000820

Strategic voting is an important explanation for aggregate political phenomena, but we know little about how strategic voting varies across types of voters. Are richer voters more strategic than poorer voters? Does strategic behavior vary with age, e... Read More about Who Votes More Strategically?.

Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany (2020)
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Glinitzer, K., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2020). Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 45(4), 645-678. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12274

When Members of Parliament (MPs) disagree publicly with their party, this provides a signal to voters regarding both their political views and their character valence. We argue that the strength of this signal to voters depends on the personal career... Read More about Costly signals: Voter responses to parliamentary dissent in Austria, Britain and Germany.

Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa (2020)
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Borzyskowski, I. V., & Kuhn, P. M. (2020). Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa. Journal of Peace Research, 57(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343319885166

A considerable literature examines the effect of voter information on candidate strategies and voter-politician interactions in the developing world. The voter information literature argues that information can improve accountability because more inf... Read More about Dangerously Informed: Voter Information and Pre-Electoral Violence in Africa.

Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016 (2019)
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Cohen, G., & Cohen, S. (2021). Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016. British Journal of Political Science, 51(3), 1181-1202. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000486

In this article we examine party sorting, elite cue and ideological polarization ac- counts of polarization dynamics. We test their diering expectations about trends in redistributive ideological polarization and partisan polarization in the British... Read More about Depolarization, Repolarization and Redistributive Ideological Change in Britain, 1983-2016.

Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism (2019)
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Kavakli, K. C., & Kuhn, P. M. (2020). Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism. International Organization, 74(1), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002081831900033x

How do international observers decide whether to criticize or condone electoral fraud in a country? We argue that this decision depends on the identity of the victims of electoral fraud. A monitoring organization is more likely to overlook fraud comm... Read More about Dangerous Contenders: Election Monitors, Islamic Opposition Parties and Terrorism.

Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations (2019)
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Vivyan, N., Wagner, M., Glinitzer, K., & Moritz-Eberl, J. (2020). Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations. Electoral Studies, 63, Article 102093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102093

Motivated partly by descriptive representation concerns, political scientists have become increasingly interested in voters’ preferences over the social class of their representatives. Whereas existing research focuses mainly on preferences concernin... Read More about Do Humble Beginnings Help? How Politician Class Roots Shape Voter Evaluations.

The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates (2019)
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Hassell, H. J., & Visalvanich, N. (2019). The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates. American Journal of Political Science, 63(4), 905-919. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12461

Party support has a strong influence on candidate success in the primary. What remains unexplored is whether party actions during the primary are biased along racial and gender lines. Using candidate demographic data at the congressional level and me... Read More about The Party’s Primary Preferences: Race, Gender, and Party Support of Congressional Primary Candidates.

Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots (2019)
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Campbell, R., Cowley, P., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2019). Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots. Journal of Politics, 81(3), 937-951. https://doi.org/10.1086/703131

Why do politicians with strong local roots receive more electoral support? The mechanisms underlying this well-documented “friends and neighbors” effect remain largely untested. Drawing on two population-based survey experiments fielded in Britain, w... Read More about Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots.

Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970) (2018)
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Eynde, O. V., Kuhn, P. M., & Moradi, A. (2018). Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(3), 388-417. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20160384

How does ethnic politics affect the state’s ability to provide policing services? Using a panel of administrative personnel data on the full careers of 6,784 police officers, we show how the rise of ethnic politics around Kenya’s independence influen... Read More about Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970).

Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys (2018)
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Kuhn, P. M., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 82(2), 300-321. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfy017

Assessing individual-level theories of electoral participation requires survey-based measures of turnout. Yet, due to a combination of sampling problems and respondent misreporting, postelection surveys routinely overestimate turnout, often by large... Read More about Reducing Turnout Misreporting in Online Surveys.

Decomposing Public Opinion Variation into Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability (2018)
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Lauderdale, B. E., Hanretty, C., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Decomposing Public Opinion Variation into Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability. Journal of Politics, 80(2), 707-712. https://doi.org/10.1086/695673

We propose a method for decomposing variation in the issue preferences that US citizens express on surveys into three sources of variability that correspond to major threads in public opinion research. We find that, averaging across a set of high-pro... Read More about Decomposing Public Opinion Variation into Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability.

It’s All About Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents (2018)
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Gell-Redman, M., Visalvanich, N., Crabtree, C., & Fariss, C. J. (2018). It’s All About Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents. Political Research Quarterly, 71(3), 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912917749322

How do elected representatives respond to the needs of immigrant constituents? We report the results of a field experiment on U.S. state legislators in which the nativity, likelihood of voting, and race/ethnicity of a hypothetical constituent are ind... Read More about It’s All About Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents.

Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life? (2017)
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Eggers, A. C., Vivyan, N., & Wagner, M. (2018). Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life?. Journal of Politics, 80(1), 321-326. https://doi.org/10.1086/694649

Previous research suggests that female politicians face higher standards in public life, perhaps in part because female voters expect more from female politicians than from male politicians. Most of this research is based on observational evidence. W... Read More about Corruption, accountability, and gender: Do female politicians face higher standards in public life?.

Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods (2017)
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Fair, C. C., Kuhn, P. M., Malhotra, N., & Shapiro, J. N. (2017). Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 12(1), 99-141. https://doi.org/10.1561/100.00015075

How natural disasters affect politics in developing countries is an important question, given the fragility of fledgling democratic institutions in some of these countries as well as likely increased exposure to natural disasters over time due to cli... Read More about Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010–11 Pakistani Floods.