Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970) (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.