ACADEMIC PAPERS

Research and academic papers generated with data from CivicPulse surveys.

Effectively communicating with local policymakers: a randomized trial of policy brief dissemination to address obesity

Published in Frontiers In Public Health
by Elizabeth A. Dodson, Renee G. Parks, Rebekah R. Jacob, Ruopeng An, Amy A. Eyler, Nathan Lee, Alexandra B. Morshed, Mary C. Politi, Rachel G. Tabak, Yan Yan, and Ross C. Brownson
2024

Threats as Political Communication

Published in Political Communication
by Nathan P Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason
2023

Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics

Published in Human Communication Research
by Daniel E Bergan, Hillary C Shulman, and Dustin Carnahan
2023

Uncertain Futures:
How to Unlock the Climate Impasse

Published in Cambridge University Press
by Alexander Gazmararian and Dustin Tingley
2023

The Preference for Reciprocity in Congress

Published in American Journal of Political Science
by Christian Fong
2023

How Do Politicians Bargain? Evidence from Ultimatum Games with Legislators in Five Countries

Published in American Political Science Review
by Lior Sheffer, Peter John Loewen, Stefaan Walgrave, Stefanie Bailer, Christian Breunig, Luzia Helfer, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Frédéric Varone, Rens Vliegenthart
2023

Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance

Published in Oxford University Press
by Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen
2022

Local News and the Electoral Incentive to Invest in Infrastructure

Published in American Political Science Review
by Megan Mullin and Katy Hansen
2022

Barriers to water infrastructure investment: Findings from a survey of U.S. local elected officials

Published in PLOS Water
by Katy Hansen and Megan Mullin
2022

Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials

Published in Legislative Studies Quarterly
by Nathan Lee, Michelangelo Landgrave, and Kirk Bansak
2022

Unmet Desire

Published in Issues
by Adam Seth Levine
2022

Listening to the people: politicians’ investment in monitoring public opinion and their beliefs about accountability

Published in Journal of Legislative Studies
by Karolin Soontjens and Stefaan Walgrave
2021

Republicans are more optimistic about economic mobility, but no less accurate

Published in Research and Politics
by Matt Grossmann, Kayla Hamann, Jennifer Lee, Gabrielle Levy, Brendan Nyhan and Victor Wu
2021

What influences attitudes about artificial intelligence adoption: Evidence from U.S. local officials

Published in PLOS ONE
by Michael C. Horowitz and Lauren Kahn
2021

Do Policymakers Listen to Experts? Evidence from a National Survey of Local and State Policymakers

Published in American Political Science Review
by Nathan Lee
2021

Surveying Surveillance: A National Study of Police Department Surveillance Technologies

Published in Arizona State Law Journal
by Mariana Oliver and Matthew B. Kugler
2021

American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19

Published in Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Online
by Matthew Kugler, Mariana Oliver, Jonathan Chu, and Nathan Lee
2021

Subnational bipartisanship on climate change: evidence from surveys of local and state policymakers

Published in Climatic Change
by Nathan Lee and Dominik Stecuła
2021

Local elected officials’ receptivity to refugee resettlement in the United States

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
by Robert Shaffer, Lauren E. Pinson, Jonathan A. Chu, and Beth A. Simmons
2020

More Accurate But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public

Published in British Journal of Political Science
by Nathan Lee, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and D.J. Flynn
2020

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