Research

Publications

Americans’ Perceptions about Immigrants from Different World Regions: Evidence from a Multinomial Conjoint Experiment (Journal of Experimental Political Science, published ahead of print; https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2025.5)

Inconsistency of Americans’ Opinions on Free Speech: Evidence from Three Survey Experiments (with Rachel Smilan-Goldstein; Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties; published ahead of print; https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2421572)

Public and Expert Preferences in Foreign Policy Experiments: Evidence from Parallel Conjoint Analyses (with Melle Scholten; Political Science Research and Methods; published ahead of print; https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2025.10026)

Comparing Revealed and Expressed Populism: The Case of Voting for the “Alternative für Deutschland” and “Die Linke” (with Fabian Neuner, Christopher Wratil, and Bruno Castanho Silva; German Politics, published ahead of print; https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2025.2483225)

Americans’ Opposition to Muslim Immigration: Untangling Religion from Country of Origin (with Olyvia Christley; Political Behavior, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09996-w)

Multidimensional Constructions of Target Groups and Their Implications: The Case of Immigrant [Il]legality (with Lauren Van De Hey; PS: Political Science and Politics, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096525000034)

Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes (with Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Daniel Myers; Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2023.31)

Beliefs and Opinions about “Illegal” and “Undocumented” Immigrants: Conceptual Replication of a Null Result (with Robert Brehm; Research & Politics, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680251355233)

U.S. Sanctuary Policies and Mexicans’ Migration Preferences: A Conjoint-Experimental Study (with Rachel Smilan-Goldstein; International Migration Review, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231185120)

Perceived Opposition to Racially Progressive Policies and Negative Affect toward the Republican Party among Democrats (with Tyler Reny and Byengseon Bae; Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2025.10011)

This Proposal is Racist: The [Muted] Consequences of Invoking Racism in Policy Arguments (with Eugenia Quintanilla; Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2362687)

White Partisans’ Reactions to Real Politicians’ Tweets Framing White Supremacy and Radical Islam as Terrorist Threats (with Rachel Smilan-Goldstein; Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2342830)

Revisiting the Measurement of Group Schemas in Political Science (with Nicholas Valentino; The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885492.013)

Business Deserts Politics under Weak Institutions: Evidence from Russia, 2003–2010 (with Ivan Grigoriev; Business and Politics, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2024.31)

Who Is “On Welfare”? Validating the Use of Conjoint Experiments to Measure Stereotype Content (with Daniel Myers and Kristin Lunz Trujillo; Political Behavior, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09815-0)

Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research (with Christian Welzel; Political Research Quarterly, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241241753)

Perceptions of Stereotypically Immigrant Groups as Darker-Skinned and Politics of Immigration in the United States and Britain (Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2021.1992285)

The Child-Rearing Scale as a Measure of Authoritarianism in a Non-Western Context: Evidence from Mass and Elite Surveys in Russia (with Eduard Ponarin and Sharon Rivera; International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edad005)

Estimating and Using Individual Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments (Political Analysis, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2021.4)

The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties (with Nicholas Valentino; Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2022.4)

Social Dominance Orientation and Differential Affect toward Immigrant Origin Groups: Evidence from Three Immigration-Receiving Countries (International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.09.014)

Who Are “the Immigrants”? Beliefs about Immigrant Populations and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in the United States and Britain (Social Science Quarterly, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12925)

Social Conformity and Prejudice toward Immigrants: The Role of Political Messaging (with Maykel Verkuyten and Eduard Ponarin; Social Influence, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1080/15534510.2021.1989028)

Estimating Relative Prevalence of Competing Issue Voting Rules in Multiparty Elections Using Finite Mixture Modeling (Electoral Studies, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102249)

Intraparty Polarization in American Politics (with Eric Groenendyk and Michael Sances; Journal of Politics, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1086/708780)

The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion (with Nicholas Valentino, Sunshine Hillygus, and Brian Guay; Public Opinion Quarterly, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaa026)

Do Political Connections Make Businesspeople Richer? Evidence from Russia, 2003–2010 (with Ivan Grigoriev; Research & Politics, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168020979434)

Militant Internationalism and Dogmatism among Foreign Policy Elites: Evidence from Russia, 1995–2016 (Post-Soviet Affairs, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2019.1662199)

Nativist but not Alienated: A Comparative Perspective on the Radical Right Vote in Western Europe (Party Politics, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068813511379)

Perceptions of World Politics and Support for Terrorism among Muslims: Evidence from Muslim Countries and Western Europe (with Maykel Verkuyten and Jeroen Weesie; Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894213510121)

Forthcoming

Comparing Methods for Sampling Individuals Within Households: A Field Experiment in Costa Rica (with Noam Lupu, Daniel Montalvo, Mitchell Seligson, and Elizabeth Zechmeister; Survey Methodology; working paper)

Under review

Marginal Component Effects from Conjoint Experiments as Measures of Preferences: Assessing Predictive Validity at the Individual Level (with Fabian Neuner and Melle Scholten; working paper)

Anti-Americanism from the Dual-Process Motivational Perspective: Evidence from Russia (with Eduard Ponarin, Sharon Rivera, and Shane Lin; working paper)

Book project

As the Twig Is Bent: Race and Partisan Realignment in the United States (with David Sears and Nicholas Valentino)

Papers in progress

The Centrality of Ethnicity in Perceptions about Immigration: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in the United States (working paper)

Drivers of Affective Polarization: The Relative Impact of Race, Religion, Income, and Ideology (with Nicholas Valentino; working paper)

The Other Side of Sorting: Social Fractionalization of American Parties (with Eric Groenendyk; working paper)

Can Social Democratic Parties Attract Left-Authoritarian Voters? Evidence from a Simulation Study (with Zach Johnson; working paper)

Mental Images of the U.S. Parties and Political Polarization: A Reverse Correlation Analysis (with Anshita Singh, Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, and Jeremy Cone)

How Americans Understand Ideology: The Role of Issues, Identities, and Partisanship (with Elizabeth Simas)

Firm Subsidies and Populism (with Sonal Pandya and Melle Scholten)