Peer-reviewed Articles

Effectively Communicating with Local Policymakers: a Randomized Trial of Policy Brief Dissemination to Address Obesity (with Elizabeth Dodson, Renee Parks, Rebekah Jacobs, Ruopeng An, Amy Eyler, Alexandra Morshed, Mary Politi, Rachel Tabak, Yan Yan, and Ross Brownson). Frontiers in Public Health (March 2024). [link]

Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials (with Michelangelo Landgrave and Kirk Bansak). Legislative Studies Quarterly (2022). [link]

Do Policymakers Listen to Experts? Evidence from a National Survey of Local and State Policymakers. American Political Science Review (September 2021). [link]

More Accurate But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public (with Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler, and D.J. Flynn). British Journal of Political Science (July 2021). [link]

American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19 (with Matthew Kugler, Mariana Oliver, and Jonathan Chu). Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Online (March 2021). [link]

Discounting Environmental Policy: The Effects of Psychological Distance Over Time and Space (with Gregg Sparkman and Bobbie Macdonald). Journal of Environmental Psychology (February 2021). [link]

Subnational Bipartisanship on Climate Change: Evidence from Surveys of Local and State Policymakers (with Dominik Stecuła). Climatic Change (January 2021). [link]

When Competition Plays Clean: How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies In The United States. Energy Policy (April 2020). [link]

How Policymakers Evaluate Online versus Offline Constituent Messages (with Kaiping Chen and William Marble). (November 2018). [link]

Why Not Run? How The Demands of Fundraising Undermine Ambition for Higher Office (with William Marble). (April 2018). [link]