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). [link, under review]
Why Not Run? How The Demands of Fundraising Undermine Ambition for Higher Office (with William Marble). [link, under review]
2022 Local Government Leadership Gender Gap Report (with Ayenna Cagaanan and Christine Dean). CivicPulse Website (March 2022). [link]
Where Are Local Governments Prioritizing Their Elders? (with Conor Ryan and Jacqueline Chattopadhyay). CivicPulse Website (February 25, 2022). [link]
Is Honesty the Best Policy? How Local Policymakers Communicate Covid Risks (with Emma Levine and Conor Ryan). CivicPulse Website (January 31, 2022). [link]
The Digital Divide Between Small Towns and Big Cities (with Ayenna Cagaanan and Michael Hotard). CivicPulse Website (December 29, 2021). [link]
What Effect is the Great Resignation Having on Local Government? (with Ayenna Cagaanan and Michael Hotard). CivicPulse Website (November 29, 2021). [link]
Problem or Solution? Cybersecurity and Cloud-based “Software as a Service” in Local Government (with Sara Guenther). CivicPulse Website (August 30, 2021). [link]
Who leads local government? (with Lindsey Washburn). CivicPulse Website (February 25, 2021). [link]
What Type of Revenue Makes a Local Government Most Resilient to the Pandemic Recession? (with Michael Hotard). CivicPulse Website (January 28, 2021). [link]
Latest Findings on The Gender Gap in Local Government (with Benedicte Adair and Brytan Mendes). CivicPulse Website (November 1, 2020). [link]
The Role of Software in Local Government: Assessing Impact, Priorities, and Challenges of Software Across Eight Different Areas of Local Government. CivicPulse Website (August 26, 2020). [link]
Improving Citizen Engagement in Online Forums & Public Meetings (with Brian Murphy). ELGL (July 13, 2020).[link]
Should We Open Up? Our National Survey of Local Government Officials Shows We May Not Have A Choice (with Jonathan Chu and Emily Katz) CivicPulse Website (June 22, 2020). [link]
Local Government Spending Priorities in the Wake of COVID-19 (with Jonathan Chu and Emily Katz) CivicPulse Website (May 1, 2020). [link]
The Local Government Perspective on COVID-19 (with Jonathan Chu and Emily Katz) CivicPulse Website (March 26, 2020). [link]
How Would Gun Laws Change If Local Governments Took Charge? Local Policymakers’ Attitudes Toward Gun Laws Across the U.S. (with Emily Katz) CivicPulse Website (January, 2020). [link]