Publications

04 September 2019

SPID: A New Database for Inferring Public Policy Innovativeness and Diffusion Networks

Despite its rich tradition, there are key limitations to researchers’ ability to make generalizable inferences about state policy innovation and...

04 September 2019

The Effects of Polarization on Ideological Certainty: An Application to Executive Order Issuance

Many standard models of political institutions frame outcomes as a function of the preferences of key decision makers. However, these models, and the empirical...

04 September 2019

Well-Being and the Democratic State: How the Public Sector Promotes Human Happiness

While a growing literature within the study of subjective well-being demonstrates the impact of socio-political factors on subjective well-being, scholars...

24 May 2018

Parlez-vous français? Language and agricultural aid allocation strategies in northern Mali with Emily Maiden

In January 2012, insurgent groups in northern Mali began a violent campaign against the central government. By March 2012, then-President Amadou Toumani...

06 February 2018

Home on Sunday, Home on Tuesday? Secular Political Participation in the United States

The American religious landscape is transforming due to a sharp rise in the percentage of the population that is nonreligious. Political and demographic...

20 April 2017

Adapting Identities: Religious Conversion and Partisanship Among Asian American Immigrants

Andre P. Audette, Mark Brockway, Christopher L. Weaver Asian Americans constitute the largest group of new immigrants and the fastest growing ethnic group...

24 January 2017

Secular voters didn’t turn out for Clinton the way white evangelicals did for Trump

By Mark Brockway, David Campbell and Geoffrey Layman November 18, 2016 One question in the tumultuous 2016 presidential campaign was whether white evangelicals...