Research

In my most recent book, published in 2023 by Princeton University Press, I examine why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to the book’s Amazon page.

Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse and Sampling Bias, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press, was co-authored with Devin Caughey, Sara Chatfield, Erin Hartman, Eric Schickler, and Jasjeet J.Sekhon. In it, we elaborate a general workflow of weighting-based survey inference, decomposing it into two main tasks, and discuss extentions of this basic workflow. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to the book’s Amazon page.

I have deep interests in public opinion concerning foreign policy. In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to the book’s Amazon page. Click here to download a pre-copy version of the introduction and table of contents.

Princeton University Press published my book Silent Voices: Opinion Polls and Political Representation in America in 2004. Here is a brief Q&A from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the findings from the book. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to Amazon, where the book is available for purchase. Click here to download a pre-copy edited version of the introduction and table of contents.

Routledge published the third edition of my edited volume New Directions in Public Opinion in 2019. This book is intended for use as a textbook in American politics or public opinion classes. Each chapter provides a general overview of topics that are at the cutting edge of study as well as well-established cornerstones of the field. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to Amazon, where the book is available for purchase.