Recent Publications

  1. Barron, Nathan T., and Peter T. McLaughlin. 2024. “Experimental Evidence of the Benefits and Risks of Credit Claiming and Pork Busting.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 49(1): 103-129.

Papers Under Review

  • “Christian Nationalism and Foreign Policy Attitudes.” with Katie Peach.

  • “Credible Claims: The Effect of Committee Positioning on Congressional Credit Claiming.” with Peter McLaughlin.

  • “Elections, Partisan Advantage, and Public Opinion on the Filibuster.” with Peter McLaughlin, Rachel Blum, Bennie Ashton, Charles Finocchiaro, and Michael Crespin.

  • “Ends Versus Means: Public Opinion on Congressional Redistricting.” with Peter McLaughlin, Peter Olson, Rachel Blum, Bennie Ashton, Charles Finocchiaro, and Michael Crespin.

  • “Nonpartisan Pork: Partisan Issues and the Effectiveness of Credit Claiming.” with Peter McLaughlin.

  • “Presidential Endorsements as Voter Cues: Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections.” with Peter McLaughlin, Rachel Blum, Bennie Ashton, Charles Finocchiaro, and Michael Crespin.

Working Projects

  • “Leveraging LLMs for Validating Treatment Language.”

  • “Measuring the Procedural Agenda: The Structure of Roll Call Voting in the U.S. Congress.” with Peter McLaughlin, Michael Crespin, Charles Finocchiaro, and David Rohde.

  • “Schooling Reassignments and the Politics of School Desegregation.” with Deven Carlson, James Carter III, Thurston Domina, Matthew Lenard, and Rachel Perera.

  • “Validating A.I.-generated Visual Treatments for Survey Experiments.”