David Broockman

Google Scholar Profile

Political Polarization and Representation

• Consuming cross-cutting media causes learning and moderates attitudes: A field experiment with Fox News viewers (with Josh Kalla) Forthcoming, Journal of Politics.  Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Selective Exposure an Echo Chambers in Television News Consumption: Evidence from Linked Viewership, Administrative, and Survey Data (with Josh Kalla) Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not (with Josh Kalla and Sean Westwood) American Journal of Political Science. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Voter outreach campaigns can reduce affective polarization among implementing political activists (with Josh Kalla) American Political Science Review, forthcoming. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• The short-term, circumscribed, and conditional effects of cross-partisan conversation (with Erik Santoro) Science Advances, 8 no. 25. (2022). Replication data
• Predispositions and the Political Behavior of American Economic Elites: Evidence from Technology Entrepreneurs (with Gregory Ferenstein and Neil Malhotra) American Journal of Political Science  63 no. 1 (2019). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Bias In Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Political Elites  (with Christopher Skovron) American Political Science Review  112 no. 3 (2018). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• The Delegate Paradox: Why Polarized Politicians Can Represent Citizens Best  (with Douglas J. Ahler) Journal of Politics  80 no. 4 (2018). Replication data, Ungated PDF
  • Winner of the Joseph L. Bernd award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics in 2018
• What Do Donors Want? Heterogeneity by Party and Policy Domain (Research Note) (with Neil Malhotra) Public Opinion Quarterly. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists (with Nicholas Carnes, Melody Crowder-Meyer, and Christopher Skovron) British Journal of Political Science. Ungated PDF
• The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication  (with Daniel Butler)  American Journal of Political Science  61 no. 1. (2017). Replication data, Ungated PDF
  • Winner of the Best Paper Award from the APSA Experimental Research section
• Approaches to Studying Policy Representation  Legislative Studies Quarterly 41 no. 1. (2016). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Campaign Contributions Facilitate Access to Congressional Officials: A Randomized Field Experiment  (with Joshua Kalla) American Journal of Political Science  60 no. 3. (2016). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Preaching To The Choir: Americans Avoid Communicating To Outpartisan Elected Officials  (with Timothy J. Ryan) American Journal of Political Science  60 no. 4. (2016). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Distorted Communication, Unequal Representation: Constituents Communicate Less To Representatives Not Of Their Race American Journal of Political Science  58 no. 2. (2014). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Black Politicians Are More Intrinsically Motivated To Advance Blacks' Interests: A Field Experiment Manipulating Political Incentives  American Journal of Political Science  57 no. 3. (2013). Replication data, Ungated PDF
  • Winner of the Lawrence Longley Award for the best article on representation and electoral systems published in 2013 from the APSA Representation and Electoral Systems section
• The "Problem of Preferences": Medicare and Business Support for the Welfare State Studies in American Political Development 26 no. 2. (2012). Ungated PDF
• Mobilizing Candidates  Journal of Experimental Political Science  1 no. 2. (2014). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators  (with Daniel M. Butler) American Journal of Political Science  55 no. 3. (2011). Replication data, Ungated PDF
  • Honored in Science

Public Opinion and Elections

• Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public (with Josh Kalla, Christian Caballero, and Matthew Easton) Forthcoming, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments (with Luke Hewitt, Alexander Coppock, Ben Tappin, James Slezak, Valerie Coffman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Mohammad Hamidian) American Political Science Review, Replication data
• Shared Demographic Characteristics Do Not Reliably Facilitate Persuasion in Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Eight Experiments (with Josh Kalla, Nicholas Ottone, Erik Santoro, and Amanda Weiss) Forthcoming, British Journal of Political Science, Ungated PDF
• Heuristic Projection (with Aaron Kaufman and Gabriel Lenz) British Journal of Political Science
• When and Why Are Campaigns' Persuasive Effects Small? Evidence from the 2020 US Presidential Election (with Josh Kalla) American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Candidate Ideology and Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election (with Josh Kalla), American Politics Research Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Personalizing Moral Reframing in Interpersonal Conversation (with Adam S. Levine and Josh Kalla) Journal of Politics, forthcoming. Replication data, Ungated PDF
• "Outside Lobbying" over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads (with Josh Kalla) American Political Science Review (2021). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Which narrative strategies durably reduce prejudice? Evidence from field and survey experiments supporting the efficacy of perspective-getting (with Josh Kalla) American Journal of Political Science (2021). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• A Natural Experiment on Discrimination in Elections (with Evan J. Soltas) Journal of Public Economics 188 (2020). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Reducing exclusionary attitudes through interpersonal conversation: evidence from three field experiments (with Joshua Kalla) American Political Science Review 114 no. 2 (2020). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments (with Joshua Kalla) American Political Science Review  112 no. 1 (2018). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing (with Joshua Kalla)  Science 352 no. 6282. (2016).  Replication data
  • Commentary by Betsy Levy Paluck
  • This American Life coverage
  • Winner of the 2017 Cialdini Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• The Design of Field Experiments With Survey Outcomes: A Framework for Selecting More Efficient, Robust, and Ethical Designs  (with Joshua Kalla and Jasjeet Sekhon)  Political Analysis  25 no. 4 (2017). GitHub repo, Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Do Female Politicians Empower Women to Vote or Run for Office? A Regression Discontinuity Approach Electoral Studies  34. (2014). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Do Online Advertisements Increase Political Candidates' Name Recognition or Favorability? Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments  (with Donald P. Green)  Political Behavior  (2014). Replication data, Ungated PDF
• Do Congressional Candidates Have Reverse Coattails? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Political Analysis  17 no. 4. (2009). Replication data, Ungated PDF

Other

• "What Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong About Political Polarization," Social Science Research Council Centennial Lecture
• Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs. (with many co-authors) Vaccine 39 no. 2 (2021).
• Ascertaining Business's Interests and Political Preferences Studies in American Political Development  33 no. 1 (2019).
• Increasing Response Rates and Representativeness of Online Panels Recruited by Mail: Evidence from Experiments in 12 Original Surveys  (with Alan N. Yan and Joshua Kalla)
• G.O.P. Senators Might Not Realize It, but Not One State Supports A.H.C.A. (with Christopher Warshaw) New York Times  Methods Appendix
• Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature  (with Daniel M. Butler) Journal of Experimental Political Science  2 no. 2. (2015). Replication data
• Irregularities in LaCour (2014) (with Joshua Kalla and Peter Aronow) Replication data
• Experiments Show This Is the Best Way to Win Campaigns. But Is Anyone Actually Doing It? (with Joshua Kalla)  Vox
• Facebook: A New Frontier for Field Experiments  (with Timothy Ryan)  The Experimental Political Scientist

Under Review or In Preparation

• "Moderates" (with Benjamin Lauderdale) Revise and Resubmit, American Political Science Review.
• The Symbolic Politics of Housing (with Josh Kalla and Chris Elmendorf)
• Listen for a Change? (with Josh Kalla, Erik Santoro, and Roni Porat)