David Broockman
Associate Professor
Upcoming/Future Courses
Spring 2025
Graduate
Fall 2024
Graduate
Academic Subfields
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2015)
B.A., Yale University (2011)
Articles
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
- "Moderates" (with Benjamin Lauderdale) Conditionally Accepted, American Political Science Review.
- 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
- The Symbolic Politics of Housing (with Josh Kalla and Chris Elmendorf)
- Listen for a Change? (with Josh Kalla, Erik Santoro, and Roni Porat)
- The Causal Effects of Income on Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Randomized Field Experiment (with Elizabeth Rhodes, Alex Bartik, Karina Dotson, Sarah Miller, Patrick Krause, and Eva Vivalt)
Teaching
- Undergraduate: Introduction to Empirical Analysis & Quantitative Methods
- Undergraduate: Political Psychology
- Undergraduate: The Politics of Public Policy
- Graduate: Political Behavior
- Graduate: Representation: Bridging Institutions and Behavior (with Sean Gailmard)
- Graduate: Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (with Gabe Lenz)
Other
Director, Berkeley Center for American Democracy, 2022-
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2020-
Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 2019-
American Politics Field Coordinator, 2022-