Ongoing Projects

Drawing on a quasi-experiment with individual-level data from thirty-five countries (N = 32,080), exposure to attacks on women's rights significantly undermines the United States' democratic standing among European publics. A pre-registered vignette experiment in Britain (N = 2,993) demonstrates that news about attacks on liberal civil and social rights reduces perceptions of the US as a democracy and lowers public willingness to cooperate with it.

A pre-registered audio-video vignette experiment with a quota-representative sample of 3,994 German adults tests different forms of counterspeech against femonationalism. Only factual correction consistently reduces support for femonationalist views and anti-immigrant discourse; symbolic and substantive critiques show limited effects.

Novel experimental tests linking class-based descriptive representation to symbolic representation. Individuals who identify as working class believe that working-class legislators represent them better, increasing trust in decision-making. This relationship is strongest among those with a deeper psychological attachment to their class-based identity.

Exploiting Trump's unexpected announcement of US military strikes against Iran — made during the fieldwork of a nationally representative survey — we find partisan divergence in opinion unfolds within minutes: support for military intervention surges among Republicans but drops among Democrats. Robust across more than 28,000 alternative model specifications.