CAPS periodically compiles roundups of our affiliates recent publications, awards, and news. Please check out the Fall 2023 update below.
Marco M. Aviña
Publications: “Outgroup Bias and the Unacceptability of Tax Fraud.” (with Vincent Arel-Bundock, André Blais, Rita de la Feria, and Allison Harell). Forthcoming, Political Studies Review; “Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime.” (with Simon St-Georges, Vincent Arel-Bundock, and André Blais). Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
Awards: James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School.
David Beavers
Publications: Koliska, M., Moroney, E., & Beavers, D. (2023). “Trust Through Relationships in Journalism.” Journalism Studies.
News: Congratulations to David on his recent wedding!
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Awards: Awarded (with Michael Hankinson) the 2023 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award from Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, for the paper “How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy.”
Dimitrios Halikias
Publications: “Adam Smith’s Four Invisible Hands and the Problem of Political System.” Published in History of Political Thought.
Michael Hankinson
Publications: Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and Michael Hankinson. “How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy.” Forthcoming at Political Behavior; Nicole E. Wilson, Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, and Melissa Sands. “Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter.” Forthcoming at Urban Affairs Review; Michael Hankinson and Asya Magazinnik. “The Supply-Equity Trade-off: The Effect of Spatial Representation on the Local Housing Supply.” The Journal of Politics.
Awards: Best Paper on American Political Economy, APSA American Political Economy Section, 2023. For “The Policy Adjacent: How Affordable Housing Generates Policy Feedback Among Neighboring Residents'”.
Andrew Kao
Publications: AI-tocracy, with Martin Beraja, David Yang, and Noam Yuchtman, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Amy Lakeman
Awards: Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award of the Religion & Politics Section of American Political Science Association.
Mashail Malik
Publications: Malik, M. and Siddiqui, N. 2023. “Third Party Presence & the Political Salience of Ethnicity in Survey Data.” Forthcoming at The Journal of Politics.
Liz McKenna
Publications: “Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018.” MA Richmond, E McKenna. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
Cat O’Donnell
Awards: In May 2023 awarded the Best Student Paper Award by the Canadian Sociological Association for her CAPS-supported research entitled “Calling to Action: How right-leaning and left-leaning contemporary American social movement organizations mobilize their members differently.”
Chika Okafor
Publications: “Building the Next Pro-Life Movement.” Newsweek. June 22 2023.
Awards: 2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dissertation Completion Fellowship; 2023 Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project, in partnership with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
Franco Paz
News: Signed a book deal for his dissertation with Penguin Books (world English rights) and Ullstein (German rights).
Vincent Pons
Publications: “How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multicountry Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates.” (with Caroline Le Pennec), Quarterly Journal of Economics; “Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates.” (with Riako Granzier and Clémence Tricaud). Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Awards: Best Young French Economist Award, 2023.
Saúl Ramírez
Awards: Received a Dissertation Research Grant from the Russell Sage Foundation; became a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.
News: Became a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, 2023–2024, at Harvard Law School.
Mari Sanchez
Publications: Shira Zilberstein, Michèle Lamont, & Mari Sanchez. 2023. “Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times.” Sociological Science.
Theda Skocpol
Publications: Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol (2023). Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working Class Voters are Turning Away from the Democratic Party.(Columbia University Press).
Elizabeth Thom
Awards: Sidney Verba Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching.
Dustin Tingley
Publications: Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse (Cambridge University Press).
Shivram Viswanathan
Awards: James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy, Harvard University.
Kirsten Walters
Publications: Kirsten Walters and Theda Skocpol. “Immigration Clashes, Party Polarization, and Republican Radicalization: Tracking Shifts in State and National Party Platforms since 1980,” Forthcoming at Studies in American Political Development.