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Associate Professor of Political Science

Research

Punishment and Democracy


Review and Description

Causal Inference

  • White, Ariel. 2022. “Misdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The demobilizing effects of brief jail spells on potential voters”. American Political Science Review 113 (2): 311-324. (Publisher’s version)
  • White, Ariel. 2018. “Family Matters? Voting Behavior in Households with Criminal Justice Contact”.  American Political Science Review 113 (2): 607-613.
    (Publisher’s Version)(Working paper version)(Replication Data)
  • Civic Reincorporation

      • Getting out the (Newly-Enfranchised) Vote: Encouraging Voter Registration After Rights Restoration (with Hannah Walker, Melissa Michelson, Sam Roth)(Forthcoming at Political Behavior)(working paper)

      • Reincorporating Returning Citizens into Political Life (with Jennifer Doleac, Laurel Eckhouse, Eric Foster-Moore, Allison Harris, and Hannah Walker)(Conditionally accepted at JOP)(working paper)

    Street-Level Bureaucratic Behavior and Public Interactions


      • English, Jasmine, Ariel White, and Lauren Eckhouse. 2025. “How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protest” Perspectives on Politics. (Publisher’s version)(working paper)

      • Nathan, Noah, and Ariel White. 2021. “Experiments on and with Street-Level Bureaucrats.” In Druckman, Jamie and Donald Green (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Advances in Experimental Political Science. (Pre-publication version) (Publisher’s version)

    Other Government Experiences / Policy feedback


      • Participatory Implications of Child Welfare System Contact (with Marie-Pascale Grimon, Rebecca Goldstein, Kelley Fong)(Conditionally accepted at JOP)(working paper)

    Other work (Media, Elections, Racial Attitudes, Experiments, Fairness, etc.)


      • Komisarchik, Mayya and Ariel White. 2025 “Throwing Away the Umbrella? Minority Voting After the Supreme Court’s Shelby Decision.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 20 (2), 269-305. (Publisher’s version)(working paper)

      • Reaching Returning Voters Through Social Ties (with Hannah Walker, Allison Harris, Jennifer Doleac)(working note)

      • Ansolabehere, Stephen, and Ariel White. 2018. “Policy, Politics, and Public Attitudes Towards the Supreme Court”. American Politics Research 48 (3), 365-376. (Publisher’s Version) (Replication Data)

      • Trump, Kris-Stella, and Ariel White. 2018. “Does Inequality Beget Inequality? Experimental Tests of the Prediction that Inequality Increases System Justification Motivation”. Journal of Experimental Political Science 5 (3): 206-216. (Publisher’s Version) (PDF Version)(Replication Data)

      • White, Ariel, Anton Strezhnev, Christopher Lucas, Dominika Kruszewska, and Connor Huff. 2018. “Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 5 (1), 56-67(Publisher’s Version) (PDF Version)(Replication Data)