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Associate Professor of Political Science

Publications

Forthcoming


White, Ariel, Paru Shah, Eric Gonzalez Juenke, and Bernard Fraga (In Press). “Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach”, British Journal of Political Science.(Publisher’s OnlineFirst version)(Working note version)(Replication data)

2024


Chizeck, Seth, Kelley Fong, Rebecca Goldstein, and Ariel White (2024). “Political Underrepresentation Among Public Benefits Recipients: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data”, Urban Affairs Review 60 (1), 420-434.(Publisher’s version)(Working note version)(Blog post)(Replication data)

2022


Ariel White, “Political Participation Amid Mass Incarceration.” Annual Review of Political Science 25:111-130. (Publisher’s version)

Nguyen, Avery and Ariel White, “How often do people vote while incarcerated? Evidence from Maine and Vermont,” Journal of Politics 84 (1), 568-572. (Publisher’s version)(Working note version)(Replication data)

Markovich, Zachary and Ariel White, “More Money, More Turnout? Minimum Wage Increases and Voting,” Journal of Politics 84 (3), 1834-1838. (Publisher’s version)(Working note version)(Replication data)(SI)(Blog post)

2021


Nathan, Noah, and Ariel White, “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)

2020


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

2019


White, Ariel. “Misdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The demobilizing effects of brief jail spells on potential voters”. American Political Science Review 113 (2): 311-324.
(Publisher’s Version) (Working paper version) (Replication Data)
Also: podcast episode, op-ed

White, Ariel.  “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)

2018


Trump, Kris-Stella, and Ariel White. “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.  “Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 5 (1), 56-67.  (Publisher’s Version) (PDF Version)(Replication Data)

White, Ariel, and Kris-Stella Trump.  “The Promises & Pitfalls of 311 Data”. Urban Affairs Review 54(4), 794­–823.
(Publisher’s Version) (PDF version)(Replication Data) (Online Appendix)

2017


Gary King, Benjamin Schneer, and Ariel White. 2017. “How the news media activate public expression and influence national agendas.” Science, 358:776-780. (Publisher’s Version) (PDF version)(Replication Data)

2016


Gay, Claudine, Jennifer Hochschild, and Ariel White. 2016. “Americans’ Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?”.  Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 1 (1) : 117-144. (Publisher’s Version) (PDF version) (Replication Data)

White, Ariel. 2016. “When Threat Mobilizes: Immigration Enforcement and Latino Voter Turnout”. Political Behavior 38 (2):355-382. (Publisher’s Version) (PDF version) (Replication Data)

2015


White, Ariel, Noah Nathan, and Julie Faller. 2015. “What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials”. American Political Science Review 109 (1):129-142. (Publisher’s Version) (pdf version)(Replication Data)(Online Appendix) 
MediaWashington Post’s Monkey Cage, NPR’s The Takeaway, and The Atlantic’s Citylab 
Also: cited in expert testimony
Also: received the Heinz Eulau award for best paper in APSR 2015https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f73v540gfg72yr2sdu0gs/Allegheny-County-voter-turnout-note_2021WPversion.pdf?rlkey=4ct8tmpowr9oz47907m2nq9bj&st=4lc3hfor&dl=0