Research

Punishment and Democracy

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Review and Description

• Ariel White. 2022. “Political Participation Amid Mass Incarceration.” Annual Review of Political Science 25:111-130. (Publisher’s version)
• Nguyen, Avery and Ariel White. 2022. “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)

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.
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Civic Reincorporation

 
• • “No longer a number”: Testing new ways to find and engage newly-reenfranchised people in New Jersey (with Hannah Walker, Melissa Michelson, Sam Roth)(R&R 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

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• • 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)
• • 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) 
    
    • • Media: Washington 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 2015

 

Other Government Experiences / Policy feedback

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• • Participatory Implications of Child Welfare System Contact (with Marie-Pascale Grimon, Rebecca Goldstein, Kelley Fong)(Conditionally accepted at JOP)(working paper)
• • 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)
• • Markovich, Zachary and Ariel White. 2022. “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)
• • 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)
 

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

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• • 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)
• • White, Ariel, Paru Shah, Eric Gonzalez Juenke, and Bernard Fraga. 2024. “Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach”, British Journal of Political Science.(Publisher’s OnlineFirst version)(Working note version)(Replication data)
• • 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)
• • 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)
• • White, Ariel, and Kris-Stella Trump. 2016. “The Promises & Pitfalls of 311 Data”. Urban Affairs Review 54(4), 794­–823.
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• • 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)