Jonathan Nagler

I am a Professor of Politics, as well as a co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP).  I am also the Director of the Politics Data Center. Along with research on the impact of social media on voter behavior and attitudes, I co-authored a book on voter turnout in the United States from 1972-2008 (Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States , Princeton University Press, 2014). 

I am working on projects on the impact of economics on elections, and on the impact of social media on political participation. The CSMaP website describes our work. Check it out if you are interested.

Papers

• "Methodological Challenges in Estimating Tone: Application to News Coverage of the U.S. Economy'', (with Pablo Barberá, Amber Boydstun, Suzanna Linn, and Ryan McMahon), presented at the Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September, 2016.
  

• "Learning (and Unlearning) from the Media and Political Parties: Evidence from the 2015 UK Election'', (with Kevin Munger, Patrick Egan, Jonathan Ronen, and Joshua A. Tucker), presented at the Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September, 2016.

• "Tweeting From Left to Right: Is Online Political Communication More than an Echo Chamber?'',  Pscyhological Science, 2015, 26 (10), 1531-1542. (with Pablo Barberá, John T. Jost, Joshua A. Tucker, and Richard Bonneau).
  

• "Social Networks and Protest Participation: Evidence from 130 Million Twitter Users'',  (with Jennifer M. Larson, Jonathan Ronen, and Joshua A. Tucker), August, 2016.
  

• "Of Echo Chambers and Contrarian Clubs: Exposure to Political Disagreement among German and Italian Users of Twitter'', Social Media + Society, 2016, 2 (3).  (with Cristian Vaccari, Augusto Valeriani, Pablo Barberá , Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Joshua Tucker).
  

• "The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests'',  PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(11). (with Pablo Barberá, Ning Wang, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, Joshua Tucker, and Sandra González-Bailón).
  

• "Political Expression and Action on Social Media: Exploring the Relationship Between Lower- and Higher-Threshold Political Activities Among Twitter Users in Italy'',  Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2015, 20(2), 221-239. (with Cristian Vaccari, Augusto Valeriani, Pablo Barberá, Richard Bonneau, John T. Jost, and Joshua Tucker). 
  

• "Voter Behavior in California's Top 2 Primary'', California Journal of Public Policy, 2015, 7(1).
  

• "Drawing Inferences and Testing Theories with Big Data'', PS: Political Science & Politics, 2015, 48(1): 84-88. (with Joshua A. Tucker).

• "Economic Voting and Economic Inequality: US Presidential Elections 1952-2012", (with Suzanna Linn), presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting for the Midwest Political Science Assocation
• "Economic Conditions, Economic Perceptions, and Media Coverage of the United States Economy", (with Pablo Barberá, Amber Boydstudn, and Suzanna Linn), presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
• "Comparing Opinions and Preferences across States and Regions: The Fallacy of using Ideological Responses" (with Lindsey Cormack)
• "Electoral Laws and Turnout, 1978-2008" (Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference in Empirical Legal Studies, November 2009, University of Southern California)
• "Who Votes Now? And Does it Matter?" (with Jan E. Leighley)
• "Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1972-2004" (with Jan E. Leighley)
• "The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns" (with Marisa A. Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez)
• "Unions and Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1964-2004" (with Jan E. Leighley)
• "Do Voters Really Care Who Gets What?: Economic Growth, Economic Redistribution, and Presidential Popularity" (with Suzanna De Boef)
• "A Method for Weighting Survey Samples of Low-Incidence Voters" (with R. Michael Alvarez)
• "Race-Based versus Issue Voting: A Natural Experiment: The 2001 City of Los Angeles Elections" (with Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez)
• "Economics, Entitlements and Social Issues: Voter Choice in the 1996 Presidential Election" (with R. Michael Alvarez) (JSTOR access required)
• "Economic Conditions and Presidential Elections" (with Jennifer R. Niemann)
• "Explaining the Gender Gap U.S. Presidential Elections, 1980-1992" (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez) (JSTOR access required)
• "Explaining the Gender Gap in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election" (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez)
• "When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multi-Party Elections" (with R. Michael Alvarez) (JSTOR access required)
• "Issues, Economics, and the Dynamics of Multi-Party Elections: The British 1987 General Election" (with R. Michael Alvarez and Shaun Bowler)
• "Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election" (with R. Michael Alvarez)
• "Coding Style and Good Computing Practices"