Daniel Rubenson

Forthcoming:

• “‘Tie My Hands Loosely’: Preanalysis Plans in Political Science.”  Politics and the Life Sciences, forthcoming.
• “Who Votes More Strategically? Evidence From Canada” [with Andrew Eggers (University of Oxford) and Peter Loewen (UofT)]. The Journal of Politics, forthcoming.
• "Policy Deliberation and Voting Behavior: A Campaign Experiment in the Philippines" [with Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton University), Gabriel López-Moctezuma (CalTech), Cecilia Pe Lero (University of Notre Dame) and Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)]. American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

Published

• “Adoption of Community Monitoring Improves Common Pool Resource Management Across Contexts” [with Tara Slough (New York University), Ro’ee Levy (Yale University), et al.]. PINAS [Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America] 118:29 (20 July 2021): e2015367118 (external link, opens in new window) .
• "War Deaths Can Increase Support for Incumbents" [with Peter Lowewen (UofT)]. Canadian Journal of Political Science 54:2 (June 2021): 416-430.
  
• "Measuring Preferences and Behaviour in the 2019 Canadian Election Study" [with Laura Stephenson (Western), Allison Harell (UQAM), and Peter Loewen (UofT)].  Canadian Journal of Political Science 54:1 (March 2021): 118-124.
  
• "When do politicians pursue more policy information?" [with John McAndrews (UofT) and Peter Loewen (UofT)]. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 20 January 2021.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2020.42 (external link) 
  
• "Non-Electoral Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups: Evidence From an Unelected Legislature" [with John McAndrews (UofT), Jonah Goldberg (UofT), Peter Loewen (UofT), and Benjamin Allen Stevens (UofT)].  Legislative Studies Quarterly (04 November 2020): DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12310 (external link, opens in new window) .
• “The Pandemic, Politics, and Inequality (external link) " (concept note) [with Cyrus Samii (New York University), and Max Mendez-Beck (UC Berkeley)].  Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) 2020.
• “Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines” [with Gabriel López‐Moctezuma (Caltech), Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton), Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton), and Cecilia Pe Lero (University of São Paulo)]. American Journal of Political Science, 14 Oct 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12566 (external link) .
• "Maps in People's Heads as a New Measure for Context" [with Cara Wong (UIUC-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jake Bowers (UIUC-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mark Fredrickson (University of Michigan), and Ashlea Rundlett (University of Rhode Island)]. Political Science Research and Methods 8:1 (January 2020): 160-68.
• Duty and Choice: Voter Turnout and Choice in the World's Electoral Systems [ed. with Peter John Loewen (UofT)].  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  • "Choice and Duty: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters" [with Peter John Loewen (UofT) and Maxime Héroux-Legault (Concordia)].  In Duty and Choice: Voter Turnout and Choice in the World's Electoral Systems, ed. Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson, 3-18.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  • "The Future of Election Studies and the Study of Elections" [with Peter John Loewen (UofT) and André Blais (Montréal)]. In Duty and Choice: Voter Turnout and Choice in the World's Electoral Systems, ed. Peter John Loewen and Daniel Rubenson, 274-85.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• "Local Candidate Effects in Canadian Elections" [with Benjamin Allen Stevens (UofT), Md Mujahedul Islam (UofT), Roosmarijn de Geus (UofT), Jonah Goldberg (UofT), John McAndrews (UofT), Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki (Harvard), and Peter John Loewen (UofT)]. Canadian Journal of Political Science 52:1 (March 2019): 83-96.
• "Information on party strength and strategic voting: Evidence of non-effects from a randomized experiment" [with André Blais, (Université de Montréal), Peter John Loewen (UofT), Laura Stephenson (Western) and Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill)]. In The Many Faces of Strategic Voting: Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World, ed. John Aldrich, André Blais and Laura Stephenson, 89-104.  Ann Arbor, MI:  University of Michigan Press, 2018.
• "The Value of Preregistration for Open and Credible Science: An Initiative from the Journal of Experimental Political Science" [with Kevin Arceneaux (Temple University), Rick Wilson (Rice University), Cheryl Boudreau (University of California at Davis), Sarah Bush (Yale University), Jennifer Jerit (Stony Brook University), Jaime Settle (College of William & Mary), Betsy Sinclair (Washington University in St Louis), Jonathan Woon (University of Pittsburgh), Elizabeth Zechmeister (Vanderbilt University)]. Journal of Experimental Political Science 5:3 (Winter 2018): 165-6.
• "The Impact of News Photos on Support for Military Action" [with Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan), Peter Loewen (University of Toronto) and Patrick Fournier (Université de Montréal)]. Political Communication 33:4 (October 2016): 563–82.
  • This research was featured in David Trilling, "How news photos sway support for foreign wars (external link) ." Journalist’s Resource (Harvard University Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy): 14 October 2016.
• "Replication data for: 'The impact of news photos on support for military action' " [with Stuart Soroka (University of Michigan), Peter Loewen (University of Toronto), and Patrick Fournier (Université de Montréal)].  Harvard Dataverse, 27 October 2016. DOI (external link) 
• "Elements of Political Persuasion: Content, Charisma, and Cue" [with Torun Dewan (London School of Economics) and Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University)]. The Economic Journal 124 (February 2014): F257-F292.
• "The Source of Turnout Decline: New Values or New Contexts?" [with André Blais, (Université de Montréal)]. Comparative Political Studies 46:1 (January 2013): 95-117.
• "Geographic Mobility, Social Connections and Turnout" [with Keith Dowding (Australian National University) and Peter John (University College London)].  Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 22:2 (April 2012): 109-22.
• "Testing the Power of Arguments in Referendums: A Bradley-Terry Approach" [with Peter Loewen (UofT) and Arthur Spirling (Harvard)]. Electoral Studies 31 (2012): 212-21.
• "Experiments."  In Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science, 2nd ed., ed. Keith Archer and Loleen Berdahl, 200-211.  Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Entry on "Social Capital" in Encyclopedia of Power, ed. Keith Dowding.  Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 2011.
• "For want of a nail: Negative persuasion in a party leadership race" [with Peter John Loewen (UofT)].  Party Politics 17:1 (January 2011): 45-65.   
• "Help me help you: Conducting field experiments with political elites" [with Peter Loewen (UofT) and Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton)].  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 628:1 (March 2010): 165-75.
• "Strategies for dealing with nonoverlapping units of assignment and outcome measurement in field experiments" [with Ana De La O (Yale)].  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 628:1 (March 2010): 189-99.
• "Does Low Turnout Matter? Evidence from the 2000 Canadian General Election" [with André Blais (UdeM), Patrick Fournier (UdeM), Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill), and Neil Nevitte (UofT)]. Electoral Studies 26:3 (September 2007): 589-97.
• "Accounting for the Age Gap in Turnout" [with André Blais (UdeM), Patrick Fournier (UdeM), Elisabeth Gidengil (McGill), and Neil Nevitte (UofT)]. Acta Politica 39:4 (2004): 407–21.
• "Tennis och Politik: Är Deltagadande en Dygd?" (“Tennis and Politics: Is Political Participation a Virtue?”) [with Andreas Bergh (Lund)]. In En Uthållig Demokrati? Sju Repliker till Demokratiutredningen, ed. Jesper Strömbäck, 12-41. Uppsala: Uppsala Publishing House, 2001.

• "Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia," [with Erica Field (Duke), Leigh Linden (UT Austin), Ofer Malamud (University of Chicago) and Shing-Yi Wang (UPenn)]. 2019. NBER Working Paper No. 26092.
• "Democratic Competition Increases Voter Participation" [with Peter Loewen(UofT) and Ryan Moore (WUSTL)].
• "Does the Context Fit the Outcome: When (or Where) Context Should Affect Politics"[with Cara Wong (Illinois@U-C), Jake Bowers (Illinois@U-C), Mark Fredrikson (Illinois@U-C) and Ashlea Rundlett (Illinois@U-C)].
• "The End of Majorities: The Transformation of Cleavage Politics in Advanced Democracies" [with Marc André Bodet (Laval)].
• "Interaction and Malefaction" [with Richard Walker (Northwestern)].

Dr. Rubenson’s research interests are in comparative politics, generally. Specifically, he works on questions of political behaviour, political participation, campaigns, political communication and the political economy of development. While he employs a variety of methods - including field (and other) experiments, econometric analysis, qualitative methods and survey work - he is focused on using identification driven designs to draw causal inferences about politics. Mostly this involves using field experiments in cooperation with political campaigns, organizations and policy makers.

He is a Principal Investigator of the current Canadian Election Study (external link)  (CES) and one of the leads of the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (external link)  (C-Dem). His current projects include large scale field experiments on the effects of property rights on economic, social and political outcomes; a series of SSHRC funded studies on how citizen preferences shape the behaviour of politicians; a second SSHRC funded project on the effects of perceptions of the racial and ethnic diversity of communities on political participation and attitudes; and a series of papers examining how images of and information about war affects behaviour and attitudes. 

His research has been featured in various media including the CBC, Maclean's, the Toronto Star, the National Post, TVO's “The Agenda,” CTV, and the Canadian Press.

Dr. Rubenson is a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP), a member researcher of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in New Haven and a faculty affiliate with the Centre for Public Opinion and Representation at Simon Fraser University.