CV & Data
- Download a pdf copy of my CV
- Datasets from my studies are available at the ISPS Data Archive and dataverse.org
Books
Anderson, Sarah E., Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong. 2020. Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Fear of Primary Voters. Cambridge University Press.
Butler, Daniel M. 2014. Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Butler, Daniel M. 2014. Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Butler, Daniel M., Joseph Sutherland. Forthcoming. “Have State Policy Agendas Become More Nationalized?” Journal of Politics
Butler, Daniel M., Elin Naurin, and Patrik Öhberg. 2022. “Constituents Ask Female Legislators to do More.” Journal of Politics
Anderson, Sarah E., Daniel M. Butler, Laurgel Harbridge-Yong, and G. Augustin Markarian. Forthcoming. “Driving Legislators’ Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes” Legislative Studies Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12366
Butler, Daniel M., and Thad Kousser. Forthcoming. "Do Male and Female Legislators have Different Twitter Communication Styles?" State Politics & Policy Quarterly
Butler, Daniel M., and Scott W. Desposato. 2022. “Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies.” Political Studies Review 20 (2): 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211052910
Butler, Daniel M., Adam Hughes, Craig Volden, and Alan Wiseman. Forthcoming. "Do Constituents Know (or Care) about the Lawmaking Effectiveness of their Representatives?" Political Science Research and Methods https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.66
Butler, Daniel M., Margit Tavits, and Dino Hadzic. Forthcoming. “Gender Bias in Policy Representation in Post-Conflict Societies” Political Research Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211045020
Butler, Daniel M., and David R. Miller. Forthcoming. “Does Lobbying Affect Bill Advancement? Evidence from Three State Legislatures” Political Research Quarterly 75 (3): 547-561. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211012481
Butler, Daniel M. 2021. “Insights from the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition on Polarization in the US Senate.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 16 (3): 359-386. doi.org/10.1561/100.00019219
Butler, Daniel M., and Margit Tavits. 2021. “Shared Interests Foster Interethnic Cooperation Among Politicians.” Political Science Research and Methods 9 (3): 627-640
Butler, Daniel M., and Adam M. Dynes. 2020. “Do Republican and Democratic Legislators Have Polarized Views of Their District’s Demographics?” Research & Politics 7 (3): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168020953307.
Nemerever, Zoe, and Daniel M. Butler. 2020. “The Source of the Professionalism Advantage: Attracting More Knowledgeable Candidates.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 20 (4): 416-436.
Butler, Daniel M. 2020. “Elections and Uncertain Decisions in Politics: A Survey Experiment with U.S. Municipal Officials.” British Journal of Political Science 50 (3): 933-954. doi:10.1017/S0007123417000813
Butler, Daniel M., Catherine De Vries, and Hector Solaz. 2019. “Studying Policy Diffusion at the Individual Level: Experiments on Nationalistic Biases in Information Seeking.” Research and Politics 6 (4): 1-7. doi:10.1177/2053168019891619
Butler, Daniel M. 2019. “Facilitating Field Experiments at the Subnational Level.” Journal of Politics 81 (1): 371-376.
Butler, Daniel M., and Hans Hassell. 2018. “On the Limits of Officials' Ability to Change Citizens' Priorities: A Field Experiment in Local Politics” American Political Science Review 112 (4): 860-873.
Butler, Daniel M., and Miguel M. Pereira. 2018. “TRENDS: How does Partisanship Influence Policy Diffusion?” Political Research Quarterly 71 (4), 801–812.
Butler, Daniel M., and Miguel M. Pereira. 2018. “Are Donations to Charity an Effective Incentive for Public Officials?” Journal of Experimental Political Science 5 (1): 68-70.
Butler, Daniel M., Elin Naurin, Patrik Öhberg. 2017. “Party Representatives' Adaptation to Election Results: Dyadic Responsiveness Revisited.” Comparative Political Studies 50 (14): 1973-1997.
Butler, Daniel M., and Charles Crabtree. 2017. “Moving Beyond Measurement: Adapting Audit Studies to Test Bias-Reducing Interventions” Journal of Experimental Political Science 4 (1): 57-67.
Butler, Daniel M., and Margit Tavits. 2017. “Does the Hijab Increase Representatives’ Perceptions of Social Distance?” Journal of Politics 79 (2): 727-731.
Broockman, David E., and Daniel M. Butler. 2017. “The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication.” American Journal of Political Science 61 (1): 208-221.
Butler, Daniel M., Craig Volden, Adam Dynes, and Boris Shor. 2017. “Ideology, Learning and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence.” American Journal of Political Science 61 (1): 37-49.
Butler, Daniel M., and Jonathan Homola. 2017. “An Empirical Justification for the Use of Racially Distinctive Names to Signal Race in Experiments.” Political Analysis 25 (1): 122-130.
Butler, Daniel M., Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy Pope. 2017. “Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress.” Political Science Research and Methods 5 (2): 351-366.
Butler, Daniel M., and Adam Dynes. 2016. “How Politicians Discount the Opinions of Constituents with Whom They Disagree.” American Journal of Political Science 60 (4): 975-989.
Butler, Daniel M., and Jessica Preece. 2016. “Recruitment and perceptions of gender bias in party leader support.” Political Research Quarterly 69 (4): 842-851.
Barber, Michael, Daniel M. Butler, and Jessica Preece. 2016. “Gender Inequalities in Campaign Finance.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 11 (2): 219-248.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge. 2016. “Legislative Institutions as a Source of Party Leaders' Influence..” Legislative Studies Quarterly 41 (3): 605-631.
Arceneaux, Kevin, and Daniel M. Butler. 2016. “How Not to Increase Participation in Local Government: The Advantages of Experiments when Testing Policy Interventions.” Public Administration Review 76 (1): 131-139.
Butler, Daniel M. 2016. “Critical Dialogue with James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs.” Perspectives on Politics 14 (3): 821-825.
Butler, Daniel M., and Thad Kousser. 2015. “How do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games?” Legislative Studies Quarterly 40 (2): 211-240.
Broockman, David E., and Daniel M. Butler. 2015. “Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2 (2): 152-163.
Butler, Daniel M., and Eleanor Neff Powell. 2014. “Understanding the Party Brand: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Valence.” Journal of Politics 76 (2): 492-505.
Butler, Daniel M., Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2012. “A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Style: Service versus Policy.” Journal of Politics 74 (2): 474-486.
Butler, Daniel M., and David W. Nickerson. 2011. “Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect how Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6 (1): 55-83.
Butler, Daniel M., and David E. Broockman. 2011. “Do Politicians Racially Discriminate against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators.” American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 463-477.
Butler, Daniel M., and Ana L. De La O. 2011. “The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5 (4): 321-337.
Butler, Daniel M., and Richard J. Butler. 2011. “The Internet’s Effect on Women’s Coauthoring Rates and Academic Job Market Decisions: The Case of Political Science.” Economics of Education Review 30 (4): 665-672.
Nie, Norman H., Derwin W. Miller, III, Saar Golde, Daniel M. Butler, and Kenneth Winneg. 2010. “The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market.” American Journal of Political Science 54 (2): 428-439.
Butler, Daniel M. and Emily Schofield. 2010. “Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment.” American Politics Research 38 (2): 356-371.
Butler, Daniel M. 2009. “The Effect of the Size of Voting Blocs on Incumbents' Roll-Call Voting and the Asymmetric Polarization of Congress.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 34 (3): 297-318.
Butler, Daniel M. 2009. “A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House.” Electoral Studies 28 (1): 123-128.
Butler, Daniel M., Richard J. Butler, and Jesse Rich. 2008. “The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics.” PS: Political Science and Politics 41 (3): 579-584.
Wilson, Sven, and Daniel M. Butler. 2007. “A Lot More To Do: The Sensitivity of Time–Series Cross-Section Analyses to Simple Alternative Specifications.” Political Analysis 15 (2): 101-123.
Butler, Daniel M., and Matthew J. Butler. 2006. “Splitting the Difference? Causal Inference and Theories of Split-party Delegations.” Political Analysis 14 (4): 439-455.
Butler, Daniel M. and Ray Christensen. 2003. “Mixing and Matching: The Effect on Student Performance of Teaching Assistants of the Same Gender.” PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (October): 781-786.
Butler, Daniel M., Elin Naurin, and Patrik Öhberg. 2022. “Constituents Ask Female Legislators to do More.” Journal of Politics
Anderson, Sarah E., Daniel M. Butler, Laurgel Harbridge-Yong, and G. Augustin Markarian. Forthcoming. “Driving Legislators’ Policy Preferences: Constituent Commutes and Gas Taxes” Legislative Studies Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12366
Butler, Daniel M., and Thad Kousser. Forthcoming. "Do Male and Female Legislators have Different Twitter Communication Styles?" State Politics & Policy Quarterly
Butler, Daniel M., and Scott W. Desposato. 2022. “Proposing a Compensation Requirement for Audit Studies.” Political Studies Review 20 (2): 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211052910
Butler, Daniel M., Adam Hughes, Craig Volden, and Alan Wiseman. Forthcoming. "Do Constituents Know (or Care) about the Lawmaking Effectiveness of their Representatives?" Political Science Research and Methods https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.66
Butler, Daniel M., Margit Tavits, and Dino Hadzic. Forthcoming. “Gender Bias in Policy Representation in Post-Conflict Societies” Political Research Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211045020
Butler, Daniel M., and David R. Miller. Forthcoming. “Does Lobbying Affect Bill Advancement? Evidence from Three State Legislatures” Political Research Quarterly 75 (3): 547-561. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211012481
Butler, Daniel M. 2021. “Insights from the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition on Polarization in the US Senate.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 16 (3): 359-386. doi.org/10.1561/100.00019219
Butler, Daniel M., and Margit Tavits. 2021. “Shared Interests Foster Interethnic Cooperation Among Politicians.” Political Science Research and Methods 9 (3): 627-640
Butler, Daniel M., and Adam M. Dynes. 2020. “Do Republican and Democratic Legislators Have Polarized Views of Their District’s Demographics?” Research & Politics 7 (3): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168020953307.
Nemerever, Zoe, and Daniel M. Butler. 2020. “The Source of the Professionalism Advantage: Attracting More Knowledgeable Candidates.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 20 (4): 416-436.
Butler, Daniel M. 2020. “Elections and Uncertain Decisions in Politics: A Survey Experiment with U.S. Municipal Officials.” British Journal of Political Science 50 (3): 933-954. doi:10.1017/S0007123417000813
Butler, Daniel M., Catherine De Vries, and Hector Solaz. 2019. “Studying Policy Diffusion at the Individual Level: Experiments on Nationalistic Biases in Information Seeking.” Research and Politics 6 (4): 1-7. doi:10.1177/2053168019891619
Butler, Daniel M. 2019. “Facilitating Field Experiments at the Subnational Level.” Journal of Politics 81 (1): 371-376.
Butler, Daniel M., and Hans Hassell. 2018. “On the Limits of Officials' Ability to Change Citizens' Priorities: A Field Experiment in Local Politics” American Political Science Review 112 (4): 860-873.
Butler, Daniel M., and Miguel M. Pereira. 2018. “TRENDS: How does Partisanship Influence Policy Diffusion?” Political Research Quarterly 71 (4), 801–812.
Butler, Daniel M., and Miguel M. Pereira. 2018. “Are Donations to Charity an Effective Incentive for Public Officials?” Journal of Experimental Political Science 5 (1): 68-70.
Butler, Daniel M., Elin Naurin, Patrik Öhberg. 2017. “Party Representatives' Adaptation to Election Results: Dyadic Responsiveness Revisited.” Comparative Political Studies 50 (14): 1973-1997.
Butler, Daniel M., and Charles Crabtree. 2017. “Moving Beyond Measurement: Adapting Audit Studies to Test Bias-Reducing Interventions” Journal of Experimental Political Science 4 (1): 57-67.
Butler, Daniel M., and Margit Tavits. 2017. “Does the Hijab Increase Representatives’ Perceptions of Social Distance?” Journal of Politics 79 (2): 727-731.
Broockman, David E., and Daniel M. Butler. 2017. “The Causal Effects of Elite Position-Taking on Voter Attitudes: Field Experiments with Elite Communication.” American Journal of Political Science 61 (1): 208-221.
Butler, Daniel M., Craig Volden, Adam Dynes, and Boris Shor. 2017. “Ideology, Learning and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence.” American Journal of Political Science 61 (1): 37-49.
Butler, Daniel M., and Jonathan Homola. 2017. “An Empirical Justification for the Use of Racially Distinctive Names to Signal Race in Experiments.” Political Analysis 25 (1): 122-130.
Butler, Daniel M., Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy Pope. 2017. “Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress.” Political Science Research and Methods 5 (2): 351-366.
Butler, Daniel M., and Adam Dynes. 2016. “How Politicians Discount the Opinions of Constituents with Whom They Disagree.” American Journal of Political Science 60 (4): 975-989.
Butler, Daniel M., and Jessica Preece. 2016. “Recruitment and perceptions of gender bias in party leader support.” Political Research Quarterly 69 (4): 842-851.
Barber, Michael, Daniel M. Butler, and Jessica Preece. 2016. “Gender Inequalities in Campaign Finance.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 11 (2): 219-248.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge. 2016. “Legislative Institutions as a Source of Party Leaders' Influence..” Legislative Studies Quarterly 41 (3): 605-631.
Arceneaux, Kevin, and Daniel M. Butler. 2016. “How Not to Increase Participation in Local Government: The Advantages of Experiments when Testing Policy Interventions.” Public Administration Review 76 (1): 131-139.
Butler, Daniel M. 2016. “Critical Dialogue with James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs.” Perspectives on Politics 14 (3): 821-825.
- Editor Invited Contribution
Butler, Daniel M., and Thad Kousser. 2015. “How do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games?” Legislative Studies Quarterly 40 (2): 211-240.
Broockman, David E., and Daniel M. Butler. 2015. “Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2 (2): 152-163.
Butler, Daniel M., and Eleanor Neff Powell. 2014. “Understanding the Party Brand: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Valence.” Journal of Politics 76 (2): 492-505.
Butler, Daniel M., Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2012. “A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Style: Service versus Policy.” Journal of Politics 74 (2): 474-486.
Butler, Daniel M., and David W. Nickerson. 2011. “Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect how Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6 (1): 55-83.
Butler, Daniel M., and David E. Broockman. 2011. “Do Politicians Racially Discriminate against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators.” American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 463-477.
- Chosen by Editors of Science for “Editor’s Choice: Highlights of the recent literature. Volume 333, Number 6041, Issue of 22 July 2011.
- Online Appendix
Butler, Daniel M., and Ana L. De La O. 2011. “The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5 (4): 321-337.
Butler, Daniel M., and Richard J. Butler. 2011. “The Internet’s Effect on Women’s Coauthoring Rates and Academic Job Market Decisions: The Case of Political Science.” Economics of Education Review 30 (4): 665-672.
- Chosen by Editors of Science for “Editor’s Choice: Highlights of the recent literature. Volume 334, Number 6055, Issue of 28 October 2011.
- Online Appendix
Nie, Norman H., Derwin W. Miller, III, Saar Golde, Daniel M. Butler, and Kenneth Winneg. 2010. “The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market.” American Journal of Political Science 54 (2): 428-439.
Butler, Daniel M. and Emily Schofield. 2010. “Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment.” American Politics Research 38 (2): 356-371.
Butler, Daniel M. 2009. “The Effect of the Size of Voting Blocs on Incumbents' Roll-Call Voting and the Asymmetric Polarization of Congress.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 34 (3): 297-318.
Butler, Daniel M. 2009. “A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House.” Electoral Studies 28 (1): 123-128.
Butler, Daniel M., Richard J. Butler, and Jesse Rich. 2008. “The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics.” PS: Political Science and Politics 41 (3): 579-584.
Wilson, Sven, and Daniel M. Butler. 2007. “A Lot More To Do: The Sensitivity of Time–Series Cross-Section Analyses to Simple Alternative Specifications.” Political Analysis 15 (2): 101-123.
Butler, Daniel M., and Matthew J. Butler. 2006. “Splitting the Difference? Causal Inference and Theories of Split-party Delegations.” Political Analysis 14 (4): 439-455.
Butler, Daniel M. and Ray Christensen. 2003. “Mixing and Matching: The Effect on Student Performance of Teaching Assistants of the Same Gender.” PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (October): 781-786.
- Reprinted in 2005. Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS. Ed. David A. Rochefort.
Book Chapters + Other Writings
Butler, Daniel M. Review of Congress in Reverse: Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present. By Jordan M. Ragusa and Nathaniel A. Birkhead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Perspectives on Politics 2021.
Butler, Daniel M., and Charles Crabtree. 2021. “Audit Studies in Political Science.” In James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green. Advances in Experimental Science Cambridge University Press.
Winneg, Kenneth, Daniel M. Butler, Saar Golde, Darwin W. Miller III, and Norman H. Nie. 2017. “Online news consumption in the U.S. and ideological extremism.” In Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Communication. New York: Oxford University of Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.021
Butler, Daniel M. 2020. “Models of Representation: Delegate versus Trustee.” In ABC-CLIO titled Voting and Political Representation in America: Issues and Trends, Ed. Mark Jones. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong. 2018. “When Half a Loaf Isn’t Better Than No Loaf at All: Gridlock and Legislators’ Rejection of Compromise.” The Legislative Scholar: The Newsletter of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association 3(1): 11-12.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong. 2018. “Closed-Door Compromise—If Politicians Will Show Up.” Democracy Papers Series run by the Social Science Research Council. January 23, 2018. https://items.ssrc.org/closed-door-compromise-if-politicians-will-show-up/
Butler, Daniel M. 2010. “Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance.” Public Sector Digest 2010 (winter): 41-44.
Butler, Daniel M., and Charles Crabtree. 2021. “Audit Studies in Political Science.” In James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green. Advances in Experimental Science Cambridge University Press.
Winneg, Kenneth, Daniel M. Butler, Saar Golde, Darwin W. Miller III, and Norman H. Nie. 2017. “Online news consumption in the U.S. and ideological extremism.” In Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Communication. New York: Oxford University of Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.021
Butler, Daniel M. 2020. “Models of Representation: Delegate versus Trustee.” In ABC-CLIO titled Voting and Political Representation in America: Issues and Trends, Ed. Mark Jones. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong. 2018. “When Half a Loaf Isn’t Better Than No Loaf at All: Gridlock and Legislators’ Rejection of Compromise.” The Legislative Scholar: The Newsletter of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association 3(1): 11-12.
Anderson, Sarah, Daniel M. Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong. 2018. “Closed-Door Compromise—If Politicians Will Show Up.” Democracy Papers Series run by the Social Science Research Council. January 23, 2018. https://items.ssrc.org/closed-door-compromise-if-politicians-will-show-up/
Butler, Daniel M. 2010. “Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance.” Public Sector Digest 2010 (winter): 41-44.
