Books
McDonald, Jared. Feeling their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care. 2024. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rouse, Stella, Jared McDonald, Richard Engstrom, Michael Hanmer, Christopher Carman, Roberto Gonzalez, Siugmin Lay, and Daniel Miranda. Citizens of the World: Political Engagement and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe. 2023. New York: Oxford University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
MacInnis, Bo, Jon A. Krosnick, and Jared McDonald. “Resistance to Purchasing All-Electric Vehicles: Evidence from a National Survey.” (Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Psychology).
McDonald, Jared, and Michael Hanmer. 2025. “Evaluating Methods for Examining the Relative Persuasiveness of Policy Arguments.” Political Science Research and Methods, 13(1): 229-236.
Mohr, Zach, Jared McDonald, Suzanne Leland, and Jaclyn Piatak. 2023. “Is Government Escaping Blame? The Effect of Contracting and Victim Attributes in a Prisoner Transportation Experiment.” Public Management Review, 26(11): 3082–3103.
McDonald, Jared and Melissa Deckman. 2023. “New Voters, New Attitudes: How Gen Z Americans Rate Candidates with Respect to Generation, Gender, and Race.” Politics, Groups, & Identities, 11(2): 345-365.
Deckman, Melissa, and Jared McDonald. 2023. “Uninspired by Old White Guys: The Mobilizing Factor of Younger, More Diverse Candidates for Gen Z Women.” Politics & Gender, 19(1): 195-219.
Scott, Zachary and Jared McDonald. 2022. “Tell Us How You Feel: Emotional Appeals for Votes in Presidential Primaries.” American Politics Research, 50(5): 609-622.
McDonald, Jared and Jaclyn Piatak. 2022. “Penalties for Going Against Type: How Candidate Gender Shapes Leadership Perceptions.” Behavioral Science and Policy, 8(2): 47-56.
Croco, Sarah E., Jared McDonald, and Candace Turitto. 2022. “The Face of the Problem: How Subordinates Shield Executives from Blame.” Journal of Experimental Political Science, 9(3): 359–368.
Piatak, Jaclyn, Zachary Mohr, and Jared McDonald. 2022. “Rule Formalization and Gender Congruence: Examining Prosocial Rule Breaking for Internal and External Stakeholders.” International Public Management Journal, 25(4): 566-584.
Piatak, Jaclyn, Zachary Mohr, and Jared McDonald. 2022. “The Role of Gender in Government and Nonprofit Workplaces: An Experimental Analysis of Rule Compliance and Supervisor Trust.” Public Administration Review, 82(3): 556-569.
Bryant, Lisa, Michael Hanmer, Alauna Safarpour and Jared McDonald. 2022. “The Power of the State: How Postcards from the State Increased Registration and Turnout in Pennsylvania.” Political Behavior, 44(2): 535-549.
McDonald, Jared. 2021. “Who Cares? Explaining Perceptions of Compassion in Candidates for Office.” Political Behavior, 43(4): 1371-1394.
Croco, Sarah, Michael Hanmer, and Jared McDonald. 2021. “At What Cost? Reexamining Audience Costs in Realistic Settings.” Journal of Politics, 83(1): 8-22.
McDonald, Jared and James Igoe Walsh. 2021. “The Costs of Conflict and Support for the Use of Force: Accounting for Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments.” Journal of Experimental Political Science, 8(2): 195-202.
Croco, Sarah, Jared McDonald, and Candace Turitto. 2021. “Making them Pay: Using the Norm of Honesty to Generate Costs for Political Lies.” Electoral Studies, 69: 1-12.
Deckman, Melissa, Jared McDonald, Stella Rouse, and Mileah Kromer. 2020. “Gen Z, Gender, and COVID-19.” Politics & Gender, 16(4): 1019-1027.
McDonald, Jared, David Karol, and Lilliana Mason. 2020. “‘An Inherited Money Dude from Queens County’: How Unseen Candidate Characteristics Affect Voter Perceptions.” Political Behavior, 42(3): 915-938.
McDonald, Jared. 2020. “Avoiding the Hypothetical: Why ‘Mirror Experiments’ are an Essential Part of Survey Research.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 32(2): 266-283.
McDonald, Jared, Sarah Croco, and Candace Turitto. 2019. “Teflon Don or Politics as Usual? An Examination of Foreign Policy Flip-Flops in the Age of Trump.” Journal of Politics, 81(2): 757-766.
McDonald, Jared, Zachary Scott, and Michael Hanmer. 2017. “Using Self-Prophecy to Combat Vote Overreporting on Public Opinion Surveys.” Electoral Studies, 50: 137-141.
Working Papers
Piatak, Jaclyn, Jared McDonald, Shannon Portillo, Zachary Mohr. “The Influence of Race, Gender, and Intersectionality on Leadership Perceptions: Examining Employee Rule Following, Trust, and Trait Assessments.” (Under revise and resubmit at International Public Management Journal)
McDonald, Jared, Alauna Safarpour, Lisa Bryant, and Michael Hanmer. “Assessing the Validity of Attacks on the Electronic Registration Information Center.” (Under Review)
McDonald, Jared, Sebastian Lundmark, Adina Abeles, Jon Krosnick, and Bo MacInnis. “Testing the Effect and Causal Pathway of Elite Cues on Global Warming Attitudes.” (Under review).
Scott, Zachary and Jared McDonald. “Mood Swings: National Mood and Candidates’ Emotion Appeals.” (Under review).
McDonald, Jared, Jordy Santana, and Andrew Palczewski. “Messaging in a Crisis: How Mythic Frames Shape American Perceptions of Foreign Conflicts.”
McDonald, Jared, Zachary Mohr, and Jaclyn Piatak. “Gender, Position, and Messaging: An Examination of Policy Support and Perceptions of Leaders.”
McDonald, Jared, Daniel Biggers, and Michael Hanmer. “Who Should be Heard? Exploring the Conditions under Which Americans Support Lowering the Voting Age to 16.”
Data Collections
Survey programming and data analysis on “Advanced Meta-Experimental Protocol (AMP)” (with Jan Walleczek and Jon Krosnick). Funded through the Fetzer Franklin Fund. 2020-2021.
Survey programming and data analysis on “Political Violence in the U.S. & Beyond: Measures, Benchmarks, and Interventions” (with Lilliana Mason and Nathan Kalmoe). Funded through the Facebook Research Grant program. Spring 2019.
Data collection and analysis on field experiments aimed to increase registration rates in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Summer 2017.
Survey programming and data analysis on “The Role of Self-Esteem in Driving American Partisanship and Partisan Sorting” (with Lilliana Mason). Funded through a grant from the University of Maryland, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Dean’s Research Initiative. Summer 2016.
Data collection and analysis on state compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (with Michael Hanmer, Doug Hess, and David Nickerson). Funded through a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Fall 2015.
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