Research - Adam J. Berinsky

Research

Books

Recently, I have been studying public opinion concerning foreign policy. I just completed a study of public opinion and war. Look for In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq from the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2009. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to the book's Amazon page. Click here to download a pre-copy version of the introduction and table of contents. If you are interested in the full manuscript, please contact me.

Princeton University Press published my book Silent Voices: Opinion Polls and Political Representation in America in 2004. Here is a brief Q&A from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the findings from the book. Click on the cover to the left to be taken to Amazon, where the book is now available for purchase. Click here to download a pre-copy edited version of the introduction and table of contents.

Reprints of Published Papers

Click here to see a list of reprints of my published papers, including links and abstracts.

Working Papers

Click here to see a list of my working papers, including links and abstracts.

Ongoing Projects

I have some materials relating to my new project on public opinion during the 1930s and 1940s. (See the top of this page for information about the book.) “Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s: The Analysis of Quota Controlled Sample Survey Data” is a methodological piece. In the paper, I describe the manner in which the polling data from the 1930s and 1940s was collected and advance a set of methods to analyze the data from this time. This paper has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly. “Assuming The Costs of War: Events, Elites, and The American Public” presents evidence from World War II and the War in Iraq to demonstrate that elite-driven theories of public support for war are more persuasive then unmediated event-driven explanations. This paper has been published at Journal of Politics. Additionally, Eric Shickler (Berkeley) and I have received an NSF grant for the larger data reclamation project we are undertaking. Click here to view the new Dataverse page, including data documentation and links to cleaned data. As of Summer 2009, this page is not yet fully functional. Please check back again soon.

Statement of Research

Click here for my statement of research.