Neil S. Williams
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Research Projects

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My dissertation examines the foundations and effects of democratic support in the mass public. More specifically, in my dissertation I:
  • Conduct meta-analyses to investigate the impact of sex and electoral winner status on satisfaction with democracy. 
  • Propose a novel expressive dimension of democratic support which critically reexamines how people form democratic connections.
    • Develop measurement items to evaluate expressive connections to democracy
  • Field a survey experiment to evaluate the effects of elite decision-making on democratic legitimacy, including differences across partisan identification and racial groups.
    • Working chapter: "The Partisan and Racialized Relationship Between Unilateral Decisions and Democratic Legitimacy"
Published Work
  • Shane P. Singh and Neil S. Williams. 2021. “What Type of Democracy Do Chileans Want?” Research & Politics. 8(3): 1-8
    • ​Harvard Dataverse Replication
  • Neil S. Williams, Alexandra Snipes, & Shane P. Singh. 2021. “Gender Differences in the Impact of Winning on Satisfaction with Democracy”. Electoral Studies 69(1): 102205.
    • Harvard Dataverse Replication
  • Shane P. Singh & Neil S. Williams. 2021. “Compulsory Voting: The View from Canada and the United States”. In Matteo Bonotti & Paul Strangio (Eds.), A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia: Genesis, Impact and Future (Chapter 10). Palgrave Macmillan, 235-258
Working Projects (Under Review)
  • "The Relationship Between Targeted Social Assistance and Political Participation". Revise and Resubmit
  • "Public Responses to Engineering Equality: Gender Quotas and Satisfaction with Democracy", with Alexandra Snipes. Under Review.
  • "From Plantation Sugar to a Bittersweet Democracy: Black Democratic Attitudes in the English-Speaking Caribbean". Under Review
​Working Projects (In Progress)
  • "Representation in US State Legislatures and Satisfaction with Democracy", with Elise Blasingame​
  • "Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter", with Karlee Taylor and Aaron Hitefield
  • ​​"Citizen Preferences for their Legislative Body", with Aaron Hitefield and Karlee Taylor 
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Political Behavior

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Public Opinion and Democracy

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Race, Gender, and Inequality

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