Research Projects

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 psychological dimension of democratic support which critically reexamines how people form democratic connections.
  • Topics related to democratic threat
  • Difference in topics across expressive and instrumental treatments
• Develop measurement items to evaluate psychological connections and use Bayesian measurement models to validate these items, construct scores of the latent psychological support variable, and visualize results across key demographics such as race, sex, and religious affiliation. 
• 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"

• 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
• "The Relationship Between Targeted Social Assistance and Political Participation"
• "Public Responses to Engineering Equality: Gender Quotas and Satisfaction with Democracy", with Alexandra Snipes
• "Representation in US State Legislatures and Satisfaction with Democracy", with Elise Blasingme​
  
• "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 

Political Behavior

Public Opinion and Democracy

Research Methodology