Research
I am currently writing my MA thesis on partisan-ideological sorting, partisan affect, and candidate affect, and split ticket voting.
During the Specialization phase of my research master program (fall 2025), I explored affective polarization, civic duty, and voter turnout (see Figure 1). Previous research has looked at affective polarization and voter turnout, and civic duty and voter turnout. My research used the 2020 ANES Time Series Study to look at both affective polarization and civic duty as two predictors of turnout.
I found that the influence of civic duty on turnout varies at different degrees of affective polarization. Figure 2 shows that affective polarization and a (strong) sense of civic duty were associated with greater probabilities of voting, but a strong sense of duty alone was also associated with a greater probability of voting, even when affective polarization was absent or minimal.
