Published Research
Peterson, Erik, Joshua P. Darr, Maxwell Allamong and Michael Henderson. Conditionally Accepted. "Can Americans' Trust in Local News Be Trusted? The Emergence, Sources and Implications of the Local News Trust Advantage." American Journal of Political Science.
Peterson, Erik and Jongwoo Jeong. Forthcoming. "Making Issues Matter: Local Media and Policy-Based Evaluations of Politicians." Political Behavior. Replication Materials
Archer, Allison M.N. and Erik Peterson. Forthcoming. "The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News." PS: Political Science and Politics. Replication Materials
McCrain, Joshua and Erik Peterson. Forthcoming. "Local Elections Do Not Increase Local News Demand." Political Science Research and Methods. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik and Johanna Dunaway. 2023. "The New News Barons: Investment Ownership Reduces Newspaper Reporting Capacity." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 707(1): 74-89.
Peterson, Erik and Manuela Muñoz. 2022. "`Stick to Sports': Evidence from Sports Media on the Origins and Consequences of Newly Politicized Attitudes." Political Communication. 39(4): 454-474. Replication Materials Pre-Print Version
Peterson, Erik and Maxwell Allamong. 2022. "The Influence of Unknown Media on Public Opinion: Evidence from Local and Foreign News Sources." American Political Science Review. 116(2): 719-733. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik and Shanto Iyengar. 2022. "Partisan reasoning in a high stakes environment: Assessing partisan informational gaps on COVID-19." Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. 3(2): 1-20. Replication Materials
Westwood, Sean and Erik Peterson. 2022. "The Inseparability of Race and Partisanship in the United States." Political Behavior. 44(3): 1125-1147. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik and Ali Kagalwala. 2021. "When Unfamiliarity Breeds Contempt: How Partisan Selective Exposure Sustains Oppositional Media Hostility." American Political Science Review. 115(2): 585-598. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik. 2021. "Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage." American Journal of Political Science. 65(2): 443-459 Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik and Shanto Iyengar. 2021. "Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information-Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?" American Journal of Political Science. 65(1): 133-147. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik. 2021. "Not Dead Yet: Political Learning from Newspapers in a Changing Media Landscape." Political Behavior. 43(1): 339-361. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik, Sharad Goel and Shanto Iyengar. 2021. "Partisan Selective Exposure in Online News Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Presidential Campaign." Political Science Research and Methods. 9(2): 242-258. Replication Materials
Mummolo, Jonathan, Erik Peterson and Sean Westwood. 2021. "The Limits of Partisan Loyalty." Political Behavior. 43(3): 949-972 Replication Materials
Westwood, Sean, Erik Peterson and Yphtach Lelkes. 2019. "Are There Still Limits on Partisan Prejudice?" Public Opinion Quarterly. 83(3): 584-597.
Mummolo, Jonathan and Erik Peterson. 2019. "Demand Effects in Survey Experiments: An Empirical Assessment." American Political Science Review. 113(2): 517-529. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik. 2019. "The Scope of Partisan Influence on Policy Opinion." Political Psychology. 40(2), 335-352.
Peterson, Erik and Gabor Simonovits. 2018. "The Electoral Consequences of Issue Frames." Journal of Politics. 80(4), 1283-1296. Replication Materials
Mummolo, Jonathan and Erik Peterson. 2018. "Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results." Political Science Research and Methods. 6(4): 829-835. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik. 2017. "The Role of the Information Environment in Partisan Voting." Journal of Politics 79(4), 1191-1204. Replication Materials
Peterson, Erik and Gabor Simonovits. 2017. "Costly Values: The Limited Benefits and Potential Costs of Targeted Policy Justifications." Journal of Experimental Political Science 4(2), 95-106.
Mummolo, Jonathan and Erik Peterson. 2017. "How Content Preferences Limit the Reach of Voting Aids." American Politics Research 45(2), 159-185.
Peterson, Erik. 2016. "The Rich Are Different: The Effect of Wealth on Partisanship." Political Behavior 38(1), 33-54. Pre-Publication Version Replication Materials
Druckman, James N., Erik Peterson and Rune Slothuus. 2013. "How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation." American Political Science Review 107(1), 57-79.
Working Papers
Peterson, Erik, Allison M.N. Archer, Kishan Bhakta and Sho Izumisawa. "Indirect Influence: How Elite Attacks on Information Providers Affect Public Opinion Formation."
Peterson, Erik, Shannon McGregor and Ryan Block. "Election Denial as a News Coverage Dilemma: A Survey Experiment with Local Journalists."