Publications

9. Holliday, Derek, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2025. “Why Depolarization is Hard: Evaluating Attempts to Decrease Partisan Animosity in America.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (39).
8. Tausanovitch, Chris and Derek Holliday. Forthcoming. “Income, Education, and Policy Priorities.” Political Science Research and Methods.
7. Holliday, Derek, Justin Grimmer, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2025. “Who are the Election Skeptics? Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections.” Election Law Journal 24 (1): 1-17.
6. Holliday, Derek, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “The July 2024 Trump Assassination Attempt was Followed by Lower In-Group Support for Partisan Violence and Increased Group Unity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (49).
5. Holliday, Derek, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “Affective Polarization is Uniformly Distributed Across American States.” PNAS Nexus 3 (10).
4. Holliday, Derek, Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (13).
3. Hamel, Brian and Derek Holliday. 2024 “Unequal Responsiveness in City Service Delivery: Evidence from 42 Million 311 Calls.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 19 (3): 243-274.
2. Guerin, Rebecca J., Arash Naeim, Ryan Baxter-King, Andrea H. Okun, Derek Holliday, and Lynn Vavreck. 2022. “Parental intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19: Findings from a U.S. National Survey.” Vaccine 41 (1): 101-108.
1. Naeim, Arash, Rebecca Guerin, Ryan Baxter-King, Andrea Okun, Neil Wenger, Karen Sepucha, Annette Stanton, Aaron Rudkin, Derek Holliday, Alexander Rossell Hayes, and Lynn Vavreck. 2022. “Strategies to increase the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19: Findings from a nationally representative survey of US adults, October 2020 to October 2021.” Vaccine 40 (52): 7571-7578.

Under Review

  1. D.C. On My Mind: National Considerations in State and Local Political Decisions (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Politics, with Aaron Rudkin)

    • APSA State Politics and Policy Section Best Paper Award (2022)
    • UCLA Swarr Prize for Best Unpublished Paper
    • Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grant

  2. Anti-Democratic Condemnation has Limited and Inconsistent Effects on Vote Choice and Democratic Attitudes (with Erin Walk, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood)

  3. A Republic, If You Like It: Policy Preferences Condition Perceptions of Democracy (with Sean J. Westwood)

  4. Skepticism and Common Ground in Political Reform: Navigating Public, Elite, and Partisan Divides (Revise and Resubmit at Nature Communications, with Gavin Ploger, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood)

  5. Shared Standards, Divided Verdicts: How Party Identity Shapes Perceptions of Domestic Terrorism (with Sean J. Westwood)

Projects in Progress

  1. Is All Politics Presidential? Decomposing partisan patterns in U.S. election outcomes across offices, 1972-2020

  2. Amateurs: A (Mostly) Stable, Undesired, but Benign Presence in American Politics

  3. Nationalized Elections, Localized Campaigns? A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Measuring Nationalized Political Rhetoric

  4. Endorsement Effects for COVID-19 Policy Support (with Ryan Baxter-King)

  5. All Party in the USA? Partisan Forces in Local and Nonpartisan Contests

Other Writing

  1. Holliday, Derek, Tyler Reny, Alex Rossell Hayes, Aaron Rudkin, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck. 2021. “Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Methodology and Representativeness Assessment.”