This project introduces a new survey instrument to investigate the relation between the power to hurt (i.e. enemy casualties) and to be hurt (i.e. friendly casualties) and their combined impact on the willingness to support the use of military force.
This project finds that individuals have an intuitive sense of the power to hurt and explores three plausible mechanisms that could account for this dynamic.
This paper researches how democratic backsliding impact the ability of credibility of leaders abroad by distinguishing between the effects of domestic polarization and of weakening democratic institutions.
A counterintuitive finding in IR is that important changes in policy are initiated by unlikely leaders. This project emphasizes that public preferences are central to explain this dynamic.
This projects examines the impact of established survey instruments on the cognitive burden of participants and proposes a new instrument design to improve survey response quality.
Using a survey experiment concurrently fielded in Korea, Japan, and the U.S., this project investigates what states are looking for in an ally.
Unlike what is commonly thought, this paper demonstrates that audience costs exist because individuals have substantive preferences over policy.