Assistant Professor
Temple University
453 Gladfelter Hall
1115 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu
215.204.6950
Working Papers
When Issues are Ripe for the Taking: Policy Performance, Issue Ownership, and Issue Trespassing
Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments
The Messenger or the Message? Group Endorsements, Heuristics, and Grassroots Campaigning, with Robin Kolodny.
Channel Surfing: Does Choice Reduce Videomalaise? with Martin Johnson.
Even If You Have Nothing Nice to Say, Go Ahead and Say It: Two Field Experiments Testing Negative Campaign Tactics, with David Nickerson.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Who is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of Eleven Randomized Field Experiments, with David Nickerson, American Journal of Political Science (2009, forthcoming).
"Can Partisan Cues Diminish Democratic Accountability?" Political Behavior (2008), 30 (2): 139-160.
“Uncovering the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising,” with Gregory A. Huber, American Journal of Political Science (2007), 51 (4): 957-77.
“I'm Asking for Your Support: The Effects of Personally Delievered Campaign Messages on Voting Decisions and Opinion Formation,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2007), 2(1): 43-65.
“What to Do (and Not Do) with Multicollinearity in State Politics Research,” with Gregory A. Huber, State Politics and Policy Quarterly (2007), 7 (1): 81-101.
“The Federal Face of Voting: Are Elected Officials Held Accountable for the Functions Relevant to Their Office?” Political Psychology (2006), 27 (5): 731-54.
“Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods using a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization,” with Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green, Political Analysis (Winter 2006), 14 (1): 37-62.
“Who is Held Responsible When Disaster Strikes? The Attribution of Responsibility for a Natural Disaster in an Urban Election, ” with Robert M. Stein, Journal of Urban Affairs (March 2006), 28 (1): 43-53.
“Do Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis.” British Journal of Political Science (January 2006), 36 (1): 159-73.
“Using Cluster Randomized Field Experiments to Study Voting Behavior,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (September 2005), 601: 169-79.
“Does Federalism Weaken Democratic Representation?” Publius: The Journal of Federalism (Spring 2005), 35 (2): 297-312.