Research

Books

Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects 

(University of Michigan Press 2019)

Joshua J. Dyck & Edward L. Lascher, Jr.

 CQ’s Guide to  State Politics and Policy 

(Sage/CQ 2013)

Edited by Richard Niemi & Joshua J. Dyck

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Professor Dyck’s complete list of published peer-reviewed journal articles are listed below and all can be accessed via Google Scholar. If you do not have an institutional subscription to one of these journals and would like a copy, send an e-mail to joshua_dyck@uml.edu to request a copy. I am happy to provide one for you. 

Dyck, Joshua J., Hussey, Wesley, and Lascher, Edward L., Jr. 2019. “American State Ballot Initiatives and Income Inequality.” Politics and Governance 7(2):380-409. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i2.1873.         

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna. 2019. “Ballot Initiatives and Status Quo Bias.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 19(2):180-207. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1532440018815067

 Dyck, Joshua J., Cluverius, John, and Gerson, Jeffrey. 2019. “Sports, Science, and Partisanship in the United States: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Polarisation of an Apolitical Issue.” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 11(1):133-152https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2018.1524784.   

 Dyck, Joshua J., Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna, and Coates, Michael. 2018. “Primary Distrust: Political Distrust and Support for the Insurgent Candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Primary.” PS: Political Science and Politics 51(2):351-357. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517002505.   

 Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna and Dyck, Joshua J. 2017. “Crime and Partisanship: How Party ID Muddles Reality, Perception and Policy Attitudes on Crime and Guns.” Social Science Quarterly 98(2): 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12417.

 Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna, Filindra, Alexandra, and. Dyck, Joshua J. 2016. “When Partisans and Minorities Interact: Interpersonal Contact, Partisanship and Public Opinion Preferences on Immigration Policy.” Social Science Quarterly 97(2):311-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12175.   

 Seabrook, Nicholas R., Dyck, Joshua J. and Lascher, Edward L., Jr. 2015. “Do Ballot Initiatives Increase General Political Knowledge?” Political Behavior 37(2):279-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-014-9273-5.   

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna. 2014. “To Know You is Not Necessarily to Love You: The Partisan Mediators of Intergroup Contact.” Political Behavior 36(3):553-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-013-9240-6.   

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Pearson-Merkowitz, Shanna. 2012. “The Conspiracy of Silence: Context and Voting on Gay Marriage Ballot Measures.” Political Research Quarterly 65(4):745-757. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912911411102.  

 Dyck, Joshua J. 2012. “Racial Threat, Direct Legislation, and Social Trust: Taking Tyranny Seriously in Studies of the Ballot Initiative.” Political Research Quarterly 65(3):617-630. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912911404562.  

 Dyck, Joshua J., Johnson, Gregg B. and Wasson, Jesse T. 2012. “A Blue Tide in the Golden State: Ballot Propositions, Population Change and Party Identification in California.” American Politics Research 40(3):450-475. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1532673X11427948

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Hagley, Annika. 2012. “Political Geography, Direct Democracy, and the Reasoning Voter: Spatial Proximity, Symbolic Politics, and Voting on California’s Proposition 83.” Politics and Policy 40(2):195-220. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00346.x

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Baldassare, Mark. 2012. “The Limits of Citizen Support for Direct Democracy.” California Journal of Politics and Policy 4(1):1-20. https://doi.org/10.5070/P23S31.   

 Dyck, Joshua J. 2010. “Political Distrust and Conservative Voting in Ballot Measure Elections.” Political Research Quarterly 63(3):612-626. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912909331427.   

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Seabrook, Nicholas R. 2010. “Mobilized by Direct Democracy: Short-term versus Long-term Effects and the Geography of Turnout in Ballot Measure Elections.” Social Science Quarterly 91(1):189-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00688.x.   

 Dyck, Joshua J., Gaines, Brian and Shaw, Daron R. 2009. “The Effect of Local Political Contexts on How Americans Vote.” American Politics Research 37(6):1088-1115. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1532673X09332932.     

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Baldassare, Mark. 2009. “Process Preferences and Voting in Direct Democratic Elections.” Public Opinion Quarterly 73(3):551-65. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfp027.   

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Lascher, Edward L., Jr.  2009. “Direct Democracy and Political Efficacy Reconsidered.”  Political Behavior 31(3):401-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-008-9081-x.    

 Dyck, Joshua J. 2009. “Initiated Distrust:  Direct Democracy and Trust in Government.” American Politics Research 37(4):539-68. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1532673X08330635.    

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Hussey, Laura. 2008. “The End of Welfare as We Know It?  Durable Attitudes in a Changing Information Environment.” Public Opinion Quarterly 72(4):589-618. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfn053.   

 Gimpel, James G., Dyck, Joshua J. and Shaw, Daron R. 2007. “Election Year Stimuli and the Timing of Voter Registration.”  Party Politics 13(3):347-370. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354068807075941

 Gimpel, James G., Dyck, Joshua J. and Shaw, Daron R.  2006. “Location, Knowledge, and Time Pressures in the Spatial Structure of Convenience Voting.”  Electoral Studies 25(1):35-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2005.02.002.     

 Cho, Wendy K. Tam, Gimpel, James G. and Dyck, Joshua J. 2006. “Residential Concentration, Political Socialization and Voter Turnout.” Journal of Politics 68(1):156-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00377.x.  

 Dyck, Joshua J. and Gimpel, James G. 2005. “Distance, Turnout, and the Convenience of Voting.” Social Science Quarterly 86(3):531-48. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0038-4941.2005.00316.x

 Gimpel, James G., Dyck, Joshua J. and Shaw, Daron R. 2004. “Registrants, Voters, and Turnout Variability Across Neighborhoods.” Political Behavior 26(4):343-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-004-0900-4.