Dr. Blum’s research focuses on party factions and their impact on contemporary US politics. Here’s a list of her recent publications and projects.
Book
- How the Tea Party Captured the GOP (University of Chicago Press), 2020.
Articles
- “How Local Factions Pressure Parties: Activist Groups and Primary Contests in the Tea Party Era,” at the British Journal of Political Science (with Mike Cowburn), 2023.
- “Conditional Congressional communication: how elite speech varies across medium,” at Political Science Research Methods (with Lindsey Cormack and Kelsey Shoub), 2023.
- “Trump-ing Foreign Affairs: Status Threat and Foreign Policy Preferences on the Right”, at Perspectives on Politics (with Christopher Parker), 2019.
- “Student-run exit polls 101,” at PS: Political Science and Politics (with Sarah E. Croco, Elizabeth Suhay, Lilliana Mason, Hans Noel, Jonathan Ladd, and Michael A. Bailey), 2019.
Ongoing projects
- “Parties in Miniature: Where Factions Fit in U.S. Party Coalitions” in Placing Parties in American Political Development, eds. Adam Hilton and Jessica Hejny (R&R at the University of Pennsylvania Press as of November 2022).
- Research on the MAGA movement with Christopher S. Parker, including: “Will the Real Republicans Please Stand Up?: Election Denial and the Rift on the American Right,” under review at Public Opinion Quarterly with Christopher S. Parker, submitted March 2023.
- “Who Decides?: Media, MAGA, Money, and Mentions in the 2022 Republican Primaries,” under review at Perspectives on Politics with Mike Cowburn and Seth Masket.
- “Measuring Partisanship in Congressional Speech,” which uses machine learning techniques to generate member-level ideology estimates using five corpora of public speech (with Kelsey Shoub, Jon Green, and Lindsey Cormack);
- “Factions in Party Nomination Networks,” a network-based analysis of presidential endorsement patterns (with Hans Noel)
- “Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19,” a comprehensive research project examining the political roots of inequities in the U.S. domestic COVID-19 response (Russell Sage Grant with William Bianco and Josh McCrain).
- Several projects using data from the 2022 CES with Nathan Barron, Peter McLaughlin, Bennie Ashton, Chuck Finnochario, and Michael Crespin, including: “The Trump Effect: Experimental Evidence on Public Perceptions of Trump Endorses.”