Recent Research Publications

2026

Reyes, L., Conrad, J., & Loyle, C. (2026). Depoliticizing rebels: Government use of civilian trials during armed conflict. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 43(3), 245–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942251342975

2025

Crosson, J., & Kaslovsky, J. (2025). Do local roots impact Washington behaviors? District connections and representation in the U.S. Congress. American Political Science Review, 119(2), 887–904. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542400056X

Hornberger, M., Bewersdorff, A., Schiff, D. S., & Nerdel, C. (2025). A multinational assessment of AI literacy among university students in Germany, the UK, and the US. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100132

Romualdi, T., Girard, T., Turgeon, M., Dufresne, Y., Iida, T., & Matsubayashi, T. (2025). The multidimensional structure of risk: How dread and controllability shape attitudes toward artificial intelligence. Journal of Risk Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2025.2491089

Schiff, D. S. (2024). Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: Evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse. Policy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae007

Schiff, D. S., Lee, J., Borenstein, J., & Zegura, E. (2025). Influences and inhibitors in STEM undergraduate social responsibility development. International Journal of STEM Education, 12, Article 34.

Schiff, D. S., Wilhelm, A., Schiff, K. J., & Girard, T. (2025). The influence of ethics commitments and audits on public trust in AI. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7CP6Z

Schiff, J. K., Schiff, D. S., & Bueno, N. S. (2025). The liar’s dividend: Can politicians claim misinformation to evade accountability? American Political Science Review, 119(1), 71–90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001454

Wiese, L. J., Patil, I., Schiff, D. S., & Magana, A. J. (2025). AI ethics education: A systematic literature review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 8, Article 100405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100405

Wiese, L. J., & Schiff, D. S. (2025). Discourse before doctrine: The category error at the heart of AI ethics education. In W. Holmes (Ed.), Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence and education. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2024

Adams, I. T., McCrain, J., Schiff, D. S., Schiff, K. J., & Mourtgos, S. M. (2024). Police reform from the top down: Experimental evidence on police executive support for civilian oversight. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22620

Arnold, Z., Schiff, D. S., Schiff, K. J., Love, B., Melot, J., Singh, N., Jenkins, L., Lin, A., Pilz, K., Enwereazu, O., & Girard, T. (2024). Introducing the AI Governance and Regulatory Archive (AGORA): An analytic infrastructure for navigating the emerging AI governance landscape. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 39–48). https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v7i1.31615

Barkhuff, G., Borenstein, J., Schiff, D. S., Uchidiuno, J., & Zegura, E. (2024). Considerations for improving comprehensive undergraduate computing ethics education. In Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Vol. 2) (pp. 1560–1561). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635557

Walker, C. P., Schiff, D. S., & Schiff, K. J. (2024). Merging AI incidents research with political misinformation research: Introducing the Political Deepfakes Incidents Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i21.30349

2023

Baker, A., & Cupery, D. (2023). Animosity, amnesia, or admiration? Mass opinion around the world toward the former colonizer. British Journal of Political Science, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000710

Baker, A. (2023). The microfoundations of Latin America's social policy coalitions: The insider/outsider labor divide and attitudes toward different welfare programs in Mexico. World Politics, 75(1), 99–144. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2023.0001

Carrington, N. T., & Strother, L. (2023). Plugging the pipe? Evaluating the (null) effects of leaks on Supreme Court legitimacy. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 20(3), 669–712.

Gadarian, S. K., & Strother, L. (2023). Institutional hybridity and policy-motivated reasoning structure public evaluations of the Supreme Court. PLOS ONE, 18(11), Article e0294525.

O'Shaughnessy, M. R., Schiff, D. S., Varshney, L. R., Rozell, C. J., & Davenport, M. A. (2023). What governs attitudes toward artificial intelligence adoption and governance? Science and Public Policy, 50(2), 161–176. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac056

Schiff, D. S. (2023). Looking through a policy window with tinted glasses: Setting the agenda for U.S. AI policy. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12535

Schiff, D. S., & Schiff, K. J. (2023). Narratives and expert information in agenda-setting: Experimental evidence on state legislator engagement with artificial intelligence policy. Policy Studies Journal, 51(4), 817–842. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12511

Zhao, B., Cheng, S., Schiff, K. J., & Kim, Y. (2023). Digital transparency and citizen participation: Evidence from the online crowdsourcing platform of the City of Sacramento. Government Information Quarterly, 40(4), Article 101868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2023.101868

2022

Conrad, J., Reyes, L., & Stewart, M. (2022). Revisiting opportunism in civil conflict: Natural resource extraction and health care provision. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 66(1), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027211025597

Dichio, M., Strother, L., & Williams, R. (2022). To render prompt justice: The origin and construction of the United States Court of Claims. Studies in American Political Development, 36(2), 120–137.

Kreth, Q., Schiff, D. S., Lee, J., Borenstein, J., & Zegura, E. (2022, August). Social responsibility attitudes among undergraduate computer science students: An empirical analysis [Conference presentation]. 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, United States. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--41369

Schiff, D. S. (2022). Education for AI, not AI for education: The role of education and ethics in national AI policy strategies. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 32, 527–563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00270-2

Schiff, D. S., Laas, K., Biddle, J. B., & Borenstein, J. (2022). Global AI ethics documents: What they reveal about motivations, practices, and policies. In K. Laas, M. Davis, & E. Hildt (Eds.), Codes of ethics and ethical guidelines (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, Vol. 23). Springer.

Strickland, J., & Crosson, J. (2022). K Street on Main: How legislative institutionalization cultivates a professional lobbying elite. Political Science Research and Methods.