Featured Books

Hijacking the Agenda
Economic Power and Political Influence. New York. Russell Sage Foundation. 2021. With Chris Witko, Nate Kelly, and Jana Morgan.
Winner of the 2022 Gladys M. Kammerer Award presented by the American Political Science Association to honor the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy.
Reviewed in PSQ, Perspectives on Politics, and New Political Science.
“To know who governs, we must know who controls the governing agenda. In this innovative book, four top political scientists show that the congressional agenda is disproportionately shaped by economic elites and the politicians most friendly to and funded by them. Combining sophisticated quantitative analysis and compelling case studies, Hijacking the Agenda sets a new standard for research on inequality and American democracy—and sounds a loud warning that all scholars and citizens should hear.”
—JACOB HACKER, Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Incarceration Nation
How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. New York. Cambridge University Press. 2016.

Who Gets Represented
Edited with Christopher Wlezien. New York. Russell Sage Foundation. 2011.
Table of Contents//Contributors//Chapter 1//Replication Data for Chapter 1
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Mass Incarceration and the Judicial System
Enns, Peter K., Youngmin Yi, Megan Comfort, Alyssa Goldman, Hedwig Lee, Christopher Muller, Sara Wakefield, Emily A. Wang, and Christopher Wildeman. 2019. “What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated? Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS).” Socius. Vol.5: 1-45. [Socius] [PDF]
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Enns, Peter K. and Mark D. Ramirez. 2018. “Privatizing Punishment: Testing theories of public support for private prison and immigration detention facilities.“ Criminology. 56(3): 546-573. [Criminology] [PDF]
Enns, Peter K. and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. 2018. “Making Sense of the Supreme Court-Public Opinion Relationship.” In Handbook of Judicial Behavior. eds. Robert M. Howard and Kirk Randazzo. Routledge Press. [Ch.] [Preprint]
Enns, Peter K. 2016. Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Enns, Peter K. and Patrick Wohlfarth. 2013. “The Swing Justice.” Journal of Politics. 75(4): 1089-1107. [PDF] [JOP]
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- Featured in The Monkey Cage, JOTWELL, and the Cornell Chronicle.
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Casillas, Christopher, Peter K. Enns, and Patrick Wohlfarth. 2011. “How Public Opinion Constrains the U.S. Supreme Court.” The American Journal of Political Science 55(1): 74-88. [PDF] [AJPS]
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- Featured in FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, the Cornell Chronicle, and the Shorenstein Center.
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Inequality and Representation
Enns, Peter K. 2022 “Reconsidering Representation: How the Same Data Can Produce Diverge about the Quality of Democratic Responsiveness in the United States.” in Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms. Eds. Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld, and Armin Schafer. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter] [pgs. 103-120] [pgs.121-128]
Schuldt, Jonathon P., Adam R. Pearson, Neil A. Lewis, Jr., Ashley Jardina, and Peter K. Enns. 2022. “Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science.” The ANNALS of the American Academic of Political and Social Science. 700(1): 195-207. [AAPSS] [PDF]
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- Featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
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Witko, Christopher, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns. 2021. Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Winner of the 2022 Gladys M. Kammerer Award presented by the American Political Science Association to honor the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy.
- Featured in The Hill, 3Streams, Cornell Chronicle, Penn State News, the Patriot News, and the New Books Network Podcast.
- Reviewed in PSQ and Perspectives on Politics.
Enns, Peter K. 2015. “Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation.” Perspectives on Politics. 13(4): 1053-1064. [PDF] [Perspectives]
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- Featured in Vox, Washington Monthly, and Bloomberg.
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- Featured in Vox, Washington Monthly, and Bloomberg.
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Enns, Peter K. 2015. “Reconsidering the Middle: A Reply to Martin Gilens.” Perspectives on Politics. 13(4): 1072-1074. [PDF] [Perspectives]
Enns, Peter K. and Christopher Wlezien (Eds). Who Gets Represented? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Kelly, Nathan J. and Peter K. Enns. 2010. “Inequality and the Dynamics of Public Opinion: The Self-Reinforcing Link Between Economic Inequality and Mass Preferences.” The American Journal of Political Science 54(4): 855-870. [PDF] [AJPS]
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- Featured in the Christian Science Monitor (cover story), The Monkey Cage here and here, The Huffington Post here and here, CQ Researcher, the Cornell Chronicle, the NYT, Vox, and The New Yorker.
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Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Alvarez, Eliana, Juan A. Bogliaccini, Peter K. Enns, Martin Opertti, and Rosario Queirolo. 2023. “Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Forthcoming.
Enns, Peter K., Rebekah Jones, Julianna Koch, and Julius Lagodny. 2023. “Introducing the U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset: Rejoinder to Berry, Fording, and Crofoot.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Enns, Peter K. and Julius Lagodny. 2023. “The U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset: Analyzing More than 1.1 Million Survey Respondents from 1948 to 2020” Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: https://doi.org/10.25940/ROPER-31120311. [PDF]
- U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset available here.
Enns, Peter K. and Jake Rothschild. 2022. “Do You Know Where Your Survey Data Come From” 3Streams. (May 2).
Enns, Peter K. and Ashley Jardina. 2021 “Complicating the Role of White Racial Attitudes and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the 2016 US Presidential Election” Public Opinion Quarterly. 85(2): 539-570. [POQ] [PDF]
- Featured in the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight here and here.
Enns, Peter K. and Julius Lagodny. 2021. “Forecasting the 2020 Electoral College Winner: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model” PS: Political Science & Politics. 54(1): 81-85. [PDF] [PS] [Online Appendix]
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- Featured in the Washington Post.
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Enns, Peter K., Julius Lagodny, and Jonathon P. Schuldt. 2017. “Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters.” Statistics, Politics and Policy. 8(1):41-63. [SPP] [PDF]
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- Featured in the Washington Post.
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Schuldt, Jonathon P., Peter K. Enns, and Victoria Cavaliere. 2017. “Does the label really matter? Evidence that the US public continues to doubt `global warming’ more than `climate change.'” Climatic Change. 143(1-2): 271-280. [CC] [PDF]
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- Featured in the Huffington Post, Reuters, and the Cornell Chronicle.
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Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. 2016. “Did Moderates Help Elect Trump?” New York Times. Nov. 16.
Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. 2016. “Are There Really Hidden Trump Voters?” New York Times. Nov. 7.
Enns, Peter K. and Julianna Koch. 2013. “Public Opinion in the U.S. States: 1956 to 2010.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 13(3): 349-372. [PDF] [SPPQ]
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- Winner of the Allan Saxe Award for the best paper on state and local politics presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association.
- Featured in The Monkey Cage.
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Enns, Peter K. and Brian Richman. 2013. “Presidential Campaigns and the Fundamentals Reconsidered.” Journal of Politics 75(3): 803-820. [PDF] [JOP]
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- Featured in The LSE American Politics and Policy, the Cornell Chronicle, the Cornell Daily Sun, and EZRA.
- Supplementary Information File // Replication Data // Codebook // California’s 2000 Voter Information Guide
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Enns, Peter K., Paul M. Kellstedt, and Gregory E. McAvoy. 2012. “The Consequences of Partisanship in Economic Perceptions.” Public Opinion Quarterly 76(2): 287-310. [PDF] [POQ]
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- Featured in The Monkey Cage, TIME Magazine, and BuzzFeed Politics.
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Enns, Peter K. and Gregory E. McAvoy. 2012. “The Role of Partisanship in Aggregate Opinion.” Political Behavior 34(4): 627-651. [PDF] [PB]
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- Featured in The New York Times.
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Book Reviews
Enns, Peter K. 2020. “Book Review of: Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race.” Perspectives on Politics 18(4): 1214–1216. [Perspectives] [PDF]
Unpublished Papers
- Enns, Peter K. and Christopher J. Anderson. “The American Voter Goes Shopping: Presidential Elections and the Micro-Foundations of Partisan Consumption.”
Enns, Peter K. “The Micro Foundations of Presidential Approval.”
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- Winner of the Best Paper Award, for the best paper on elections, public opinion, and voting behavior delieverd at the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting.
Enns, Peter K., Takaaki Masaki, and Nathan J. Kelly “Time Series Analysis and Spurious Regression: An Error Correction.”
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- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. 2014.