Publications*

Crowder-Meyer, Melody, Shana Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine. 2024 (2023 online first). “Ranking Candidates of Color in Local Elections: Neither Panacea nor Catastrophe for Candidates of Color” Journal of Experimental Political Science 11:2, pgs. 117-134

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2022. "Progress and Failure in Achieving Equal Representation: Understanding Women's Officeholding by Party in the US" pgs. 82-100 in Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings, and Reforms, Cambridge University Press, edited by Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld, and Armin Schäfer. (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2022 (2021 online first). "How Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Their Intersections Shape Americans’ Issue Priorities" Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 43:2, pgs. 169-183 (ungated version)

Szewczyk, James and Melody Crowder-Meyer. 2022 (2020 online first). “Community Income Inequality and the Economic Gap in Participation” Political Behavior 44, pgs. 479-504 (alternate link) (ungated version)
Related Political Behavior blog post here.

Crowder-Meyer, Melody and Mónica Ferrín. 2021. “The Effects of Ideological and Ethnoracial Identity on Political (Mis)Information” Public Opinion Quarterly 85:3, pgs. 753-779

Broockman, David, Nick Carnes, Melody Crowder-Meyer, and Chris Skovron. 2021 (2019 online first). “Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists” British Journal of Political Science 51:2, pgs. 724-749

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2021 (2019 online first). “Blogging Your Way to a Research Paper: The Benefits of a Semester-Long Blogging Assignment in the Political Science Classroom” Journal of Political Science Education 17:3, pgs. 482-492

Cooperman, Rosalyn and Melody Crowder-Meyer. 2020. “Standing on Their Shoulders: Suffragists, Women’s PACs, and Demands for Women’s Representation” PS: Political Science & Politics 53:3, pgs. 470-473 (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody, Shana Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine. 2020 (2019 online first). “Voting Can Be Hard, Information Helps” Urban Affairs Review 56:1, pgs. 124-153 (ungated version)
Related Urban Affairs Forum post here.

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2020 (2018 online first). “Baker, Bus Driver, Babysitter, Candidate? Revealing the Gendered Development of Political Ambition Among Ordinary Americans” Political Behavior 42, pgs. 359–384 (alternate link) (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Jessica Trounstine, and Kau Vue. 2020 (2018 online first). “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate Race, Cognitive Complexity, and Voter Choice” Political Behavior 42, pgs. 509-530 (alternate link)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody and Rosalyn Cooperman. 2018. “Can’t Buy Them Love: How Party Culture among Donors Contributes to the Party Gap in Women’s Representation” Journal of Politics 80:4, pgs. 1211-1224 (ungated version)
Related Vox Mischiefs of Faction post: It’s a big year for women candidates — why are so few of them Republican?

Cooperman, Rosalyn and Melody Crowder-Meyer. 2018. “A Run for Their Money: Republican women’s hard road to campaign funding” in The Right Women: Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators, edited by Malliga Och and Shauna Shames. Santa Barbara: Praeger.

Crowder-Meyer, Melody and Adrienne R. Smith. 2015. "How the Strategic Context Affects Women’s Emergence and Success in Local Legislative Elections." Politics, Groups, and Identities 3:2, pgs. 295-317 (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody, Shana Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine. 2015."Electoral Institutions, Gender Stereotypes, and Women's Local Representation." Politics, Groups, and Identities 3:2, pgs. 318-334 (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody and Benjamin E. Lauderdale. 2014. "A Partisan Gap in the Supply of Female Potential Candidates in the United States." Research & Politics, 1:1 (April 2014)
Related Washington Post Monkey Cage post: "Why the Republican Party doesn't have more female candidates."

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2013. "Gendered Recruitment without Trying: How Local Party Recruiters Affect Women's Representation." Politics & Gender, 9:4 (December) pgs. 390-413 (ungated version)

Crowder-Meyer, Melody. 2011. "The Party's Still Going: County Party Strength, Activity, and Influence." Ch. 7, pgs. 115-134, in The State of the Parties, 6th edition, edited by John Green and Daniel Coffey

* Note: If you can't access any of these papers, just email me for a copy!

Work in Progress

“People-centered or elite-centered democrats? Legislators’ process preferences in the United States and Germany” (with Leonard Häfner, Claudia Landwehr, Lea Stallbaum)

“Rhetorical and Revealed Opposition to Compromise among Local and State Legislators”

“Racial Polarization in Local Elections” (with Shana Kushner Gadarian and Jessica Trounstine)

“Where do Local Women Run?: Institutional, Political, and Party Determinants of Women's Representation in Local Office in the U.S.”

“Pipelines to Equal Representation? Gender, Candidacy, and Campaigns for Local and State Office”