Research

Working Papers

  • Obradovich, Nick, and Scott M. Guenther (2016). Collective responsibility amplifies mitigation behaviors. Climatic Change

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  • Guenther, Scott M., and David Searle. Limited Time, Limited Resources: Tradeoffs in Congressional Credit Claiming.
    • (Revise and Resubmit at Research and Politics)
  • Guenther, Scott M., and Samuel Kernell. Veto Rhetoric and Presidents’ Legislative Influence.
    • (under review)
  • Guenther, Scott M. Electoral Institutions Mediate Social Influence: Evidence from Australian Ballot Adoption in Vermont Town Meetings.
  • Guenther, Scott M. Legislative Pruning: Ideological Clarity, Heterogeneous Membership, and the Power of Majority Party Agenda Setting.
  • Guenther, Scott M. Ballot Reforms and Social Influence in Historical American Elections.
  • Guenther, Scott M. and Samuel Kernell. The 19th Century Party Ticket as an Extended Test of the Plurality-Mobilization Thesis.

Grants and Fellowships

  • Skoll Global Threats Fund – (with Sara Kersoky, Nick Obradovich) 2014 ($70,000) Rural and Latino Americans and Climate Change Opinion
  • Sanford Lakoff Fellowship – 2013, 2014 ($2,500) Social Influences in Vermont Town Meetings
  • Social Science Dean - Field Research Travel Reimbursement – 2014, 2015 ($1000) Archival Research in VT

Conference Presentations

American Political Science Association
  • Voting Alone: Political Decisions and Transparency in Vermont Town Meetings. (2015)
    • Midwest Political Science Association
    • Committee Chair Elections and the Growth of Majority Party Agenda Setting. (2016)
    • Veto Rhetoric and Presidents’ Legislative Influence. with Sam Kernell (2015). Winner of the 2015 MPSA Patrick Fett Award for Best Paper on Congress & the President.
    • Electoral Institutions Mediate Social Influence: Evidence from Australian Ballot Adoption in Vermont Town Meetings. (2015)
    • Friends With Benefits: Explaining the Successful Acquisition of Earmarks in Congress with David Searle (2014)
Western Political Science Association
  • A New Measure of the President’s Ideology. with Derek Bonett & Sam Kernell (2016)
  • Ballot Reforms and Social Influence in Historical American Elections. (2015)
  • Legislative Pruning: Ideological Clarity, Heterogeneous Membership, and the Power of Majority Party Agenda Setting. (2014)

Dissertation Committee

Co-Chair James Fowler, Co-Chair Sam Kernell, Thad Kousser, Seth Hill, and Julie Cullen (Economics)