PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Islam, Md Mujahedul and Peter John Loewen. 2026. “Ethical Distance and Electoral Accountability: Voters Punish Politicians Whose Ethical Views Diverge from Societal Consensus.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 1-30.

  2. Treger, Clareta, Thomas Galipeau, Thomas Bergeron, Sarah Lachance, Natasha Goel, Md Mujahedul Islam, Blake Lee-Whiting, Beatrice Magistro, and Peter John Loewen. 2026. “Party or Policy? The Role of Policy Partisanship in Voter Decision-Making.” Political Behavior, 1-25.

  3. Michael J Donnelly, Md Mujahedul Islam and Justin Savoie. 2020. “The public face of interest group lobbying on immigration: Who responds to and who ignores what they say.” Journal of European Social Policy, 30(5): 543-556. 

  4. Allen Stevens, Benjamin, Md Mujahedul Islam, Roosmarijn de Geus, Jonah Goldberg, John R. McAndrews, Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki, Peter John Loewen, and Daniel Rubenson. 2019. “Local Candidate Effects in Canadian Elections.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 52(1): 83-96. 

 

Papers Under Review

  1. “Ideological Heterogeneity and Voter Turnout” (with Peter Loewen, Daniel Rubenson, Roosmarijn de Geus, and Benjamin Stevens). Revise & Resubmit.

  2. “Artificial Influence: Can AI Reduce Belief Certainty?” (with Natasha Goel, Thomas Bergeron, Blake Lee-Whiting, Clareta Treger, Thomas Galipeau, Danielle Bohonos, Sarah Lachance, and Eric Merkley). Revise & Resubmit

  3. “Does Democratic Representation Work Better in Smaller Populations?” (with Peter Loewen, Jonah Goldberg, and John R. McAndrews). 

 

Papers nearing submission

  1. “Ethical Distance and Democratic Attitudes in Advanced Democracies.”

  2. “Gender, Ideology, and Perceived Ethical Distance: Evidence from Canada and the United States.”

  3. “Moral and Deliberative Leadership in Electoral Choice.”

  4. “What Ethics Means to Citizens: Measuring Moral Grammar from Open-Ended Survey Data.”

  5. “Distance-Based Conjoint Experiments: Estimating Causal Effects from Empirical Benchmarks.”

 

Papers in progress

  1. “The Moral Authority of Representation: Experimental Evidence on How Moral Versus Policy Justifications Shape Democratic Accountability.”

  2. “Does Presenting Conjoint Attributes in a Fixed Versus a Randomized Order Affect the Relative Effect of Each Attribute?” 

  3. “Domain-Specific or Uniform? Civic Participation, Localized Trust, and Democratic Commitment”, with Muhib Rahman.”

  4. “Global Attitudes towards Online Hate Speech” (with Clareta Treger, Thomas Bergeron, Christopher Cochrane, Ron Levi, Effi Levi, Gal Ron, Shaul R. Shenhav, Tamir Sheafer, Odelia Oshri, and Peter J. Loewen).”

  5. “The Qualitative Turn in Quantitative Political Science: Collaborative Programming Architecture with Applications to the Fairness of Electoral District Boundaries and the Quality of Legislative Debate” (with Christopher Cochrane and Michael Cowan).”

 

BOOK PROJECTS

  1. How the Ethical Positions of Voters and Politicians Matter in a Democracy.

    2. Applied Statistics: Learning by Heart, Mind, and Soul (with Christopher Cochrane).