Sean Freeder
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Freeder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeder |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5751-7778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Alphabet Soup
Ballot order has the power to shape electoral outcomes: even when randomly assigned, candidates listed first receive more votes. Meanwhile, candidates from historically marginalized groups—such as women and ethnic minorities—tend to fare worse in low-salience or low-information contexts. We examine whether being listed first—an increase in salience—benefits these candidates more or less than their white and male counterparts. Leveraging a natural…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of Covid
That voters punish the incumbent president in bad times, and reward them in good times, has become a stylized fact of elections. Despite COVID-19 representing an unprecedented catastrophe, Trump’s approval ratings, unlike other world leaders, remained stable throughout 2020. To explore this puzzle, we surveyed the same Americans twice before the 2020 election—a period when COVID cases spiked. Instead of finding that the crisis’s severity affected…
The More You Know
The Importance of Knowing “What Goes with What
What share of citizens hold meaningful views about public policy? Despite decades of scholarship, researchers have failed to reach a consensus. Researchers agree that policy opinions in surveys are unstable but disagree about whether that instability is real or just measurement error. In this article, we revisit this debate with a concept neglected in the literature: knowledge of which issue positions "go together" ideologically—or what Philip Co…
The Importance of Knowing “What Goes with What
What share of citizens hold meaningful views about public policy? Despite decades of scholarship, researchers have failed to reach a consensus. Researchers agree that policy opinions in surveys are unstable but disagree about whether that instability is real or just measurement error. In this article, we revisit this debate with a concept neglected in the literature: knowledge of which issue positions "go together" ideologically—or what Philip Co…
The More You Know
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of Covid
That voters punish the incumbent president in bad times, and reward them in good times, has become a stylized fact of elections. Despite COVID-19 representing an unprecedented catastrophe, Trump’s approval ratings, unlike other world leaders, remained stable throughout 2020. To explore this puzzle, we surveyed the same Americans twice before the 2020 election—a period when COVID cases spiked. Instead of finding that the crisis’s severity affected…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
The Importance of Knowing “What Goes with What
What share of citizens hold meaningful views about public policy? Despite decades of scholarship, researchers have failed to reach a consensus. Researchers agree that policy opinions in surveys are unstable but disagree about whether that instability is real or just measurement error. In this article, we revisit this debate with a concept neglected in the literature: knowledge of which issue positions "go together" ideologically—or what Philip Co…
The More You Know
Political Accountability and Selective Perception in the Time of Covid
That voters punish the incumbent president in bad times, and reward them in good times, has become a stylized fact of elections. Despite COVID-19 representing an unprecedented catastrophe, Trump’s approval ratings, unlike other world leaders, remained stable throughout 2020. To explore this puzzle, we surveyed the same Americans twice before the 2020 election—a period when COVID cases spiked. Instead of finding that the crisis’s severity affected…
Access or Experience? Determinants of Distrust in US Elections
Recent partisan claims about the illegitimacy of the 2020 election highlight a need to better understand the determinants underlying Americans' trust in the electoral process. In this study, we focus on African Americans and conservatives, two groups that stand out both historically and contemporaneously for high levels of distrust in elections. Utilizing nationally representative survey data, we analyze the degree to which election distrust is a…
Alphabet Soup
Ballot order has the power to shape electoral outcomes: even when randomly assigned, candidates listed first receive more votes. Meanwhile, candidates from historically marginalized groups—such as women and ethnic minorities—tend to fare worse in low-salience or low-information contexts. We examine whether being listed first—an increase in salience—benefits these candidates more or less than their white and male counterparts. Leveraging a natural…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Perception (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)