Mayya Komisarchik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mayya Komisarchik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mayya |
| FAMILY NAME | Komisarchik |
| SIGNATURE | KOMISARCHIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8129-1046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Correcting measurement error bias in conjoint survey experiments
Conjoint survey designs are spreading across the social sciences due to their unusual capacity to estimate many causal effects from a single randomized experiment. Unfortunately, by their ability to mirror complicated real‐world choices, these designs often generate substantial measurement error and thus bias. We replicate both the data collection and analysis from eight prominent conjoint studies, all of which closely reproduce published results…
What electability means to voters and how it affects their decisions
Voters must often resolve dilemmas between choosing their favorite candidate and the one likeliest to win an election. Researchers know surprisingly little about how voters even conceptualize electability, let alone make these decisions. We use two novel survey experiments to evaluate how voters trade off policy agreement and electability in their decisions. The first experiment presents respondents with policy agreement between themselves and ca…
Amplifying the message? The effect of endorsements in primary elections
Political diversity in U.S. police agencies
Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters from 99 of the 100 largest local U.S. agencies—over one third of local law enforcement agents nationwide—with voter files to study police partisanship. Police skew more Republican than their jurisdictions, with notable exceptions. Using fine‐grained data in Chicago and Houston, we compare behavior of Democratic and Republican officers facing common circu…
Throwing Away the Umbrella
The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder dramatically changed the Voting Rights Act, ending the “preclearance” process that had required federal approval before places with a history of discrimination changed their voting procedures. Dissenting justices and voting-rights advocates feared the decision could allow changes to election administration that would suppress minority voter participation. This paper evaluates the decisi…
Democrats Versus Democracy
How do dominant groups respond to electoral interventions designed to help minority groups? This article posits that when democratizing interventions empowering subordinate groups are imposed upon dominant groups, dominant groups alter institutions to protect their power. I provide evidence of this in the context of the Voting Rights Act, which enfranchised millions of Black people in the South despite opposition from white elites. Using differen…
Understanding Public Opinion Toward the #StopAsianHate Movement and the Relation With Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in the US
StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate are two of the most commonly used hashtags that represent the current movement to end hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. We conduct a social media study of public opinion toward the #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate movement based on 46 058 Twitter users across 30 states in USA ranging from March 18, 2021 to April 11, 2021. To facilitate fine-grained analyses, the demographic in…
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well studied in the comparative context, but less is known about the effects of explicitly racist state activity in liberal democracies such as the United States. We investigate this question by looking at an important event in American history—the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. We fin…
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It
To deter gerrymandering, many state constitutions require legislative districts to be “compact.” Yet, the law offers few precise definitions other than “you know it when you see it,” which effectively implies a common understanding of the concept. In contrast, academics have shown that compactness has multiple dimensions and have generated many conflicting measures. We hypothesize that both are correct—that compactness is complex and multidimensi…
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It
To deter gerrymandering, many state constitutions require legislative districts to be “compact.” Yet, the law offers few precise definitions other than “you know it when you see it,” which effectively implies a common understanding of the concept. In contrast, academics have shown that compactness has multiple dimensions and have generated many conflicting measures. We hypothesize that both are correct—that compactness is complex and multidimensi…
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well studied in the comparative context, but less is known about the effects of explicitly racist state activity in liberal democracies such as the United States. We investigate this question by looking at an important event in American history—the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. We fin…
Throwing Away the Umbrella
The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder dramatically changed the Voting Rights Act, ending the “preclearance” process that had required federal approval before places with a history of discrimination changed their voting procedures. Dissenting justices and voting-rights advocates feared the decision could allow changes to election administration that would suppress minority voter participation. This paper evaluates the decisi…
How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It
To deter gerrymandering, many state constitutions require legislative districts to be “compact.” Yet, the law offers few precise definitions other than “you know it when you see it,” which effectively implies a common understanding of the concept. In contrast, academics have shown that compactness has multiple dimensions and have generated many conflicting measures. We hypothesize that both are correct—that compactness is complex and multidimensi…
The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well studied in the comparative context, but less is known about the effects of explicitly racist state activity in liberal democracies such as the United States. We investigate this question by looking at an important event in American history—the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. We fin…
Understanding Public Opinion Toward the #StopAsianHate Movement and the Relation With Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in the US
StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate are two of the most commonly used hashtags that represent the current movement to end hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. We conduct a social media study of public opinion toward the #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate movement based on 46 058 Twitter users across 30 states in USA ranging from March 18, 2021 to April 11, 2021. To facilitate fine-grained analyses, the demographic in…
Democrats Versus Democracy
How do dominant groups respond to electoral interventions designed to help minority groups? This article posits that when democratizing interventions empowering subordinate groups are imposed upon dominant groups, dominant groups alter institutions to protect their power. I provide evidence of this in the context of the Voting Rights Act, which enfranchised millions of Black people in the South despite opposition from white elites. Using differen…
Political diversity in U.S. police agencies
Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters from 99 of the 100 largest local U.S. agencies—over one third of local law enforcement agents nationwide—with voter files to study police partisanship. Police skew more Republican than their jurisdictions, with notable exceptions. Using fine‐grained data in Chicago and Houston, we compare behavior of Democratic and Republican officers facing common circu…
Throwing Away the Umbrella
The Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder dramatically changed the Voting Rights Act, ending the “preclearance” process that had required federal approval before places with a history of discrimination changed their voting procedures. Dissenting justices and voting-rights advocates feared the decision could allow changes to election administration that would suppress minority voter participation. This paper evaluates the decisi…
Correcting measurement error bias in conjoint survey experiments
Conjoint survey designs are spreading across the social sciences due to their unusual capacity to estimate many causal effects from a single randomized experiment. Unfortunately, by their ability to mirror complicated real‐world choices, these designs often generate substantial measurement error and thus bias. We replicate both the data collection and analysis from eight prominent conjoint studies, all of which closely reproduce published results…
What electability means to voters and how it affects their decisions
Voters must often resolve dilemmas between choosing their favorite candidate and the one likeliest to win an election. Researchers know surprisingly little about how voters even conceptualize electability, let alone make these decisions. We use two novel survey experiments to evaluate how voters trade off policy agreement and electability in their decisions. The first experiment presents respondents with policy agreement between themselves and ca…
Amplifying the message? The effect of endorsements in primary elections
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (2 works)