Kevin Banda

Senior researcher at @statesunited. Political scientist. Quantitative researcher. Survey scientist. Spiritual weapon is pizza. Opinions are my own.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

New open access paper at @polcommjournal with Joel Sievert: we find that messages oriented towards national politics polarize people's views and evaluations of candidates and that messages stressing local matters sometimes do the opposite.

https://t.co/n52OFhWI5K

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[Josh Kalla @j_kalla]

Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" https://t.co/v46ZTjrgRW

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

@lordsutch @nataliemj10 @gelliottmorris SSRS was still (mostly) using SPSS as of a couple of years ago.

[Ellie Powell @EllieNeffPowell]

Thrilled to finally see this one in print in the latest issue of AJPS! Some projects are long and complicated, especially ones like this when the data collection involves filing hundreds of FOIA requests. https://t.co/LucpqxX9RJ

[Joseph Coll @jacoll_polisci]

Texas Tech is hiring in Judicial Politics! The link to the job ad is below. I am on the committee and happy to chat more about the position.

https://t.co/f6TLEhB1q2

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

I'm looking forward to learning about what people are working on at #APSA2026. I'm headed to Boston on Wednesday and will be there through Friday. As always, I'm happy to meet with anyone who wants to chat about working outside (or inside) higher ed, research, or anything else.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

@huzzahmpls That's right

[Hayley Cohen @HayleyCohen]

🚨 New paper alert with @markovitis in AJPS!

1/ Will voters participate in the primary of a party they oppose to prevent the nomination of a candidate they fear?
We study crossover voting using surveys and a large field experiment (N=83,902) in the 2024 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.

https://t.co/k9kK9r2Zgv

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

Revel in my failures, both academic and now for the first time nonacademic, by viewing my newly updated shadow CV:

https://t.co/cMPTYfJ54z

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

@JohnHolbein1 No finding is surprising once you've read the paper!

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

One could certainly interpret this as being a side effect of election denial messaging. See also my work with Moriah Harman on confidence in elections being lower among Republicans in states Trump claimed were stolen in 2020 vs other states.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

I'll be at #SPSA this week. Let me know if you want to meet to chat about research, States United, working in the political nonprofit/tech/higher ed space, or anything else.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

Confidence that other people's votes will be counted properly doesn't affect turnout, suggesting that this process is driven by concerns about one's own vote rather than those of others.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

This is some goofy shit, what the fuck

[eleanor @eleanordotcomm]

genuinely still impressed by the ludonarrative of Papers Please and how astutely it makes its point about participating in bureaucratic violence. "i play defensively, doing nothing illegal unless i have to, but i keep getting bad endings. how am i supposed to play?"

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

Not sure if it's good or bad, but the rate of desk rejections sure seems to be getting high.

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

@huzzahmpls Oof, hadn't heard of this one

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

Donald the dove is back, baby