Research
Published Papers:
Alwin, Duane and Julianna Pacheco. 2010. "Levels and Correlates of Vocabulary Knowledge in the United States: Historical Trends and Contemporary Issues." In Peter V. Marsden (ed.) Social Trends in the United States, 1972-2006: Evidence from the General Social Survey. Forthcoming.
Pacheco, Julianna Sandell. 2008. "Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout." Political Behavior, 30 (4): 415-436.
Alwin, Duane and Julianna Pacheco. 2010. "Levels and Correlates of Vocabulary Knowledge in the United States: Historical Trends and Contemporary Issues." In Peter V. Marsden (ed.) Social Trends in the United States, 1972-2006: Evidence from the General Social Survey. Forthcoming.
Pacheco, Julianna Sandell. 2008. "Political Socialization in Context: The Effect of Political Competition on Youth Voter Turnout." Political Behavior, 30 (4): 415-436.
Pacheco, Julianna and Eric Plutzer. 2008. "Political Participation and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Economic and Social Hardship on Young Citizens." Journal of Social Issues, 64 (3): 571-593.
Berkman, Michael, Eric Plutzer, and Julianna Sandell Pacheco. 2008. "Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait." PLoS Biology, 6 (5): e124 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060124.
Pacheco, Julianna Sandell and Eric Plutzer. 2007. "Stay in School, Don't Get Pregnant: Teen Life Transitions and Cumulative Disadvantage for Voter Turnout." American Politics Research, Vol. 35 (1): 32-56.
Sandell, Julianna and Eric Plutzer. 2005. "Families, Divorce, and Voter Turnout." Political Behavior, 27 (2): 133-162.
Working Papers (please do not cite without permission):
Working Papers (please do not cite without permission):
"Two New Measures of Dynamic State Public Opinion using Item Response Models" Paper presented at the New Faces Conference II and completed as a QuaSSI fellow.
This paper introduces two new measures of state
public opinion over time that describes what state residents want from the
government in terms of spending across a variety of domestic and international
issues. Specifically, I use a dynamic item
response approach in which the number of residents who endorse additional
spending on various issues in a particular year is modeled as a function of
issue characteristics and a state-year latent variable trait. This approach is useful because it overcomes two
challenges faced by scholars measuring dynamic state public opinion from
national surveys, such as heterogeneous state sample sizes and missing
data. The result is two dynamic measures
of spending preferences at the state level.
One, which I term operational ideology, captures spending preferences on
both domestic and international issues and is highly related to Stimson's
national measure of policy mood (Stimson 1991) and Berry et al.'s (1998)
indirect measure of state ideology. The
measure is less related to symbolic measures of ideology, such as Erikson,
Wright, and McIver's (1993) measure of state ideology. The second measure, which I call domestic spending
preferences, uses responses on five domestic issues to measure public opinion
in the states. I show the applicability
of both these measures in exploring the dynamic link between elite preferences,
policy outputs, and public opinion at the state level.