All papers are also on Google Scholar.

Articles

Reiss, Michael V., Susanne J. Adler, Christopher Barrie, Jana B. Berkessel, Johannes Breuer, Abel Brodeur, Garret Christensen, Tobias Dienlin, Jeremy Freese, Ben Greiner, Mario Haim, Tom E. Hardwicke, Magnus Johannesson, Gary King, Frauke Kreuter, Christopher Lucas, et al. "Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences." Nature Human Behaviour (2026), Comment.

Kim, Dahjin, Taishi Muraoka, Christopher Lucas, Jacob M. Montgomery, and Margit Tavits. "Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions." Political Science Research and Methods 14, no. 3 (2026): 816-832.

Damann, Taylor, Dean Knox, and Christopher Lucas. "A framework for studying causal effects of speech style: application to US presidential campaigns." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 189, no. 2 (2026): 1184-1203.

Muraoka, Taishi, Dahjin Kim, Christopher Lucas, Jacob Montgomery, and Margit Tavits. "Speaking their language?: Multilingualism in party communication across democracies." American Journal of Political Science 70, no. 2 (2026): 752-767.

Liu, Naijia, Xinlan Emily Hu, Yasemin Savas, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Allison J. B. Chaney, Christopher Lucas, Rei Mariman, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Andrew M. Guess, Dean Knox, and Brandon M. Stewart. "Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 8 (2025): e2318127122.

Barari, Soubhik, Christopher Lucas, and Kevin Munger. "Political Deepfakes Are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media." Journal of Politics 87, no. 2 (2025): 510-526.
Published version
• Honorable Mention, Best Information Technology & Politics Article, APSA, 2026

Knox, Dean, Christopher Lucas, and Wendy K. Tam Cho. "Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies." Annual Review of Political Science 25 (2022): 419-441.

Knox, Dean, and Christopher Lucas. "A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences." American Political Science Review 115, no. 2 (2021): 649-666.
• Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology, 2020

Muraoka, Taishi, Jacob Montgomery, Christopher Lucas, and Margit Tavits. "Love and Anger in Global Party Politics: Facebook Reactions to Political Party Posts in 79 Democracies." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1, no. 1 (2021).

Mehr, Samuel, Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, Daniel Ketter, Daniel Pickens-Jones, Stephanie Atwood, Christopher Lucas, Alena Egner, Nori Jacoby, Erin J. Hopkins, Rhea M. Howard, Joshua Hartshorne, Mariela Jennings, Jan Simson, Constance Bainbridge, Steven Pinker, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Max Krasnow, and Luke Glowacki. "Universality and diversity in human song." Science 366, no. 6468 (2019): eaax0868.

White, Ariel, Anton Strezhnev, Christopher Lucas, Dominika Kruszewska, and Connor Huff. "Investigator Characteristics and Respondent Behavior in Online Surveys." Journal of Experimental Political Science 5, no. 1 (2018): 56-67.

King, Gary, Christopher Lucas, and Richard Nielsen. "The Balance-Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference." American Journal of Political Science 61, no. 2 (2017): 473-489.

Lucas, Christopher, Richard A. Nielsen, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Alex Storer, and Dustin Tingley. "Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics." Political Analysis 23, no. 2 (2015): 254-277.

Charnysh, Volha, Christopher Lucas, and Prerna Singh. "The Ties that Bind: National Identity Salience and Pro-Social Behavior Toward the Ethnic Other." Comparative Political Studies 48, no. 3 (2015): 267-300.

Roberts, Margaret E., Brandon M. Stewart, Dustin Tingley, Christopher Lucas, Jetson Leder-Luis, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Bethany Albertson, and David G. Rand. "Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses." American Journal of Political Science 58, no. 4 (2014): 1064-1082.
• Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology, 2014

Chapters

Barrie, Christopher, Lisa P. Argyle, James Bisbee, Michael Heseltine, Christopher Lucas, Jon Mellon, Alexis Palmer, Margaret Roberts, and Arthur Spirling. "AI and Research Methods." In Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science, edited by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Lin, Gechun, and Christopher Lucas. "An Introduction to Neural Networks for the Social Sciences." In The Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science, Vol. 1, edited by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Select Working Papers

Larreguy, Horacio, Christopher Lucas, John Marshall, and Zara Riaz. "Don't Read All About It: Drug Trafficking Organizations and Media Reporting of Violence in Mexico."