Publications

2026 Can AI ‘digital twins’ replace human respondents? Peter K. Enns · Verasight Report · needs review — 2026 How a Seemingly Innocuous and Intuitive Methodological Choice Confused a Generation of Research on Policy Responsiveness Peter K. Enns · Sociological Science · needs review 1 2026 Issue Attention in Public Opinion Polls: Pollsters as Agenda Responders and Agenda Setters Peter K. Enns · Policy Studies Journal · needs review 1 2026 One of the Most Prominent Findings in Political Science Might Be Wrong. Peter K. Enns · 3Streams · needs review — 2026 Probability-Based Samples Can No Longer Serve as the Heuristic for Accurate and Representative Surveys Peter K. Enns · Verasight Report — 2026 The primary election study 2024 dataset on U.S. Senate primary elections Peter K. Enns · Data in Brief · needs review 0 2025 Don't jettison the general error correction model just yet: A practical guide to avoiding spurious regression with the GECM (vol 3, 205316801664334, 2016) Peter K. Enns · RESEARCH & POLITICS · Scholar only — 2025 How Concern with Government Overregulation and Racial Animus Reshaped the Republican Party and Fueled Trump’s Electoral Appeal Peter K. Enns · Palgrave Studies in US Elections 0 2025 Moving forward with time series analysis (vol. 4, 10.1177/2053168017732231, 2017) Peter K. Enns · RESEARCH & POLITICS · Scholar only — 2025 Revealing long-term trajectories of public opinion and polling in Britain: a new resource of historical data from the Gallup Poll in Britain, 1955-1991 Peter K. Enns · Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 0 2025 The Future of Election Polls. Peter K. Enns · 3Streams · needs review — 2025 The Limits of Synthetic Samples in Survey Research. Peter K. Enns · Verasight Report · needs review — 2025 When did the Supreme Court stop caring about public opinion? Peter K. Enns · Los Angeles Times — 2024 Reconsidering the Relationship between Incarceration, Trust in the State, Community Engagement, and Civic Participation Peter K. Enns · Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 1 2024 Understanding Biden’s Exit and the 2024 Election: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model Peter K. Enns · PS Political Science & Politics · needs review 9 2023 Despite party differences, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly say they’ll help each other. Peter K. Enns · 3Streams · needs review — 2023 Introducing the U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset: Rejoinder to Berry, Fording, and Crofoot Peter K. Enns · State Politics & Policy Quarterly · needs review 0 2023 Policy mood and thermostatic representation in developing democracies: taking the temperature in Uruguay Peter K. Enns · Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 3 2023 The U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset: Analyzing More than One Million Survey Respondents from 1948 to 2020. Peter K. Enns · Roper Center for Public Opinion Research 1 2022 A Validation and Extension of State-Level Public Policy Mood: 1956–2020 Peter K. Enns · State Politics & Policy Quarterly · needs review 18 2022 How the Same Data Can Produce Divergent Conclusions about the Quality of Democratic Responsiveness in the United States Peter K. Enns · Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings, and Reforms 6 2022 Inequality and Misperceptions of Group Concerns Threaten the Integrity and Societal Impact of Science Peter K. Enns · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 14 2022 Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales Peter K. Enns · The British Journal of Criminology · needs review 17 2022 Why aren’t Americans Rallying around Biden during a War? Peter K. Enns · Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog · needs review — 2022 Will Biden and Trump face off again in 2024? Peter K. Enns · Washington Post — 2021 Americans aren’t learning about anti-Asian bias. Peter K. Enns · Washington Post — 2021 Complicating the Role of White Racial Attitudes and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the 2016 US Presidential Election Peter K. Enns · Public Opinion Quarterly 84 2021 Detecting true relationships in time series data with different orders of integration Peter K. Enns · Political Science Research and Methods · needs review 4 2021 Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence Peter K. Enns · Russell Sage Foundation 90 2021 Rethinking Joe Biden’s “Resurgence” Peter K. Enns · Palgrave Studies in US Elections · needs review 1 2021 Revisiting the ‘gold standard’ of polling: new methods outperformed traditional ones in 2020. Peter K. Enns · 3Streams · needs review — 2021 Using Election Forecasts to Understand the Potential Influence of Campaigns, Media, and the Law in U.S. Presidential Elections Peter K. Enns · University of Miami Law Review · needs review 5 2020 Democrats named Biden, Sanders and Warren as their top picks 18 months ago. What did the primaries change? Peter K. Enns · Washington Post · needs review — 2020 Despite differing views, Democrats and Republicans report similar impacts of pandemic. Peter K. Enns · 3Streams · needs review — 2020 Forecasting the 2020 Electoral College Winner: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model Peter K. Enns · PS Political Science & Politics · needs review 25 2020 How do Brits react to an epidemic: what can polling from the past tell us? Peter K. Enns · Mile End Institute · needs review — 2020 Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race. By Hannah L. Walker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 216p. $99.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. Peter K. Enns · Perspectives on Politics · needs review 0 2020 Review of Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications Peter K. Enns · American Review of Politics · needs review 0 2020 Shifting views on “global warming” and “climate change” in the United States Peter K. Enns · Journal of Environmental Psychology 13 2020 Trump May Be Even More Unpopular Than His Approval Rating Shows. Peter K. Enns · FiveThirtyEight · needs review — 2020 We predicted the states Biden would win 100 days before the election. Peter K. Enns · Washington Post — 2019 Economic Evaluations and Political Change in Chile, 1966 to 2018 Peter K. Enns · Public Opinion Quarterly 3 2019 Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise. Peter K. Enns · Washington Post — 2019 What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence Peter K. Enns · Scholar only — 2019 What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS) Peter K. Enns · Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World · needs review 248 2019 What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS). Socius 5 (2019), 1–45 Peter K. Enns · Scholar only 2 2018 Privatizing Punishment: Testing Theories of Public Support of Private Prison and Immigration Detention Facilities Peter K. Enns · Criminology 135 2018 Reconsidering Representation Peter K. Enns · Scholar only 1 2018 Trump and the deep divide on environmental quality. Peter K. Enns · The Hill · needs review — 2018 Trump’s Political Base is Weaker Than It Seems, Our New Study Finds Peter K. Enns · Washington Post · needs review 2