Publications
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. In Press. “The Civic Option? Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Consuming Information in Local Elections.” Journal of Experimental Political Science (forthcoming).
Boudreau, Cheryl, Scott A. MacKenzie, and Daniel J. Simmons. 2022. “Police Violence and Public Opinion after George Floyd: How the Black Lives Matter Movement and Endorsements Affect Support for Reforms.” Political Research Quarterly 75(2): 497-511.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2022. “Heuristics and Cues.” In Thomas Rudolph (ed.), Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion (pp. 272-282). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2021. "Following the Money? How Donor Information Affects Public Opinion about Initiatives." Political Research Quarterly 74(3): 511-525.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2021. “Opinion Formation in Light of the Facts: How Correcting Mistaken Beliefs about Income Inequality Affects Public Support for Redistribution.” In David C. Barker and Elizabeth Suhay (eds.), The Politics of Truth in Polarized America (pp. 259-282). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2021. "Transparency in Experimental Research." In James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green (eds.), Advances in Experimental Political Science (pp. 339-353). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Sono Shah. 2020. "Messaging Matters: How Information about Underrepresentation Affects the Political Participation of Racial and Ethnic Groups in California." California Journal of Politics and Policy 12(1): 1-16.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Scott A. MacKenzie, and Daniel J. Simmons. 2019. “Police Violence and Public Perceptions: An Experimental Study of How Information and Endorsements Affect Support for Law Enforcement.” Journal of Politics 81(3): 1101-1110.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2019. “Trust, Communication, and Information after The Democratic Dilemma.” PS: Political Science and Politics 52(4): 638-641.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2019. “The Persuasion Effects of Political Endorsements.” In Bernard Grofman, Elizabeth Suhay, and Alexander H. Trechsel (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2019. “Racial or Spatial Voting? The Effects of Candidate Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Endorsements in Local Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 63(1): 5-20.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Roadmaps to Representation: An Experimental Study of How Voter Education Tools Affect Citizen Decision Making.” Political Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-018-9480-6.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Wanting What is Fair: How Party Cues and Information about Income Inequality Affect Public Support for Taxes.” Journal of Politics 80(2): 367-381.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2015. “Lost in Space? Information Shortcuts, Spatial Voting, and Local Government Representation.” Political Research Quarterly 68(4): 843-855.
Gerber, Alan S., Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, and D. Sunshine Hillygus. 2015. “Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2(2): 216-229.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2015. “Read but not Heard? Engaging Junior Scholars in Efforts to Make Political Science Relevant.” PS: Political Science and Politics 48: 51-54.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2015. “Informing Electorates via Election Law: An Experimental Study of Partisan Endorsements and Nonpartisan Voter Guides in Local Elections.” Election Law Journal 14(1): 2-23.
Gerber, Alan, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry. 2014. “Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 1(1): 81-98.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2014. “Informing the Electorate? How Party Cues and Policy Information Affect Public Opinion about Initiatives.” American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 48-62.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2013. “Gresham’s Law of Political Communication: How Citizens Respond to Conflicting Information.” Political Communication 30(2): 193-212.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2012. “Greater than the Sum of Their Parts? When Combinations of Institutions Improve Citizens’ Decisions.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 24(1): 90-109.
Binder, Michael, Cheryl Boudreau, and Thad Kousser. 2011. “Shortcuts to Deliberation? How Cues Reshape the Role of Information in Direct Democracy Voting.” California Western Law Review 48(1): 97-128.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Arthur Lupia. 2011. “Political Knowledge.” In James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (pp. 171-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Seana Coulson, and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2011. “Pathways to Persuasion: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Study and Practice of Law.” In Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Neuroscience (pp. 395-406). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez, and Nicholas Weller. 2010. “Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How Legal and Political Institutions Can Facilitate Consensus.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 7(4): 868-885.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2010. “The Blind Leading the Blind: Who Gets Polling Information and Does It Improve Decisions?” Journal of Politics, 72(2): 513-527.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2009. “Competition in the Courtroom: When Does Expert Testimony Improve Jurors’ Decisions?” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(4): 793-817.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Closing the Gap: When Do Cues Eliminate Differences between Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Citizens?” Journal of Politics, 71(3): 964-976.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Making Citizens Smart: When Do Institutions Improve Unsophisticated Citizens’ Decisions?” Political Behavior, 31(2): 287-306.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Cues in the Courtroom: When Do They Improve Jurors’ Decisions?” In Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough (eds.), Law, Mind and Brain (pp. 373-389). Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Seana Coulson. 2009. “Knowing When to Trust Others: An ERP Study of Decision Making After Receiving Information from Unknown People.” Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 4(1): 23-34.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2008. “Nothing But the Truth? Experiments on Adversarial Competition, Expert Testimony, and Decision Making.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 5(4): 751-789.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Daniel B. Rodriguez. 2007. “What Statutes Mean: Interpretive Lessons from Positive Theories of Communication and Legislation.” San Diego Law Review, 44(4): 957-992.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2006. “Jurors are Competent Cue-Takers: How Institutions Substitute for Legal Sophistication.” International Journal of Law in Context, 2(3): 293-304.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Daniel B. Rodriguez. 2005. “Statutory Interpretation and the Intentional(ist) Stance.” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 38(5): 2131-2146.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Scott A. MacKenzie, and Daniel J. Simmons. 2022. “Police Violence and Public Opinion after George Floyd: How the Black Lives Matter Movement and Endorsements Affect Support for Reforms.” Political Research Quarterly 75(2): 497-511.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2022. “Heuristics and Cues.” In Thomas Rudolph (ed.), Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion (pp. 272-282). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2021. "Following the Money? How Donor Information Affects Public Opinion about Initiatives." Political Research Quarterly 74(3): 511-525.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2021. “Opinion Formation in Light of the Facts: How Correcting Mistaken Beliefs about Income Inequality Affects Public Support for Redistribution.” In David C. Barker and Elizabeth Suhay (eds.), The Politics of Truth in Polarized America (pp. 259-282). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2021. "Transparency in Experimental Research." In James N. Druckman and Donald P. Green (eds.), Advances in Experimental Political Science (pp. 339-353). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Sono Shah. 2020. "Messaging Matters: How Information about Underrepresentation Affects the Political Participation of Racial and Ethnic Groups in California." California Journal of Politics and Policy 12(1): 1-16.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Scott A. MacKenzie, and Daniel J. Simmons. 2019. “Police Violence and Public Perceptions: An Experimental Study of How Information and Endorsements Affect Support for Law Enforcement.” Journal of Politics 81(3): 1101-1110.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2019. “Trust, Communication, and Information after The Democratic Dilemma.” PS: Political Science and Politics 52(4): 638-641.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2019. “The Persuasion Effects of Political Endorsements.” In Bernard Grofman, Elizabeth Suhay, and Alexander H. Trechsel (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2019. “Racial or Spatial Voting? The Effects of Candidate Ethnicity and Ethnic Group Endorsements in Local Elections.” American Journal of Political Science 63(1): 5-20.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Roadmaps to Representation: An Experimental Study of How Voter Education Tools Affect Citizen Decision Making.” Political Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-018-9480-6.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Wanting What is Fair: How Party Cues and Information about Income Inequality Affect Public Support for Taxes.” Journal of Politics 80(2): 367-381.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2015. “Lost in Space? Information Shortcuts, Spatial Voting, and Local Government Representation.” Political Research Quarterly 68(4): 843-855.
Gerber, Alan S., Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, and D. Sunshine Hillygus. 2015. “Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2(2): 216-229.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2015. “Read but not Heard? Engaging Junior Scholars in Efforts to Make Political Science Relevant.” PS: Political Science and Politics 48: 51-54.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2015. “Informing Electorates via Election Law: An Experimental Study of Partisan Endorsements and Nonpartisan Voter Guides in Local Elections.” Election Law Journal 14(1): 2-23.
Gerber, Alan, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry. 2014. “Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 1(1): 81-98.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2014. “Informing the Electorate? How Party Cues and Policy Information Affect Public Opinion about Initiatives.” American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 48-62.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2013. “Gresham’s Law of Political Communication: How Citizens Respond to Conflicting Information.” Political Communication 30(2): 193-212.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2012. “Greater than the Sum of Their Parts? When Combinations of Institutions Improve Citizens’ Decisions.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 24(1): 90-109.
Binder, Michael, Cheryl Boudreau, and Thad Kousser. 2011. “Shortcuts to Deliberation? How Cues Reshape the Role of Information in Direct Democracy Voting.” California Western Law Review 48(1): 97-128.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Arthur Lupia. 2011. “Political Knowledge.” In James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science (pp. 171-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Seana Coulson, and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2011. “Pathways to Persuasion: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Study and Practice of Law.” In Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Neuroscience (pp. 395-406). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez, and Nicholas Weller. 2010. “Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How Legal and Political Institutions Can Facilitate Consensus.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 7(4): 868-885.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2010. “The Blind Leading the Blind: Who Gets Polling Information and Does It Improve Decisions?” Journal of Politics, 72(2): 513-527.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2009. “Competition in the Courtroom: When Does Expert Testimony Improve Jurors’ Decisions?” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(4): 793-817.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Closing the Gap: When Do Cues Eliminate Differences between Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Citizens?” Journal of Politics, 71(3): 964-976.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Making Citizens Smart: When Do Institutions Improve Unsophisticated Citizens’ Decisions?” Political Behavior, 31(2): 287-306.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2009. “Cues in the Courtroom: When Do They Improve Jurors’ Decisions?” In Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough (eds.), Law, Mind and Brain (pp. 373-389). Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Seana Coulson. 2009. “Knowing When to Trust Others: An ERP Study of Decision Making After Receiving Information from Unknown People.” Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 4(1): 23-34.
Boudreau, Cheryl and Mathew D. McCubbins. 2008. “Nothing But the Truth? Experiments on Adversarial Competition, Expert Testimony, and Decision Making.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 5(4): 751-789.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Daniel B. Rodriguez. 2007. “What Statutes Mean: Interpretive Lessons from Positive Theories of Communication and Legislation.” San Diego Law Review, 44(4): 957-992.
- Excerpts reprinted in Strauss, Peter L. 2008. Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes. Foundation Press.
Boudreau, Cheryl. 2006. “Jurors are Competent Cue-Takers: How Institutions Substitute for Legal Sophistication.” International Journal of Law in Context, 2(3): 293-304.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, and Daniel B. Rodriguez. 2005. “Statutory Interpretation and the Intentional(ist) Stance.” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 38(5): 2131-2146.