Research

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My published peer-reviewed research has mainly fallen into two categories: American politics and neuroscience. At this point in my career I am primarily active in the former rather than the latter. Peer reviewed publications are listed below as well as papers under review and working papers. Various additional public-facing scholarship and non-peer reviewed writing is scattered around the internet.

Political Science Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Young, Sarah, and Matthew P. Thornburg. 2024. “Citizen Preferences and Awareness of Tax Revenue Options: Public Opinion on South Carolina’s ‘Tax Swap’.” State and Local Government Review 56(1). [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P., and Robert E. Botsch. 2023. “Using Exit Polls to Teach Students and Sustain a Scholarly Agenda,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Teaching and Research in Political Science, eds. Charity Butcher, Tavishi Bhasin, Elizabeth Gordon, and Maia Hallward (London: Palgrave McMillan). [Link to Chapter]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2023. “The Dynamics of Hidden Partisanship and Crossover Voting in Semi-closed Primaries.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 23(2). [Link to Paper]
  • Young, Sarah, Matthew P. Thornburg, and David Wilson Steinmeyer. 2022. “Tax Salience, Escrow, and Support for Property Tax.” Journal of Political Science 50(1). [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2021. “Party Registration Deadlines and Hidden Partisanship: An Individual Analysis.” Commonwealth Review of Political Science 19(1). [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2020. “Anatomy of a One-Party Region: The Primacy of Race and White Partisanship in Southern State Legislative Elections.” Journal of Political Science 48(1). [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2019. “Party Registration Closing Date and Primary Turnout Among Democrats and Republicans.” New England Journal of Political Science 11(2): 160-196. [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2018. “Sooner or Later: Oklahoma Party Registration and Delayed Realignment.” Oklahoma Politics 28: 1 – 26. [Link to Paper]
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. 2014. “Party Registration and Party Self-Identification: Exploring the Role of Electoral Institutions in Attitudes and Behaviors.” Electoral Studies 36: 137 – 148. [Link to Paper]
  • McDonald, Michael P., and Matthew P. Thornburg. 2012. “Interview Mode Effects: The Case of Exit Polls and Early Voting.” Public Opinion Quarterly 76(2): 326 – 349. [Link to Paper]

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

  • McDonald, Michael P., and Matthew P Thornburg. 2012. “Registering the Youth Through Preregistration.” NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 13: 551 – 572. [Link to Paper]
  • McDonald, Michael P., and Matthew P. Thornburg. 2008. “Redistricting,” in Political Encyclopedia of US States and Regions, ed. Donald Haider-Markel (Washington DC: CQ Press).

Papers Under Review/Working Papers

  • Georgian, Elizabeth and Matthew P. Thornburg. “Intersections and Intersectionality: Lessons from Establishing a Mock Trial Program at a Public Regional University.” (Revise and resubmit)
  • Thornburg, Matthew P., Garrison Davis, and Duncan A. Buell. “Understanding Nonpartisan Roll-Off Among Straight Party Voters.” (Under review)
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. and Elizabeth Georgian. “Murder on an Island: Learning About the Law Through a Simulation.” (In preparation)
  • Thornburg, Matthew P. “Semi-Closed Primaries, Unaffiliated Registration, and Crossover Voting: The Case of Rhode Island.” (In preparation)

Neuroscience Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Kapogiannis, Dimitrios, Gopikrishna Deshpande, Frank Krueger, Matthew P. Thornburg and Jordan Henry Grafman. 2014. “Brain Networks Shaping Religious Belief.” Brain Connectivity 4(1): 70 – 79. [Link to Paper]
  • Krueger, Frank, Raja Parasuraman, Vijeth Iyengar, Matthew P. Thornburg, Jaap Weel, Mingkuan Lin, Ellen Clarke, Kevin McCabe, and Robert Lipsky. “Oxytocin Receptor Genetic Variation Promotes Human Trust Behavior.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6: 4. [Link to Paper]