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Peter K. Enns whitespace Peter K. Enns Contact Information Office: 205 White Hall Web: www.peterenns.org Cornell University Email: [email protected] Ithaca, NY 14853 Employment 2007- Cornell University Professor, Department of Government (2021{present) Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy (2021{present) Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences (2021{present) Executive Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (2015{present) Co-Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences (2019{2021) Associate Professor, Department of Government (2014{2020) Assistant Professor, Department of Government (2007{2014) Faculty Director, Cornell Prison Education Program (2009{2010) 2011-2012 Princeton University Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Education 2007 Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Committee: James A. Stimson (Chair), Michael B. MacKuen, George Rabinowitz, Marco Steenbergen, and Paul M. Kellstedt (Texas A&M University) 2004 M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1998 B.A., Colorado College (Cum Laude) Books 2021 Witko, Christopher, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns. Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2016 Enns, Peter K. Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed in: American Journal of Sociology, American Review of Politics, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Przeglad Wieziennictwa Polskiego (Polish Penitentiary System Journal), Public Opinion Quarterly 2011 Enns, Peter K. and Christopher Wlezien, eds. Who Gets Represented? New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Articles and Chapters Enns, Peter K., Carolina Moehlecke, and Christopher Wlezien. \Detecting True Relationships in Time Series Data with Different Orders of Integration." Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming. Enns, Peter K. and Ashley Jardina. \Complicating the Role of White Racial Attitudes and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the 2016 US Presidential Election" Public Opinion Quarterly. Forthcoming. Last updated { September 2021 1 2021 Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Rethinking Joe Biden's `Resurgence.'" In The 2020 Democratic Primary, ed. Luke Perry. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Enns, Peter K. and Julius Lagodny. \Using Election Forecasts to Understand the Potential Influence of Campaigns, Media, and the Law in U.S. Presidential Elections" University of Miami Law Review 75(2): 509-546. Enns, Peter K. and Julius Lagodny. \Forecasting the 2020 Electoral College Winner: The State Presidential Approval/State Economy Model" PS: Political Science & Politics 54(1): 81-85. 2020 Schuldt, Jonathon P., Peter K. Enns, Sara Konrath, and Norbert Schwarz. \Shifting views on \global warming" and \climate change" in the United States." Journal of Environmental Psychology 69: 1-3. 2019 Enns, Peter K. and Jose T. Sanchez-Gomez. \Economic Evaluations and Political Change in Chile, 1966 to 2018." Public Opinion Quarterly 83(3): 627-639. Enns, Peter K., Youngmin Yi, Megan Comfort, Alyssa Goldman, Hedwig Lee, Christopher Muller, Sara Wakefield, Emily A. Wang, and Christopher Wildeman. \What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated? Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS)." Socius Vol.5: 1-45. 2018 Enns, Peter K. and Mark Ramirez. \Privatizing Punishment: Testing Theories of Public Support of Private Prison and Immigration Detention Facilities" Criminology 56(3): 546-573. Enns, Peter K. and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. \Making Sense of the Supreme Court{Public Opinion Relationship" In Handbook of Judicial Behavior, eds. Robert M. Howard and Kirk Randazzo. New York: Taylor & Francis. 2017 Enns, Peter K., Julius Lagodny, and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Understanding the 2016 U.S. Pres- idential Polls: The Importance of Hidden Trump Supporters." Statistics, Politics and Policy 8(1): 41-63. Enns, Peter K., Nathan J. Kelly, Takaaki Masaki, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. \Moving Forward with Time Series Analysis." Research and Politics 4(4): 1-7. Enns, Peter K. and Christopher Wlezien. \Understanding Equation Balance in Time Series Regression." The Political Methodologist 24(2): 2-12. Schuldt, Jonathon P., Peter K. Enns, and Victoria Cavaliere. \Does the label really matter? Ev- idence the US public continues to doubt `global warming' more than `climate change'. " Climatic Change 143(1-2): 271-280. 2016 Enns, Peter K., Nathan J. Kelly, Takaaki Masaki, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. \Don't Jettison the General Error Correction Model Just Yet: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Spurious Regression with the GECM." Research and Politics 3(2): 1-16. 2015 Enns, Peter K. \Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation." Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1053-1064. Enns, Peter K. \Reconsidering the Middle: A Reply to Gilens." Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1072-1074. Enns, Peter K. and Julianna Koch. \State Policy Mood: The Importance of Over-Time Dy- namics." State Politics and Policy Quarterly 15(4): 436-446. Last updated { September 2021 2 Enns, Peter K. \Comment on `Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New stylized facts and some tentative explanations'." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Spring: 406-417. 2014 Enns, Peter K. \The Public's Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United States." The American Journal of Political Science 58(4): 857-872 Enns, Peter K. Nathan J. Kelly, Jana Morgan, Thomas Volscho, and Christopher Witko. \Con- ditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich." The Journal of Politics 76(2): 289-303. 2013 Enns, Peter K. and Patrick Wohlfarth. \The Swing Justice." The Journal of Politics 75(4): 1089-1107. Enns, Peter K. and Julianna Koch. \Public Opinion in the U.S. States: 1956-2010." State Politics and Policy Quarterly 13(3): 349-372. Allan Saxe Award for the best paper on state and local politics presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. Enns, Peter K. and Brian Richman. \Presidential Campaigns and the Fundamentals Reconsid- ered." The Journal of Politics 75(3): 803-820. 2012 Enns, Peter K. and Gregory E. McAvoy. \The Role of Partisanship in Aggregate Opinion." Political Behavior 34(4): 627-651. Enns, Peter K., Paul M. Kellstedt and Gregory E. McAvoy. \The Consequences of Partisanship in Economic Perceptions." Public Opinion Quarterly 76(2): 287-310. 2011 Casillas, Christopher, Peter K. Enns, and Patrick Wohlfarth. \How Public Opinion Constrains the U.S. Supreme Court." The American Journal of Political Science 55(1): 74-88. Enns, Peter K. and Christopher Wlezien. \Group Opinion and the Study of Representation." In Who Gets Represented? edited by Peter K. Enns and Christopher Wlezien. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2010 Kelly, Nathan J. and Peter K. Enns. \Inequality and the Dynamics of Public Opinion: The Self- Reinforcing Link Between Economic Inequality and Mass Preferences." The American Journal of Political Science 54(4): 855-870. McAvoy, Gregory E. and Peter K. Enns. \Using Approval of the President's Handling of the Economy to Understand Who Polarizes and Why." Presidential Studies Quarterly 40(3): 545- 558. 2008 Enns, Peter K. and Paul M. Kellstedt. \Policy Mood and Political Sophistication: Why Every- body Moves Mood." The British Journal of Political Science 38(3): 433-454. Select Op-Eds, Book Reviews, and Essays 2021 Schuldt, Jonathon P., Peter K. Enns, Katherine Zaslavsky, and Byungdoo Kim. \Americans aren't learning about anti-Asian bias." Washington Post Apr. 23. Enns, Peter K. and Jake Rothschild. \Revisiting the `gold standard' of polling: new methods outperformed traditional ones in 2020." 3Streams Mar. 18. 2020 Enns, Peter K. and Julius Lagodny. \We predicted the states Biden would win 100 days before the election." Washington Post Nov. 12. Last updated { September 2021 3 Enns, Peter K. \Review of: Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Partic- ipation, and Race." Perspectives on Politics 18(4): 121416. Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Despite differing views, Democrats and Republicans report similar impacts of pandemic" 3Streams Aug. 21. Kenny, John, Nick Or, Andra Roescu, Will Jennings, and Peter K. Enns. \How do Brits react to an epidemic: what can polling from the past tell us?" Mile End Institute. March 28. Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Democrats named Biden, Sanders and Warren as their top picks 18 months ago. What did the primaries change?" Washington Post. March 16. Enns, Peter K. \Book Review of Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications." American Review of Politics. 37(1):142-145. Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Trump May Be Even More Unpopular Than His Approval Rating Shows." FiveThirtyEight. January 17. 2019 Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise." Washington Post. July 29. 2018 Enns, Peter K. and Jonathon P. Schuldt. \Why Trump's immigration rhetoric may not help Republicans at the polls." Washington Post. November 6. Schuldt, Jonathon P. and Peter K. Enns. \Trump and the deep divide on environmental quality." The Hill. September 19. Enns, Peter K., Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Adrienne Scott. \Trump's Political Base is Weaker than it Seems." 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