Research

Book 

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. The Politics of Perception: How American Beliefs About Women's Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S.  Under contract with Oxford University Press 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Judicial Nominees." Accepted for publication at Politics, Groups, and Identities.

• Stauffer, Katelyn E., Susan Miller and Lael Keiser. 2023. "Compliance with Public Health Orders: The Role of Trust, Representation, and Expertise." Political Research Quarterly 76(4): 1888 - 1905. 

• Stauffer, Katelyn E., Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Kelsey M. Martin-Morales, Riley Lankes, Tobias Heinrich and Catherine R. Goodwin. 2023. "The Missing Fingerprints: Women Legislators and International Development Aid." Politics & Gender 19(2): 585-610.

• Stauffer, Katelyn E., Miyeon Song, and Kelsey Shoub. 2023. "How Police Agency Diversity, Policies & Outcomes Shape Citizen Trust and Willingness to Engage." Policy Studies Journal 51(4): 929-950.

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2023. "Gender and Ambition among Potential Law Clerks." Journal of Law and Courts 11(1): 116-140.

  • • • Honorable Mention: 2021 Law and Courts Best Conference Paper Award

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2023. "Diversity in Judicial Nominations and Perceptions of Presidential Accomplishment." Representation 59(2): 249-270.

• Strickland, James and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2022. "Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists." Political Research Quarterly 75(3): 531-546.

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. and Colin A. Fisk. 2022. "Are You My Candidate? Gender, Undervoting, and Vote Choice in Same-party Matchups.'' Politics & Gender 18(3): 575-604. 

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. and Bernard L. Fraga. 2022."Contextualizing the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout." Politics, Groups, and Identities 10(2): 334-341.  

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. 2022. "The Interview: Using Student Conducted Interviews to Reinforce Class Content." Journal of Political Science Education 18(1): 150-160.

• Stauffer, Katelyn E.  2021. "Public Perceptions of Women's Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy." American Political Science Review 115(4): 1226-1241. 

  • • • Winner: 2021 SPSA Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best overall conference paper

      • Winner: 2021 SPSA Marian Irish Award for best paper on women and politics 

      • Winner: 2020 MPSA Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for best paper on women and politics

• Shoub, Kelsey, Katelyn E. Stauffer, and Miyeon Song. 2021. "Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops." American Journal of Political Science 65(3): 755-769.

  • • • Winner: 2021 APSA Herbert Kaufman Award for best paper on public administration 

      • Media Coverage: The Monkey Cage , Slate

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. and Diana Z. O'Brien. 2019. "Fast Friends or Strange Bedfellows? Quantitative Methods and Gender and Politics Research." European Journal of Politics and Gender 2(2): 151-171. 

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2019. "Michelle Obama as a Political Symbol: Race, Gender, and Public Opinion towards the First Lady." Politics & Gender 15(3): 431-459. 

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2019. "Voting for Women in Nonpartisan and Partisan Elections." Electoral Studies 57: 245-255. 

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. and Diana Z. O'Brien. 2018. "Quantitative Methods and Feminist Political Science." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, edited by William R. Thompson. 

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2018. "Someone Like Me: Descriptive Representation and Support for Supreme Court Nominees." Political Research Quarterly 71(1): 127-142. 

Book Project

• Shoub, Kelsey, Miyeon Song, and Katelyn E. Stauffer. Pink Policing: Officer Gender, Policing Outcomes, and Citizen Trust in Democracy. 

Articles in Preparation

• Badas, Alex, Bailey Sanders, and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "The Role of Gender and Ideology in Hiring Female Law Clerks." (invited to revise and resubmit)

• King, Jonathan, Jessica Schoenherr, and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "How Diversifying the Federal Bench Changes the Supreme Court Bar."

• King, Jonathan, Jessica Schoenherr, and Katelyn E. Stauffer. '"You Reached Out to Me for Help': Female Attorneys, Anti-Feminist Causes, and Their Effects on Symbolic Representation." 

  • • Winner: 2024 SPSA C. Neal Tate Award for best paper on judicial politics

• Stauffer, Katelyn E. "Record Breakers: How Narratives About Women's Emergence Shape Symbolic Representation"

• Piscopo, Jennifer and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "She's Too Ambitious: Does Running for Office Penalize Women in Politics."

  • • • Winner: 2021 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize 

• Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "Perceptions of Women's Representation and Evaluations of Judicial Legitimacy." 

• Connors, Elizabeth and Katelyn E. Stauffer. "The Femin[ist] Mystique: How Group Perceptions Shape Affect and Identity."