Soubhik Barari



Writings

These days, I mostly write for my Substack newsletter called Somewhat Unlikely.

You can read the elevator pitch here (TL;DR: data-driven writings on politics and social science written mostly for a non-academic audience). Most importantly, you can subscribe here.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications


LocalView: A Database of Public Meetings for the Study of Local Politics and Policy-making in the United States (2023)
Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko.
Nature: Scientific Data
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Misinformation Interventions are Common, Divisive, and Poorly Understood (2021)
Emily Saltz, Soubhik Barari, Claire Leibowicz, and Claire Wardle.
HKS Misinformation Review
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Research Preprints


Are Trump's Indictments Rallying His Base? Evidence from the Counterfactual Format (2023)
Soubhik Barari, Alexander Coppock, Matthew Graham, and Zoe Padgett.
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press: The Atlantic  

Political Speech from Corporations is Sparse, Only Recently Liberal, and Moderately Representative: Evidence from Social Media (2023)
Soubhik Barari.
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Political Deepfakes are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media (2022)
Soubhik Barari, Christopher Lucas, and Kevin Munger.
Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Politics
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press: NiemanLab  

The Asymmetric Nationalization of Local Politics (2022)
Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko.
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Democracy and Trade Policy at the Product Level (2022)
Soubhik Barari and In Song Kim.
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Evaluating COVID-19 Public Health Messaging in Italy (2020)
Soubhik Barari, Gary King, and 17 others.
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