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.

Below is a feed of my more academic writing:

Publications

Are Trump's Indictments Rallying His Base? Evidence from the Counterfactual Format (2024)

Soubhik Barari, Alexander Coppock, Matthew Graham, and Zoe Padgett.
Forthcoming at Public Opinion Quarterly

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press: The Atlantic

Political Deepfakes are as Credible as Other Fake Media and (Sometimes) Real Media (2024)

Soubhik Barari, Christopher Lucas, and Kevin Munger.
Forthcoming at Journal of Politics

pdf slides pre-registration replication code

press: NiemanLab

Political Speech from Corporate America: Sparse, Mostly for Democrats, and Somewhat Representative (2024)

Soubhik Barari.
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

publisher version slides

Measuring the Growth of Gender-Inclusive Surveys Around the World (2024)

Zoe Padgett, Sam Gutierrez, Laura Wronski, and Soubhik Barari.
Survey Practice

publisher version

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

publisher version pdf website replication code blog post

Misinformation Interventions are Common, Divisive, and Poorly Understood (2021)

Emily Saltz, Soubhik Barari, Claire Leibowicz, and Claire Wardle.
HKS Misinformation Review

publisher version pdf pre-registration replication code

Technical Reports/Whitepapers

College Ranking Systems: A Methodological Review (2024)

Soubhik Barari, Eric Newsom, Ji Eun Park, Susan Paddock.

pdf project page

press: NORC press release

Evaluating COVID-19 Public Health Messaging in Italy (2020)

Soubhik Barari, Gary King, and 17 others.

pdf medrxiv replication code

press: The Scientific American La Repubblica

Research Preprints

The Asymmetric Nationalization of Local Politics (2022)

Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko.

pdf slides

Democracy and Trade Policy at the Product Level (2022)

Soubhik Barari and In Song Kim.

pdf database

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.