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.

Below is a feed of my more academic writing.


Publications

The Promise of Text, Audio, and Video Data for the Study of US Local Politics and Federalism (2024)
Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko.
Publius: The Journalism of Federalism
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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
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press: NiemanLab  

Political Speech from Corporate America: Sparse, Mostly for Democrats, and Somewhat Representative (2024)
Soubhik Barari.
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Measuring the Growth of Gender-Inclusive Surveys Around the World (2024)
Zoe Padgett, Sam Gutierrez, Laura Wronski, and Soubhik Barari.
Survey Practice
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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
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Technical Reports/Whitepapers

Generative AI Can Enhance Survey Interviews (2024)
Soubhik Barari, Zoe Slowinski, Natalie Wang, Jarret Angbazo, Brandon Sepulvado, Leah Christian, Elizabeth Dean.
research brief  
     

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

Democracy and Trade Policy at the Product Level (2022)
Soubhik Barari and In Song Kim.
pdf   database