Charles Crabtree

About

I’m an expert on discrimination, focusing on measuring it in new contexts and sometimes for understudied identity groups, developing better methodological approaches for studying it, and finding ways of decreasing it. My interest in discrimination stems both from my own life experiences and my earlier work on censorship and human rights. Researching censorship taught me how to understand better what attitudes and actions people conceal and why, and studying human rights showed me that while most countries ostensibly guarantee human rights, these rights are not provided equally across groups. In the past, I’ve published work documenting and explaining discrimination against a wide range of identity groups, including those defined by disability, ethnicity, gender, nativity, race, and religion. Moving forward, I’m primarily focused on studying class-based discrimination. Growing up in poverty - without a home and then in a trailer park - taught me much about the role of class and money in politics and society. While cash rules everything around us (with apologies to the Wu-Tang Clan), this topic remains largely ignored in political science. Most of my work uses field or survey experiments and has focused primarily on the United States. To put my work there in a broader perspective and better understand the global variation we see in how people treat each other, I also work across an increasingly expansive set of cases with projects in Eastern Europe, India, Japan, and South America.

Work

Dartmouth College

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Assistant Professor

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Visiting Assistant Professor

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Education

University of Michigan

United States of America
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Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University

United States of America
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M.A.

Northwestern University

United States of America
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M.A.

University of Colorado

United States of America
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B.A.

Publications

Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps

Social Science Japan Journal

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Geo-Political Rivalry and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: A Conjoint Experiment in 22 Countries

American Political Science Review

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Missing Results of Discrimination: A Systematically Comparative Meta-Analysis and Re-Examinations of Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination using Correspondence Audits

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Yes, you can do global, cross-cultural behavioral science research using existing survey firms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Geo-political rivalry and anti-immigrant sentiment. A conjoint experiment in 22 countries

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Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

International Interactions

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Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Heterogeneity Across Schools in the U.S. Public Education System: A Correspondence Audit of Principals

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Workers are willing to trade wages for better harassment reporting procedures

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Selective Development Goals: Examining Japan’s SDG Implementation Gaps

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Perceived Motives of Public Diplomacy Influence Foreign Public Opinion

Political Behavior

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Field Research When There Is Limited Access to the Field: Lessons from Japan

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Why the Public Supports the Human Rights of Prisoners and Asylum Seekers: An Experimental Approach

Political Research Quarterly

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Perceived Motives of Public Diplomacy Influence Foreign Public Opinion

Political Behavior

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New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices

Journal of Human Rights

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New evidence that naming and shaming influences state human rights practices

Journal of Human Rights

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Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity

Scientific Data

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Validated names for experimental studies on race and ethnicity

Scientific Data

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Education and Public Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Education and Public Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Do Identity Frames Impact Support for Multiracial Candidates? The Case of Kamala Harris

Journal of Experimental Political Science

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Do Identity Frames Impact Support for Multiracial Candidates? The Case of Kamala Harris

Journal of Experimental Political Science

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Migrant-Family Separation and Higher-Order Laws' Diverging Normative Force

The Journal of Legal Studies

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Sponsorship Effects in Online Surveys

Political Behavior

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When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms

British Journal of Political Science

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When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms

British Journal of Political Science

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Reply to Mitterer: Conceptual and empirical issues that arise when using correspondence audits to measure racial discrimination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Reply to Mitterer: Conceptual and empirical issues that arise when using correspondence audits to measure racial discrimination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Introduction

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Building Community and Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science Through Virtual Workshops

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars

PS: Political Science & Politics

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WORKSHOPS WITHOUT BORDERS: BUILDING AN ONLINE COMMUNITY OF JAPAN SCHOLARS

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Electoral coalition signals and voter perceptions

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Electoral coalition signals and voter perceptions

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders’ choices on how to best allocate life-saving care

Nature Human Behaviour

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Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders' choices on how to best allocate life-saving care

Nature Human Behaviour

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National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic.

Nature communications

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National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

Nature Communications

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Auditing Ethics: A Cost-Benefit Framework for Audit Studies

Political Studies Review

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National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (vol 13, 517, 2022)

Nature Communications

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Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class

Sociological Science

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Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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How Asians React to Discrimination Does Not Depend on Their Party Identification

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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How Asians React to Discrimination Does Not Depend on Their Party Identification

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Measuring Gender Role Attitudes in Japan

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Measuring Gender Role Attitudes in Japan

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Do Street-Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large-Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals

Public Administration Review

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Evade and Deceive? Citizen Responses to Surveillance

The Journal of Politics

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Policing and Political Violence

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Cults of personality, preference falsification, and the dictator's dilemma

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

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A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

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Gender differences in the prosecution of police assault: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

PLOS ONE

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Gender differences in the prosecution of police assault: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

Plos One

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Cults of personality, preference falsification, and the dictator’s dilemma

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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It Is Not Only What You Say, It Is Also How You Say It: The Strategic Use of Campaign Sentiment

The Journal of Politics

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It Is Not Only What You Say, It Is Also How You Say It: The Strategic Use of Campaign Sentiment

The Journal of Politics

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Sponsorship Effects in Online Surveys

Political Behavior

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Territorial Contenders in World Politics

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Territorial Contenders in World Politics

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Patterns of disagreement in indicators of state repression

Political Science Research and Methods

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Patterns of disagreement in indicators of state repression

Political Science Research and Methods

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Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials

Journal of Experimental Political Science

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Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials

Journal of Experimental Political Science

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Ideology Justifies Morality: Political Beliefs Predict Moral Foundations

American Journal of Political Science

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Ideology Justifies Morality: Political Beliefs Predict Moral Foundations

American Journal of Political Science

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Judging Judicial Review in the American States

State Politics & Policy Quarterly

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Judging Judicial Review in the American States

State Politics & Policy Quarterly

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Evaluating the influence of international norms and shaming on state respect for rights: an audit experiment with foreign embassies

International Interactions

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Evaluating the influence of international norms and shaming on state respect for rights: an audit experiment with foreign embassies

International Interactions

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Domestic Demand for Human Rights: Free Speech and the Freedom-Security Trade-Off

International Studies Quarterly

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Domestic Demand for Human Rights: Free Speech and the Freedom-Security Trade-Off

International Studies Quarterly

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Legislative representation and gender (bias)

Political Science

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Legislative representation and gender (bias)

Political Science

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It’s All about Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents

Political Research Quarterly

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It's All about Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents

Political Research Quarterly

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Using Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Models for Radio and Television Broadcasts: An Introduction

Political Analysis

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Using Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Models for Radio and Television Broadcasts: An Introduction

Political Analysis

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Mass Media and the Diffusion of Collective Action in Authoritarian Regimes: The June 1953 East German Uprising

International Studies Quarterly

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Mass Media and the Diffusion of Collective Action in Authoritarian Regimes: The June 1953 East German Uprising

International Studies Quarterly

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Using Google Trends to Measure Issue Salience for Hard-to-Survey Populations

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Contentious Politics in the Trump Era

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Contentious Politics in the Trump Era

PS: Political Science & Politics

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Last Name Selection in Audit Studies

Sociological Science

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Last Name Selection in Audit Studies

Sociological Science

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Plotrr: Functions for making visual exploratory data analysis with nested data easier.

The Journal of Open Source Software

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New Evidence for a Positive Relationship between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights

International Studies Quarterly

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New Evidence for a Positive Relationship Between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights

International Studies Quarterly

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New Evidence for a Positive Relationship between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights

International Studies Quarterly

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The relationship between sexual preferences and political orientations: Do positions in the bedroom affect positions in the ballot box?

Personality and Individual Differences

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The relationship between sexual preferences and political orientations: Do positions in the bedroom affect positions in the ballot box?

Personality and Individual Differences

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Moving Beyond Measurement

Journal of Experimental Political Science

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Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe

British Journal of Political Science

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Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe

British Journal of Political Science

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Stylized Facts and Experimentation

Sociological Science

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Stylized Facts and Experimentation

Sociological Science

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The Presidential Election in Belarus, October 2015

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Uncovering Patterns Among Latent Variables: Human,Rights and De Facto Judicial Independence

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The presidential election in Belarus, October 2015

Electoral Studies

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The presidential election in Belarus, October 2015

Electoral Studies

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A spatial analysis of the impact of West German television on protest mobilization during the East German revolution

Journal of Peace Research

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Human Rights Texts: Converting Human Rights Primary Source Documents into Data

PLOS ONE

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Human Rights Texts: Converting Human Rights Primary Source Documents Into Data

Plos One

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Uncovering Patterns Among Latent Variables: Human Rights and De Facto Judicial Independence

Research & Politics

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Uncovering patterns among latent variables: human rights and de facto judicial independence

Research & Politics

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