Publications

Dynes, Adam M., Hans J.G. Hassell, and Matthew R. Miles. Forthcoming. Personality Traits and Approaches to Political Representation and Responsiveness: An Experiment in Local Government." Political Behavior.
Barber, Michael and Adam M. Dynes. 2023. "City-State Ideological Incongruence and Municipal Preemption." American Journal of Political Science 67(1):119-136.
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Dynes, Adam M., Michael T. Hartney, and Sam D. Hayes. 2021. "Off-Cycle and Off-Center: Election Timing and Representation in Municipal Government." American Political Science Review 115(3):1097-1103.
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Dynes, Adam M., Hans J.G. Hassell, and Matthew R. Miles. 2021. “Political Ambition and Constituency Service: Does Ambition Influence How Local Officials Respond to Electoral and Non-Electoral Service Requests from Constituents?” American Politics Review 49(6):646-654..
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Dynes, Adam M., and Lucy Martin. 2021. "Revenue Source and Electoral Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Local U.S. Policymakers." Political Behavior 43:1113-1136.
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Dynes, Adam M., Hans J. G. Hassell, Matthew R. Miles, and Jessica R. Preece. 2021. "Personality and Gendered Selection Processes in the Political Pipeline." Politics & Gender 17(1): 53-73.
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Butler, Daniel M., and Adam M. Dynes. 2020. " Do Republican and Democratic Legislators have Polarized Views of their District’s Demographics?" Research and Politics 7(3): 1-9.
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Dynes, Adam M. 2020. "Which Citizens Do Elected Officials Target with Distributive Spending? A Survey Experiment on US Municipal Officials." American Politics Research 48(5): 579-595.
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Dynes, Adam M., and John B. Holbein. 2020. "Noisy Retrospection: The Effect of Party Control on Policy Outcomes." American Political Science Review 114(1): 237-257.
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Dynes, Adam M., Hans J. G. Hassell, and Matthew R. Miles. 2019. "The Personality of the Politically Ambitious." Political Behavior 41(2): 309-336.
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Dynes, Adam M. and Andrew Reeves. 2018. "Who Benefits from the Party Organization? Evidence from Republican House Members' Attendance at Caucus Meetings." Legislative Studies Quarterly 43(2): 207-243.
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Butler, Daniel M., Craig Volden, Adam M. Dynes, and Boris Shor. 2017. "Ideology, Learning, and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence." American Journal of Political Science 61(1): 37–49.
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Butler, Daniel M., and Adam M. Dynes. 2016. "How Politicians Discount the Opinions of Constituents with Whom They Disagree." American Journal of Political Science 60(4): 975–89.
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Dynes, Adam M., and Gregory A. Huber. 2015. "Partisanship and the Allocation of Federal Spending: Do Same-Party Legislators or Voters Benefit from Shared Party Affiliation with the President and House Majority?" American Political Science Review 109(01): 172-86.
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Replication: ReadMe | Analysis Only | Original Source Data & Analysis

Working Papers

"Procedural Obfuscation and Electoral Accountability in Local Politics." Dynes, Adam M.
"Term Limited Legislators Invest Less in Learning their District." Butler, Daniel M., Adam M. Dynes, and Devin Ton.
"Personality Traits and Approaches to Political Representation and Responsiveness: An Experiment in Local Government." Dynes, Adam M., Hans J. G. Hassell, and Matthew R. Miles.
"How Local Officials Respond to Expressions of Public Opinion." Dynes, Adam M., Chris F. Karpowitz, and J. Quin Monson.
"Descriptive Representation among Elected and Appointed Officials in US Municipalities." Butler, Daniel M., Adam M. Dynes, and Michelle Torres
"Partisan Ballots Lead Elected Officials to Act in More Partisan Ways." Butler, Daniel M., Adam M. Dynes, and Michelle Torres
"Delay, Delegation, and Obfuscation: The Politics of ‘No-Win’ Situations." Dynes, Adam M. and Justin Fox.
"The Party Decides the Rules: How Different Vote Counting Rules Change the Outcome of the 2016 Republican Primary." Dynes, Adam M. and Thomas J. Wood.
"The Effect of Caucus Meeting Attendance on Roll Call Voting Among Republican House Members." Donnelly, Christopher P. and Adam M. Dynes.

American Municipal Official Survey

I am the co-principal investigator (along with Daniel Butler) of the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017 American Municipal Officials Survey (AMOS) -- the largest surveys of elected municipal officials conducted by political scientists (N > 4,000) and the first to employ survey experiments to this novel population. We plan to continue conducting the AMOS every two years.


Laboratories of Democracy

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Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy

I am a scholar at The Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy (CSED) at Brigham Young University, a nonpartisan academic research center seeking to increase knowledge about the practice of American democracy. CSED is committed to the production and dissemination of research that meets high academic standards, is useful to policy makers, and informs citizens. We also operate a research lab to help a select group undergraduate BYU students experience the research process.