Jason Douglas Todd CV

Journal article Political Behavior · March 1, 2025 Most of the money spent in U.S. congressional campaigns comes from donors residing outside the race’s electoral district. Scholars argue that legislators accepting out-of-district donations become “surrogate representatives” for outside donors. Yet researc ... Full text Cite

Do at-large elections reduce black representation? A new baseline for county legislatures

Journal article Electoral Studies · April 1, 2024 Much work has shown that, at all levels, Black citizens tend to be descriptively underrepresented in government. We take up the question of Black descriptive representation at the level of the county legislature, gathering data on the composition of North ... Full text Cite

Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam

Journal article American Political Science Review · May 8, 2023 A growing body of evidence attests that legislators are sometimes responsive to the policy preferences of citizens in single-party regimes, yet debate surrounds the mechanisms driving this relationship. We experimentally test two potential responsiveness m ... Full text Open Access Cite

Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature

Journal article Journal of Politics · July 1, 2022 This article builds on recent experimental work in the Vietnamese National Assembly to explore a critical qualification regarding responsiveness in authoritarian parliaments: delegates grow increasingly responsive as the number of peers possessing the same ... Full text Open Access Cite

Testing legislator responsiveness to citizens and firms in single-party regimes: A field experiment in the vietnamese national assembly

Journal article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2021 We investigate whether communicating constituents’ preferences to legislators increases the responsiveness of delegates to the Vietnamese National Assembly (VNA). Using a randomized control trial, we assign legislators to three groups: (1) those briefed on ... Full text Open Access Cite