Research
Publications
Driscoll, Amanda, Michael J. Nelson, Rachel Canino, and Matheus Zanetti. 2026. “Partisanized Participation in Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence from Mexico’s Extraordinary Judicial Elections.” Política y Gobierno 33(1).
Presentations
“Does Music Mobilize? An Experimental Study of Collective Action.” Global Public Opinion Workshop, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, November 2025.
“Dread and Defense.” International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Annual Conference, University of Brasília, Brazil, 2025.
Research Assistance
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, Florida State University, 2023–present.
- Build original cross-national news media corpora using Factiva, Nexis Uni, and direct publication archives, structured for quantitative text analysis, and assess outlet representation and political bias across the resulting samples.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, construct and manage original datasets, and carry out systematic literature reviews for faculty research projects.
- Design and document data-collection workflows for methods sections and replication materials, and develop procedural guides for incoming research assistants.
Research Skills
Quantitative methods and statistical analysis in R, construction of original cross-national media corpora, survey design in Qualtrics, and reproducible data-collection and documentation procedures. Additional software: Python and LaTeX.