Research — L. J. Anastasopoulos

Github: https://github.com/ljanastas/.

CV: Download here.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I9yQIZ0AAAAJ&hl=en.

Publications and works in progress

BOOKS

Inventing the Leviathan: How Technology Created the Administrative State.
Practical Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Social Research (with Jie (Jason) Lian).

WORKING PAPERS

“Electrifying Extremism? Rural Electrification and Democratic Backsliding in the Early 20th Century United States.”
- Scheduled talks:
  - APSA 2024 (Philadelphia, PA)
  - Historical Political Economy Conference (Los Angeles, CA), 2024.
  - International Political Economy Society Conference, 2024 (Florence, Italy)
Covariate Selection for Robust Causal Inference.
“A General Framework for Measuring Delegation and Discretion in Democratic Political Institutions with Artificial Intelligence.”
“Using audit experiments to understand cognitive biases in large language models (LLMs)”. (w/ Greg Porembescu, Jie (Jason) Lian and Andy Whitford.
- Scheduled Talks:
  - California Institute of Technology, “Navigating the New Frontier: The Political and Economic Implications of AI”
  - University of Pennsylvania, APSA 2024: Large-Language Models in Social Science Pre-Conference .
“Greening Parliaments: The Political Economy of Central Bank Climate Mandates.”
“Time and Causal Inference in Public Administration Research: A Unified Framework” (w/ Inkyu Kang)
“FinTech and the Political Development of Central Banks.”
“Can the Fed make the trains run on time? Bureaucratic capacity and local government bailouts.”

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

2024. Anastasopoulos, L. Jason, Dhruvil Badani, Shiry Ginosar, and Jake Ryland Williams. "Visible home style." Electoral Studies 90 (2024): 102794.
2023. Sonja R. West, Jonathan Peters, and L. Jason Anastasopoulos, ``All the News That's Fit to Be Identified: Facilitating Access to High Quality News Through Internet Platforms'', Colorado Technology Law Journal. Volume 21, Issue 1.
2022. Porumbescu, Gregory, Donald Moynihan, L. Jason Anastasopoulos, and Asmus Leth Olsen. ``When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the COVID‐19 pandemic.'' Governance.
2021. Anastasopoulos, L. Jason, George J. Borjas, Gavin G. Cook, and Michael Lachanski. "Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from the Mariel Supply Shock." Journal of Human Capital 15, no. 1 (2021): 1-33.
2020. Andrew B. Whitford, Jeff Yates, Adam Burchfield, L. Jason Anastasopoulos and Derrick Anderson. ``The Adoption of Robotics by Government Agencies: Evidence from Crime Labs.'' Public Administration Review.
2020. Jason Anastasopoulos and Anthony Bertelli. ``Understanding Delegation Through Machine Learning: A Method and Application to the European Union.'' American Political Science Review.
2020. L. Jason Anastasopoulos, Tima Moldogaziev and Tyler Scott. ``Organizational Context and Budget Orientations: A Computational Text Analysis.'' International Public Management Journal.
2020. Mozer, Reagan, Luke Miratrix, Aaron Russell Kaufman, and L. Jason Anastasopoulos. "Matching with text data: An experimental evaluation of methods for matching documents and of measuring match quality." Political Analysis. 28, no. 4 (2020): 445-468.
2019. Di Ma, Marcus Liu, Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, L. Jason Anastasopoulos, and Jungseock Joo. “Understanding the Political Ideology of Legislators from Social Media Photographs”. ICWSM 2020: 14th International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Web and Social Media.
2019. L. Jason Anastasopoulos and Jake Williams. ``A scalable machine learning approach for measuring violent and peaceful forms of political protest participation with social media data.'' PLoS ONE 14(3): e0212834. \\ \url{https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212834}.
2019. L. Jason Anastasopoulos and Andy Whitford. ``Machine Learning for Public Administration Research,with Application to Organizational Reputation.'' Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
2017. L. Jason Anastasopoulos. ``Migration, Immigration, and the Political Geography of American Cities.'' American Politics Research.
2016. L. Jason Anastasopoulos. ``Estimating the gender penalty in House of Representative elections using a regression discontinuity design.'' Electoral Studies 43: Pages 150-157.
2013. Phil Tetlock, Gregory Mitchell and L. Jason Anastasopoulos. ``Detecting and Punishing Unconscious Bias''. \textit{Journal of Legal Studies} 42(1): 83-110.