Zoe Kava

It was great to work on this project with @b_schaffner @THershewe. We find that conservatives give better responses when asked about their “mental health” compared to their mood. Interestingly, the pattern is the opposite for liberals who give a poorer assessment of their mental health than of their mood.

we recently upgraded the CES shiny apps...most of the improvements are aesthetic, but one notable addition is the ability to see breakdowns of the vote for governor and senate in states with large enough samples! full set of apps are here: tischcollege.tufts.edu/research-facul…

Just dropped my second Substack post! Using broadcast news transcript data, @cantstopkevin and I look at how media consolidation is softening news coverage of Trump. We also have an app that we’ll launch soon where folks can track broadcast and digital news coverage of the president across different outlets. Stay tuned! medium.com/Zoe.kava/how-m…

HUGE NEWS: ProPublica is launching a new investigative reporting hub in California, our sixth regional unit. Read more: propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

Change of plans! I’m excited to be pursuing J.D.-Ph.D. study at @YaleLawSch and @PUPolitics. I’ll head to Princeton as an @NSF Graduate Research Fellow this fall and begin at YLS in 2027. Thanks again for the support.

Our paper on how Democrats and Republicans vote on state/local referendums, nonpartisan offices, and partisan elections is in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review. Feel free to contact us if you're interested in any aspect of this cast vote record data.

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I am a Pulitzer Prize winner.

I made a super simple website where you can see everywhere you can get to in under an hour on the NYC subway. The generated map is both a heat-map (changes color) and a cartogram (warps space). castrio.me/nyc

HUGE for the program.

I’m excited to be starting a PhD in political science at @Stanford as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the fall. A big thanks to my mentors at Yale and Wesleyan for their ongoing support.

earlier this month @TuftsUniversity senior Miles Kendrick and I fielded a survey with @YouGovAmerica to better understand what acts people think are political violence. there are some points of agreement & some clear differences of opinion. link to our @goodauth write-up below

A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publication he writes for is an AI content mill linked to OpenAI’s super PAC.

On how NOT to restore trust in #highered “A lack of public engagement & an air of cloistered privilege are a big part of why so many people now view universities with suspicion. Retreating further behind the gates will make a bad situation much worse.” nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opi…

Amazing correction here nytimes.com/2026/04/21/nyr…

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now. Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia. Read the full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s… @WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

I’m excited to have been awarded one of five National Science Foundation (@NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships in political science! Many thanks to those who helped me craft a strong application at @ISPSYale, @YaleTobinCenter, and @Columbia_PolSci. 🔗 urf.columbia.edu/news/forty-eig…

I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

there's a new comprehensive report out from @YouGovAmerica using CES data to plot trends in partisanship over the past two decades. i've got a piece up today in @goodauth summarizing some key findings. links to both in the reply!

Weather so nice even the dolphins came out to play!

Big redistricting news >> #NY11 will keep its current lines for this cycle. No redistricting in NY for 2026. SCOTUS stayed NY court ruling ordering a redraw A win for House Rs + Rep Nicole Malliotakis (R)

🚨 New paper out at @AJPS_Editor 🚨 Does the public holld meaningful attitudes? Using the case of abortion policy preferences, we provide strong evidence that policy prefrences can be coherent, stable over time, and causally explain vote choice. doi.org/10.1111/ajps.7…