Melissa Sands

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Bollen, Paige, Joe Higton, and Melissa Sands. 2025. "Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception." Political Analysis, FirstView.
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Hankinson, Michael, Asya Magazinnik, and Melissa Sands. 2026. "The Policy Adjacent: How Affordable Housing Generates Policy Feedback Among Neighboring Residents." American Journal of Political Science, Early View.
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Winner of 2023 Best Paper Award, American Political Economy Section at APSA.
de Kadt, Daniel, Ada Johnson-Kanu, and Melissa Sands. 2024. "State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre." American Political Science Review 118(2), 563–583.
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Dietrich, Bryce, and Melissa Sands. 2023. "Seeing Racial Avoidance on New York City Streets." Nature: Human Behaviour 7, 1275–1281.
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Nathan, Noah, and Melissa Sands. 2023. "Context and Contact: Unifying the Study of Environmental Effects on Politics." Annual Review of Political Science 26.
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Wilson, Nicole, Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, and Melissa Sands. 2024. "Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter." Urban Affairs Review 60(10), 217–231.
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de Kadt, Daniel, and Melissa Sands. 2021. "Segregation Drives Racial Voting: New Evidence from South Africa." Political Behavior.
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Sands, Melissa, and Daniel de Kadt. 2020. "Local Exposure to Inequality Raises Support of People of Low Wealth for Taxing the Wealthy." Nature 586, 257–261.
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Nature News and Views Commentary by Tredoux and Dixon.
Enos, Ryan, Aaron Kaufman, and Melissa Sands. 2019. "Can Violent Protest Change Local Policy Support? Evidence from the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot." American Political Science Review 113(4), 1012–1028.
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Sands, Melissa. 2017. "Exposure to Inequality Affects Support for Redistribution." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(4), 663–668.
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Winner of 2017 Best Paper, Public Policy Section of APSA.
Winner of 2017 Best Paper Award, Political Psychology Section of APSA.
O'Brien, Daniel Tumminelli, Dietmar Offenhuber, Jesse Baldwin-Philippi, Melissa Sands, and Eric Gordon. 2016. "Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction: The Motivations for 311 Reporting." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 27(2), 320–335.
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Honorable Mention, 2018 Radin Award for Best Paper published in JPART.