Michael L. Burnham

Publications

Perceived risk, political polarization, and the willingness to follow COVID-19 mitigation guidelines.
Social Science and Medicine
With Ray Block Jr, Kayla Kahn, Rachel Peng, Jeremy Seeman, and Christopher Seto.


Towards a Definition of Terrorist Ideology
Terrorism and Political Violence
With Gary Ackerman


Stance Detection: A Practical Guide to Identifying Political Beliefs in Text
Accepted at Political Science Research and Methods


What is Sentiment Meant to Mean to Language Models?
R&R at Research and Politics


Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour
With Michael Nelson


Semantic Scaling: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimates with Large Language Models
Working paper


Does Affect Affect the Effectiveness of Legislators?
Working paper


Political DEBATE: Efficient Zero-shot and Few-shot Classifiers for Political Text
Working paper