Book
Barnes, Jeb and Nicholas Weller. 2014. Finding Pathways: Mixed-method research for studying causal mechanisms. Cambridge University Press. Replication materials.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Bishin, Benjamin and Nicholas Weller. Forthcoming. "The Substantive Effects of Descriptive Representation: Gay and Lesbian Members of Congress Are More Supportive of Gay Rights." PS: Political Science and Politics.
Weller, Nicholas, & Jamieson, Thomas. 2023. Correcting Myopia: Effect of Information Provision on Support for Preparedness Policy. Political Research Quarterly, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129231221486
Authment, Jacob, Michelangelo Landgrave, and Nicholas Weller. 2023. "Do Public Housing Agencies Discriminate Against Hispanics: A Large-Scale Replication Study to Assess Discrimination." Journal of Behavioral Public Administration.
Desposato, Scott, Levinson, Todd, and Nicholas Weller. 2021. “The impact of group collaboration and performance on interpersonal trust and cooperation.” Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis.
Landgrave, Michelangelo and Nicholas Weller. 2021. “Do Name-based Treatments Violate Information Equivalence? Evidence from a Correspondence Audit Experiment.” Political Analysis.
Landgrave, Michelangelo and Nicholas Weller. 2020. "Do More Professionalized Legislatures Discriminate Less? The Role of Staffers in Constituency Service." American Politics Research.
Jamieson, Thomas and Nicholas Weller. 2020. "Effects of Certain and Uncertain Incentives on Effort and Knowledge Accuracy." Journal of Experimental Political Science.
McCubbins, Mathew D. and Nicholas Weller. 2019. "Coordination, Communication and Information: How Network Structure and Knowledge Affect Group Behavior." Journal of Experimental Political Science.
Weller, Nicholas and Jane Junn. 2018. “Racial Identity and Voting: Conceptualizing White Identity in Spatial Terms.” Perspectives on Politics.
Barnes, Jeb and Nicholas Weller. 2017. “Case Studies and Analytic Transparency in Causal-Oriented Mixed-Methods Research." PS: Political Science & Politics. October.
Weller, Nicholas and Jeb Barnes. 2016. “Pathway Analysis and the Search for Causal Mechanisms.” Sociological Methods and Research. Vol. 45, Issue 3, pp. 424-457.
Rogers, Melissa and Nicholas Weller. 2014. “Income Taxation and the Validity of State Capacity Indicators.” Journal of Public Policy. Vol. 34, Issue 1. Pp. 1-24
Enemark, Daniel, Mathew D. McCubbins and Nicholas Weller. 2014. “Knowledge and Networks: An experimental test of how network knowledge affects coordination.” Social Networks. Volume 36. January, pages 122–133
Tsai, Jason Hanh Thanh, Nicholas Weller and Milind Tambe. 2013. “Game-Theoretic Target Selection in Contagion-based Domains.” The Computer Journal. Published online September 20, 2013
Seljan, Ellen and Nicholas Weller. 2011. “Diffusion in Direct Democracy: The Effect of Political Information on Proposals for Tax and Expenditure Limits in the U.S. States.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Vol. 11, No. 3. pp. 348-368.
Boudreau, Cheryl, Mathew D. McCubbins, Daniel Rodriguez and Nicholas Weller. 2010. “Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How Political and Legal Institutions Can Facilitate Consensus,” 2010. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Vol. 7, Issue 10. p. 868-885.
Weller, Nicholas. 2009. “Trading Policy: Constituents and Party in U.S. Congressional Trade Voting.” Public Choice. Volume 141, Issue 1, Pages 87-101
McCubbins, Mathew D., Ramamohan Paturi and Nicholas Weller. 2009. “Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination.” American Politics Research. Vol. 37, No. 5. Page 899-920.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Posada, Julian, Nicholas Weller, and Wendy Wong. 2021. “We Haven’t Gone Paperless Yet: Why the Printing Press Can Help Us Understand Data and AI.” Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society. May.
McCubbins, Mathew D., Mark Turner and Nicholas Weller. 2013. “Testing the Foundations of Quantal Response Equilibrium.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 144-153
Tsai, Jason, Nicholas Weller, and Milind Tambe. 2012. “Analysis of Heuristic Techniques for Controlling Contagion” Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion. pp. 69-75
McCubbins, Mathew D. and Nicholas Weller. 2012. “Effects of Network Structure on Costly Coordination.” Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Technical Report FS-12-08, Social Networks and Social Contagion. pp. 37-43
McCubbins, Mathew D., Mark Turner and Nicholas Weller. 2012. “The Theory of Minds Within the Theory of Games.” Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
McCubbins, Mathew D., Mark Turner and Nicholas Weller. 2012. “The Mythology of Game Theory.” 2012. Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Eds. Shanchieh Jay Yang, Ariel Greenberg and Mica Endsley.
McCubbins, Mathew D., Mark Turner, and Nicholas Weller. 2012. “The Challenge of Flexible Intelligence for Models of Human Behavior.” Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium on Game Theory for Security, Sustainability and Health. AAI Technical Report.
Enemark, Daniel, Mathew D. McCubbins, Ramamohan Paturi, and Nicholas Weller. 2011. “Does more connectivity help groups to solve social problems?” 2011. Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Electronic Commerce 2011. San Jose, CA.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Barnes, Jeb and Nicholas Weller. "Mixed Methods and Casual Mechanisms: Re-Examining a Divided Literature from the Perspective of Methodological Pluralism." in The Oxford Handbook of Engaged Pluralism in Political Science. eds. Janet Box-Steffensmeister, Dino Christensen, and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman.
Barnes, Jeb and Nicholas Weller. 2022. "Causal Pathway Analysis and Matching: A Practical Guide." Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations. eds. R. Joseph Huddleston, Patrick James, and Thomas Jamieson. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Law Review Publications
Rodriguez, Daniel, Mathew D. McCubbins and Nicholas Weller. 2013. “Cheap, Easy or Connected: The Conditions for Creating Group Coordination". Southern California Law Review. Volume 86, Issue 3.