Thomas Pepinsky

About

Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His academic interests include comparative politics and political methodology, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. Pepinsky studies the interaction of political and economic systems globally, with recent research exploring how social categories interact with these systems and how explanations are constructed in the social sciences. His current research involves the politics and political economy of democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia and Europe, as well as the evolution of ethnicity and social categories in the Malay world.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Security
• Geography
• Computer Science
• Anthropology
• Linguistics
• Economic growth
• Economics
• Economic geography

Selected publications

• Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

  PLoS ONE · 2021-04-07 · 618 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: To study the U.S. public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20-23, 2020). METHOD: We designed and fielded an original representative survey of 3,000 American adults between March 20-23, 2020 to collect data on a battery of 38 health-related behaviors, government policy preferences on COVID-19 response and worries about the pandemic. We test for partisan differences COVID-19 related policy attitud…

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• Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Attitudes in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020-01-01 · 250 citations

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• Urbanization, Ethnic Diversity, and Language Shift in Indonesia

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 59 citations

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• Urbanization, ethnic diversity, and language shift in Indonesia

  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2022 · 17 citations

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  Cross-nationally, urbanization is associated with the decline of minority languages and a shift towards national and official languages. But the processes that link urbanization with language shift have not been adequately documented. In this paper we consider the relationship between cities and language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective, focusing our attention on the issue of language use and language shift in Indonesia – a large, ethnically and linguistically diverse, rapidly urbanising…

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• The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary

  Perspectives on Politics · 2024-04-03 · 15 citations

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  The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was a watershed moment in European politics. The invasion prompted a massive influx of refugees into Central Europe, a region in which immigration has proven highly contentious and politically salient in recent decades. We study public opinion toward refugees in Hungary, a highly exclusionary political environment in which anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments are commonly invoked by the ruling government. Combining historical public opinion data from the…

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Frequent coauthors

• Hayeon Lee

  New York University Press

  58 shared

• Dimitar D. Gueorguiev

  Syracuse University

  57 shared

• Stephan Haggard

  University of California, San Diego

  27 shared

• Saiful Mujani

  Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta

  24 shared

• Sara Wallace Goodman

  University of California, Irvine

  23 shared

• Krisztina Szabó

  Centre for Ecological Research

  18 shared

• Ádám Reiff

  Centre for Economic and Regional Studies

  18 shared

• Shana Kushner Gadarian

  Syracuse University

  15 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Yale University

  2007

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