Research

Micatka, Nathan K. 2025. "Learning to Avoid: The Long-term Effects of Adolescent Welfare Participation on Voting Habits in Adulthood." Policy Studies Journal. Link to Article. 

Donovan, Todd, Caroline Tolbert, and Nathan K. Micatka. 2025. "Composition of the Electorate in Alaska's Top-four Nonpartisan Primary Compared to the Partisan Primary." Representation. Link to Article. 

Pacheco, Julianna, Nathan K. Micatka, and Caroline Tolbert. 2025. “Physician Voting Rates in the 2020 and 2022 Elections.” JAMA Health Forum 6(2): e245443. Link to Article. 

Micatka, Nathan K., Caroline Tolbert, and Robert Boatright. 2024. "All Candidate Primaries, Open Primaries, and Voter Turnout." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 5(3): 363-385. Link to Article.

Micatka, Nathan K., and Julianna Pacheco. 2024. "Socializing Policy Feedback: The Long-term Effects of Adolescent Program Participation on Adult Party Identification." Political Research Quarterly 77(4): 1350-1363. Link to Article. Replication Materials.

Dowling, Eveline, Caroline Tolbert, Nathan K. Micatka, and Todd Donovan. 2024. "Does Ranked Choice Voting Increase Voter Turnout and Mobilization?" Electoral Studies 90: 1-9. Link to Article.

Boatright, Robert G., Caroline J. Tolbert, and Nathan K. Micatka. 2024. "Public Opinion on Reforming US Primaries." Social Science Quarterly 105(3): 876-893. Link to Article.

Pacheco, Julianna, David Frisvold, and Nathan K. Micatka. "Evaluating the Political Effects of a Direct Assistance Program."

Boatright, Robert, Caroline Tolbert, and Nathan K. Micatka. Participation, Representation, and Consistency: The Problem with Primary Voters [Book Manuscript].

Micatka, Nathan K. "Help or Hindrance: The Moderating Effects of Adolescent State Welfare Policies on Young Adult Voting." Link to Paper. 

Micatka, Nathan K. “Patterns of Disparage: The Political Consequences of Systemic Negative Policy Experiences in Youth.” Link to Paper.

Micatka, Nathan K. “Contextual Policy, Self-interest, and Partisanship.”

Micatka, Nathan K. “Intersectional Feedback Effects.”

Pacheco, Julianna, and Nathan K. Micatka. “Public Stigma vs. Personal Stigma of Welfare Participation.

Clarke, Andrew J., Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Nathan K. Micatka. 2020. "How Have Members of Congress Reacted to President Trump's Trade Policy?" The Forum 17 (4): 631-645. Link to Article.