Publications

• Bussing, A., Furnas, Z., Ladam, C., McCrain, J., Miller, D. and Porter, R. (2022). The Junior Americanist Workshop Series (JAWS). PS: Political Science and Politics. Published, 01/01/2022.
• Grossmann, Matt, Jordan, Marty P. & McCrain, Joshua (2021). The Correlates of State Policy and the Structure of State Panel Data. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Published, 08/02/2021.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/state-poli...
• Martin, Gregory & McCrain, Joshua (2019). The FCC’s hands-off approach to media consolidation means that local news increasingly looks more like Fox News. LSE American Politics and Policy. Published, 10/18/2019.
  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/10/18/the-f...
• McCrain, Joshua (2019). Memo for the Select Committee on Modernization. Select Committee on Modernization. Published, 08/01/2019.
• Martin, Gregory & McCrain, Joshua (2019). Local News and National Politics. American Political Science Review. Published, 02/19/2019.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-p...
• Montagnes, Pablo B., Peskowitz, Zachary & McCrain, Joshua (2019). Bounding Partisan Approval Rates Under Endogenous Partisanship: Why Partisan Presidential Approval May be Higher than it Seems. Journal of Politics. Published, 01/01/2019.
  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/...
• McCrain, Joshua (2018). Revolving Door Lobbyists and the Value of Congressional Staff Connections. Journal of Politics. Published, 10/01/2018.
  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/6989...
• McCrain, Joshua & Martin, Gregory (2018). Yes, Sinclair Broadcast Group does cut local news, increase national news and tilt its stations rightward. The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. Published, 04/10/2018.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp...
• McCrain, Joshua (2018). Convincing evidence that congressional staff do, in fact, matter . LegBranch.com. Published, 01/23/2018.
  http://www.legbranch.com/theblog/2018/1/16/convinc...
• McCrain, Joshua (2017). Cashing In On Connections: For Congressional Staff-Turned-Lobbyists, Who You Know Matters. LegBranch.com. Published, 08/21/2017.
  http://www.legbranch.com/theblog/2017/8/21/cashing...
• McCrain, Joshua (2017). What does Donald Trump need for a successful presidency? Bureaucrats. The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage Blog. Published, 01/27/2017.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp...

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

• Cataloging State Legislation. PI: James Curry, David Carter, Joshua McCrain. University of Utah Faculty Small Grants Program, 01/10/2022 - present. Total project budget to date: $6,000.00
• Support for Police Reforms. PI: Joshua McCrain. University of Utah Faculty Small Grant Program, 01/10/2022 - present. Total project budget to date: $5,320.00
• Representation, Responsiveness, and COVID-19. PI: William Bianco, Rachel Blum, and Joshua McCrain. Russell Sage Foundation, 01/01/2022 - present. Total project budget to date: $138,832.00

Software Titles

• nicknameR: Easy name merging of common nicknames. github: https://github.com/jmccrain/nicknameR. Release Date: 04/01/2021. Inventors: McCrain, Joshua.
• cspp: A Tool for the Correlates of State Policy Project Data. CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cspp/index.html. Release Date: 10/01/2020. Inventors: Caleb Lucas and Joshua McCrain.

Languages

• Italian, functional.