Research

Books

Taylor, J. Benjamin and Sean Richey. 2025. Trolling Democracy: How Trolls Distort Digital Discourse. New York, NY: Routledge.

Engstrom, Richard N., J. Benjamin Taylor, and Robert M. Howard. 2024. Georgia’s Constitution and Government, 10th edition. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Richey, Sean, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2020. Political Advocacy and American Politics: Why People Fight So Often About Politics. New York: Routledge.

Richey, Sean, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2018. Google and Democracy: Politics and the Power of the Internet. New York, NY: Routledge.

Taylor, J. Benjamin. 2017. Extreme Media and American Politics: In Defense of Extremity. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles

Taylor, J. Benjamin and Kerwin Swint. forthcoming. "The Impact of Election Rules and Context on Election Satisfaction in the United States." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.

Taylor, J. Benjamin, and Sean Richey. 2024. “AI Chatbots and Political Learning.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 0 (0): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2422929.

Taylor, J. Benjamin, Kerwin Swint, and Shauna Reilly. 2025. "How Runoff Elections and the Form of Local Administration Affect the Costs of Elections." State and Local Government Review 57(3): 205–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X241265301.

Houck, Aaron M., Aaron S. King, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2025. “The Effect of Experts on Attitude Change in Public-Facing Political Science: Scientific Communication on Term Limits in the United States.” Public Understanding of Science 34 (1): 19–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241246084.

Minooie, Milad, J. Benjamin Taylor, and Chris J. Vargo. 2023. “Agendamelding and COVID-19: The Dance of Horizontal and Vertical Media in a Pandemic.” Frontiers in Political Science 5 (May). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1021855.

Houck, Aaron M., Aaron S. King, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2021. “Updating with Others: Testing the Effect of Informational Social Influence on Political Attitudes.” Politics & Policy 49 (1): 87–125. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12394.

Richey, Sean, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2020. “Google Books Ngrams and Political Science: Two Validity Tests for a Novel Data Source.” PS: Political Science & Politics 53 (1): 72–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519001318.

Glas, Jeffrey M., and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2018. “The Silver Screen and Authoritarianism: How Popular Films Activate Latent Personality Dispositions and Affect American Political Attitudes.” American Politics Research 46 (2): 246–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X17744172.

Taylor, J. Benjamin. 2018. “The Educative Effects of Extreme Television Media.” American Politics Research 45 (1): 3–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X15600516.

Gershon, Sarah Allen, Adrian D. Pantoja, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2016. “God in the Barrio?: The Determinants of Religiosity and Civic Engagement among Latinos in the United States.” Politics and Religion 9 (1): 84–110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175504831600002X.

Glas, Jeffrey M., Sean Richey, J. Benjamin Taylor, and Junyan Zhu. 2016. “There Is Nothing Wrong with Kansas: The Effect of Race and Economics on Voting Correctly in U.S. Presidential Elections.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 46 (1): 158–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12256.

Taylor, J. Benjamin, Sarah Allen Gershon, and Adrian D. Pantoja. 2014. “Christian America? Understanding the Link between Churches, Attitudes, and ‘Being American’ among Latino Immigrants.” Politics and Religion 7 (2): 339–65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048314000042.

Reilly, Shauna, Sean Richey, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2012. “Using Google Search Data for State Politics Research An Empirical Validity Test Using Roll-Off Data.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 12 (2): 146–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532440012438889.

Richey, Sean, and J. Benjamin Taylor. 2012. “Who Advocates? Determinants of Political Advocacy in Presidential Election Years.” Political Communication 29 (4): 414–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2012.721869.

Book Chapters

Taylor, J. Benjamin, Sarah Allen Gershon, and Adrian D. Pantoja. 2018. “The Rise of Latino Evangelicals.” In The Evangelical Crackup?: The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition, edited by Paul Djupe and Ryan L. Claassen. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.