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Thomas L. Brunell is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and modeling and simulation. The focus of their scholarly work includes psychological and epidemiological aspects of COVID-19 as well as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

The main topics covered in Thomas L. Brunell's work are:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Among their recent publications are two notable papers. The first, published in 2020 in World Medical & Health Policy, is titled "How Partisanship Affected Public Reaction to Potential Treatments for COVID-19." The second paper, titled "Identifying the 'Downsian Ceiling': When Does Polarization Make Appealing to One's Base More Attractive than Moderating to the Center," was published in 2022 in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.

Thomas L. Brunell has collaborated with several coauthors in their work. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Samuel Merrill
  • Bernard Grofman
  • Sarah P. Maxwell

Their research has been published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
  • World Medical & Health Policy

Best Publications

  • Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L. Brunell

  • The European Court of Justice, state noncompliance, and the politics of override

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas Brunell

  • The European Court and the national courts: A statistical analysis of preliminary references, 1961-95

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America

    Thomas L. Brunell

  • The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Explaining Patterns of PAC Contributions to Candidates for Congress:

    Thomas L. Brunell

  • An Integrated Perspective on the Three Potential Sources of Partisan Bias: Malapportionment, Turnout Differences, and the Geographic Distribution of Party Vote Shares

    Bernard Grofman;William Koetzle;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Election administration and perceptions of fair elections

    Shaun Bowler;Thomas L. Brunell;Todd Donovan;Paul Gronke

  • A Propensity Score Reweighting Approach to Estimating the Partisan Effects of Full Turnout in American Presidential Elections

    Thomas L. Brunell;John DiNardo

  • A New Look at Split‐Ticket Outcomes for House and President: The Comparative Midpoints Model

    Bernard Grofman;William Koetzle;Michael P. McDonald;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Cycles in American national electoral politics, 1854-2006: Statistical evidence and an explanatory model

    Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman;Thomas L. Brunell

  • The Entrance of Women to the U.S. Congress: The Widow Effect

    Lisa Solowiej;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Rethinking redistricting: How drawing uncompetitive districts eliminates gerrymanders, enhances representation, and improves attitudes toward congress

    Thomas L. Brunell

  • Ideological representation and competitive congressional elections

    Thomas Lloyd Brunell;Justin Buchler

  • Has the Voting Rights Act Outlived Its Usefulness? In a Word, “No”

    David Lublin;Thomas L. Brunell;Bernard Grofman;Lisa Handley

  • Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Explaining Divided U.S. Senate Delegations, 1788-1996: A Realignment Approach

    Thomas L. Brunell;Bernard Grofman

  • Modeling the electoral dynamics of party polarization in two-party legislatures

    Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman;Thomas L Brunell

  • Why candidate divergence should be expected to be just as great (or even greater) in competitive seats as in non-competitive ones

    James Adams;Thomas L. Brunell;Bernard Grofman;Samuel Merrill

  • The Power of Ideologically Concentrated Minorities

    Samuel Merrill;Bernard Grofman;Thomas Brunell;William Koetzle

  • The European Court of Justice, State Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Override

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Distinguishing between the effects of swing ratio and bias on outcomes in the US Electoral College, 1900–1992

    Bernard Grofman;Thomas L. Brunell;Janet Campagna

  • The Potential Electoral Disadvantages of a Catch-All Party: Ideological Variance among Republicans and Democrats in the 50 US States

    Bernard Grofman;Samuel Merrill;Thomas L. Brunell;William Koetzle

  • Partisan Politics The Impact of Party in the Confirmation of Minority and Female Federal Court Nominees

    Lisa A. Solowiej;Wendy L. Martinek;Thomas L. Brunell

  • Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L Brunell

  • Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization

    Alec Stone Sweet;Thomas L. Brunell

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Grofman
Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine
Alec Stone Sweet
Alec Stone Sweet University of Hong Kong
Amihai Glazer
Amihai Glazer University of California, Irvine
Scott L. Feld
Scott L. Feld Purdue University West Lafayette
John DiNardo
John DiNardo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James Adams
James Adams University of California, Davis
Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Shaun Bowler
Shaun Bowler University of California, Riverside
Harold D. Clarke
Harold D. Clarke The University of Texas at Dallas
Todd Donovan
Todd Donovan Western Washington University

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