Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Niebler, Sarah and Lanethea Mathews-Schultz . 2021. “What Do Pennsylvania Voters Think about Women’s Representation? What We Learned from 2016 and 2018 Exit Polls.” Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy 21(1): 7-29.
• Niebler, Sarah. 2020. “Vote-by-Mail: COVID-19 and the 2020 Presidential Primaries.” Society 57: 547-553.
• Niebler, Sarah, Kathleen Marchetti, and Thomas Kozdron. 2020. “Gubernatorial Elections and Coattail Effects of Women Candidates.” Journal of Woman, Politics, and Policy 41(3): 334-350.
• Niebler, Sarah, Jacob Neiheisel, and Matthew Holleque. 2018. “By ground or by air? Voter mobilization during the United States’ 2008 presidential campaign.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 28(1): 78-104.
• Niebler, Sarah and Carly Urban. 2017. “Does Negative Advertising Affect Giving Behavior? Evidence from Campaign Contributions.” Journal of Public Economics 146: 15-26.
• Neiheisel, Jacob and Sarah Niebler. 2015. “On the Limits of Persuasion: Campaign Ads and the Structure of Voters’ Interpersonal Discussion Networks.” Political Communication 32(3): 434-452.
• Urban, Carly and Sarah Niebler. 2014. “Dollars on the Sidewalk: Should U.S. Presidential Candidates Advertise in Uncontested States?” American Journal of Political Science 58(2): 322-336.
• Neiheisel, Jacob and Sarah Niebler. 2013. “The Use of Party Brand Labels in Congressional Election Campaigns, 1998-2008.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 38(3): 377-403.
• Wichowsky, Amber and Sarah Niebler. 2010. “Narrow Victories and Hard Games: Revisiting the Primary Divisiveness Hypothesis.” American Politics Research 38(6): 1052-1071.

Working Papers:

• Local Economic Conditions, Voter Turnout, and Vote Choice: How and When Do House Prices Matter?” (with Carly Urban)
• Job Approval and Economic Evaluations: Survey Experiment Data from Wisconsin
• Ideology of the Left: Liberal versus Progressive and Americans’ Self-Identification

Other Research:

Sarah has worked on a variety of projects related to campaigns and elections. Throughout the 2012 campaign season, Sarah consulted on the Marquette University Law School Poll. During the 2008 campaign, she was an assistant director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project. The project analyzed television advertising in presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections with a particular focus on Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

During the 2008 campaign season, findings were released in a series of real-time reports and received press coverage in outlets such as The New York Times. During the fall of 2006, Sarah served as a consultant to the “Vote No on One” campaign, which fought against the Tennessee Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

During the presidential race in 2004, she was the assistant director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, where she wrote reports about public opinion in Pennsylvania. She also aided in a real-time analysis of the first debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry and helped coordinate an exit poll of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania voters.

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