Peer-Reviewed Articles:

1. Clifford, Scott, Lucia Lopez, and Lucas Lothamer. Forthcoming. Reassessing Support for Political Aggression and Violence in the United States. Public Opinion Quarterly. PDF.

• Media Coverage: Good Authority

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2. Artabe, Eugenia, Alex Badas, and Lucia Lopez. Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Toward State Courts. Political Research Quarterly. PDF.

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Revise and Resubmit:

1. Lopez, Lucia. Signaling Effort through Policy Design: How Policy Features Affect Support
for Welfare and Perceptions of Welfare Beneficiaries. PDF. Revise and resubmit at Political Behavior.

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Law Review and Other Scholarly Publications:

1. Lopez, Lucia. 2020. "Land of the Free, If You Can Afford It: Reforming Mayor's Courts in
Ohio." Cleveland State Law Review 68(3): 609–41. PDF.

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Working Papers & Other Projects:

1. Lopez, Lucia. Designing Deservingness: How Institutional Cues Shape Racialized Policy Perceptions.

2. Lopez, Lucia. Correcting Misperceptions of Welfare Policy: Evidence from Nine State Experiments.

3. Lopez, Lucia. Misperceptions about Housing Vouchers: Evidence from Four Cities.

4. Lopez, Lucia.  Administrative Burdens and Public Support for Access to Justice.

5. Clifford, Scott, and Lucia Lopez. Who Cheats? Public Perceptions of Fraud in Social Policy.

6. Clifford, Scott, Lucia Lopez, Lucas Lothamer, and Bradley Madsen. Understanding the Nature of Support for Political Violence. Book manuscript, preparing for submission to Cambridge Elements.

7. Artabe, Eugenia, and Lucia Lopez. Linked Legitimacies? State and U.S. Supreme Court Legitimacy.

8. Lopez, Lucia. Signaling Effort or Creating Barriers? Elite Rhetoric on Policy Design and Deservingness.

9. Badas, Alex and Lucia Lopez. Latino Racism-Ethnicism and Attitudes towards the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Awards and Grants

External Grants

2025                Russell Sage Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant ($15,000)

                        Housing Voucher (Section 8) Policy Design and Public Opinion

                        APSA Travel Grants (Political Communication: $600; Inequality and Redistribution: $500)

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2024                Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant ($14,941)

                        Welfare (TANF) Policy Design and Public Opinion                                                                

                        APSA Lee Ann Fujii Diversity Fellowship Travel Grant ($500)

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Internal Grants

2025                University of Houston Summer Fellowship for Research Excellence ($6,000)

2024                Department of Political Science Dissertation Grant ($2,000)

 

Awards

2025                APSA EPOVB Section Early-Career Fellow ($500)

                        APSA Experimental Research Section Early-Career Fellow ($500)

2024                Comprehensive Exams with Distinction: American Politics & Public Policy

2022                APSA Diversity Fellow ($2,000)