Publications, Grants, & Awards
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
1. Lopez, Lucia. Signaling Effort through Policy Design: How Policy Features Affect Supportfor Welfare and Perceptions of Welfare Beneficiaries. PDF. Conditionally Accepted at Political Behavior.
2. Clifford, Scott, Lucia Lopez, and Lucas Lothamer. Forthcoming. Reassessing Support for Political Aggression and Violence in the United States. Public Opinion Quarterly. PDF.
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Media Coverage: Good Authority
3. Artabe, Eugenia, Alex Badas, and Lucia Lopez. Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Toward State Courts. Political Research Quarterly. PDF.
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.
1. Lopez, Lucia. Forthcoming. Book Review. “Living Off the Government? Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare” by Anne M. Whitesell. New York, New York University Press. 2024. 312 pp.
Working Papers & Ongoing Projects:
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Lopez, Lucia and Scott Clifford. People Prioritize and Punish Fraud Whether Committed by Program Beneficiaries or Providers.
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Lopez, Lucia. Correcting Misperceptions About Welfare Policy
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Lopez, Lucia. Public Support for Access to Justice.
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Lopez, Lucia. How Housing Voucher Policy Design Signals Effort and Shapes Public Opinion.
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Badas, Alex, Nathan Carrington, and Lucia Lopez. How Members of Congress Shape Emotional Responses to the Supreme Court.
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Lopez, Lucia. Race-Neutral Design?: Policy Design and the Racialization of Welfare Opinion.
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Artabe, Eugenia, and Linked Legitimacies? State and U.S. Supreme Court Legitimacy.
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Lopez, Lucia. Signaling Effort or Creating Barriers? Elite Rhetoric on Policy Design and Deservingness
Awards and Grants
External Grants
2026 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars ($2,000)
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)
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)
Internal Grants
2025 University of Houston Summer Fellowship for Research Excellence ($6,000)
2024 Department of Political Science Dissertation Grant ($2,000)
Awards
2026 American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Early-Career Award
2025 APSA EPOVB Section Early-Career Fellow
APSA Experimental Research Section Early-Career Fellow
2024 Comprehensive Exams with Distinction: American Politics & Public Policy