Publications, Working Papers, Software, and Code

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Malmberg, Alice (2026). "Investigating the Utility of LLM-Based `Silicon Samples' in Political Science Conjoint Experiments." Public Opinion Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfag069. 

• Replication materials here

Malmberg, Alice (2025). “Did Changes to the Voting Rights Act Cause Electoral Backsliding in the States?” Election Law Journal. https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2023.0052. 

• Replication materials available here.

Malmberg, Alice. “When Policy Gets Personal: Perceptions of Policy Extremism as Drivers of Geographic Sorting.”  Link to accepted manuscript.

• Accepted at State Politics & Policy Quarterly 

Brodeur,  Abel…Malmberg Alice, Scates, Daniel…et al (2026). “Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research.” Nature. 652, 151–156. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10251-x.   

Book Chapters

Malmberg, Alice. “Effective Subgroup Analysis of Rare Traits", Forthcoming in Understanding Experimental Political Science: Recruiting and Engaging Diverse Participants, Ed. Elizabeth Bennion and David Nickerson. Forthcoming 2027 (draft completed).

• Link to accepted chapter proposal 

Malmberg, Alice. “Interpretive Machine Learning Strategies to Validate Human-AI Alignment in Benchmarked Silicon Sampling Contexts", Forthcoming in Doing Valid Social Science with Large Language Models, Ed. Lisa Argyle, Ethan Busby, Joshua Gubler, Forthcoming 2027 (accepted chapter proposal). 

Working Papers Under Review 

Laufer, Jill and Malmberg, Alice.  “This Time is Different: the Effect of the March for Our Lives Mobilization Campaign on the 2018 Election.” 

• Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications preprint (under review): https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8929507/v1.

Invited Publications and Contributions to Public Scholarship

Malmberg, Alice and Scates, Daniel. "‘Flight to Safety: COVID-Induced Changes in the Intensity of Status Quo Preferences and Voting Behavior’: A Comment on Bisbee and Honig”, Institute for Replication Discussion Paper (I4R-22-80), Institute for Replication, June 2023.

Malmberg, Alice. “Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy”, RAISE the Vote Initiative,  American Political Science Association (APSA) Teaching and Learning Section, September 2020. 

Malmberg, Alice. “Equal Votes, Better Participation? Exploring how the National Popular Vote Compact Could Affect Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections”, RAISE the Vote Initiative, American Political Science Association (APSA) Teaching and Learning Section, July 2020. 

Software Packages

cjointplots: Beautiful Plotting for Conjoint AMCEs and Marginal Means. R Package (with Sharif Amlani)