Mia Costa
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Government
Area of Expertise
American politics,
political behavior,
representation,
public opinion,
gender,
experiments,
survey research,
political participation
Education
Ph. D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. State University of New York, New Paltz
Taught Courses
Publications
Mia Costa. 2021. "Citizen Evaluations of Legislator-Constituent Communication."British Journal of Political Science.
Mia Costa. 2021. "He Said, She Said: The Gender Double Bind in Legislator-Constituent Communication." Politics & Gender
Costa et al. 2019. "Family Ties? The Impact of Fathering Daughters on Congressional Behavior." 2019. American Politics Research.
Mia Costa. 2021. "Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want From Political Representation."
American Journal of Political Science 65(2): 342-358.
Mia Costa, Bruce A. Desmarais, John A. Hird. 2018. "Public Comments' Influence on Science Use in U.S.
Rulemaking: The Case of EPAs National Emission Standards." American Review of Public
Administration.
Mia Costa. 2017. "How Responsive are Political Elites? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Public
Officials." Journal of Experimental Political Science 4(3): 241-254.
Mia Costa, Brian Schaffner, and Alicia Prevost. 2018. "Walking the Walk? The Effect of Pledging to
Vote on Youth Turnout." PLoS ONE 13(5): e0197066.
Mia Costa and Isabel Wallace.∗ 2021. "More Women Candidates: The Effects of Increased Women;s
Presence on Political Ambition, Efficacy, and Vote Choice." American Politics Research 49(4): 368-
380.
Mia Costa and Brian Schaffner. 2018. "How Gender Conditions the way Citizens Evaluate and Engage with their Representatives." Political Research Quarterly 71(1): 46-58,
Mia Costa, Kaylee Johnson, and Brian Schaffner. 2018. "Rethinking Representation from a Communal Perspective." Political Behavior 40(2): 301-320
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