Research output

Publications

Full citations with links to PDFs and journal pages when available.

Books and Monographs

  • Ethan Busby, Chris Karpowitz, Cara Wong, Editors, (2025). Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Cara Wong (2010). Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities. Cambridge University Press.

  • Bruce E. Cain, Jack Citrin, Cara Wong (2000). Ethnic context, race relations, and California politics. Public Policy Institute of California.

Journal Articles

  • Brian Guay, Typer Marghetis, Cara Wong, David Landry (2026). Reply to Kardosh and Sklar: Prioritizing Domain-General Explanations of Misperception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Cara Wong, Jake Bowers, Daniel Rubenson, Mark Fredrickson, Ashlea Rundlett (2025). A Two Path Theory of Context Effects: Pseudoenvironments and Social Cohesion. British Journal of Political Science 55: e178.

  • Seyoung Jung, Younghyun Lee, Cara Wong (2025). What Can Dual Citizens Teach Us about Political Engagement?. Political Science Research and Methods: 1-23.

  • Brian Guay, Tyler Marghetis, David Landy, Cara Wong (2025). Quirks of Cognition Explain Why We Dramatically Overestimate the Size of Minority Groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(14).

  • Jair Moreira, Hyo-Won Shin, Matt Winters, Cara Wong (2024). Ballots Beyond Borders: Attitudes Towards External Voting in Colombia. Democratization 32: 466-494.

  • Adam Berinsky, Christopher Karpowitz, Zeyu Chris Peng, Jonathan Rodden, Cara Wong (2023). How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes. Journal of Politics 85: 372-388.

  • Matthew Hayes, Cara Wong, Mark Fredrickson, Chera LaForge, Andrew Bloeser (2023). Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout. Political Behavior.

  • Cara Wong, Jonathan Bonaguro (2020). The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6: 96-116.

  • Cara Wong, Jake Bowers, Daniel Rubenson, Mark M Fredrickson, Ashlea Rundlett (2020). Maps in People's Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context. Political Science Research and Methods 8(1): 160-168.

  • Jack Citrin, Morris Levy, Cara Wong (2017). Politics and the English Language in California: Bilingual Education at the Polls. California Journal of Politics and Policy 9: 1-14.

  • Cara Wong (2014). Would We Know 'Integration' If We Were To See It?: Measurement and The Imperative of Integration. Political Studies Review 12: 353-360.

  • Vincent L Hutchings, Cara Wong (2014). Racism, Group Position, and Attitudes about Immigration among Blacks and Whites. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 11(2): 419-442.

  • Cara Wong, Jake Bowers, Tarah Williams, Katherine Drake (2012). Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Misperceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context. Journal of Politics 74(4): 1153-1170.

  • Cara Wong (2007). Who fights: Substitution, commutation, and "green card troops". Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4: 167-188.

  • Cara Wong (2007). "Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States. Public Opinion Quarterly 71(3): 392-412.

  • Andrea L. Campbell, Cara Wong, Jack Citrin (2006). "Racial Threat", Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives. Political Behavior 28(2): 129-150.

  • Cara Wong, Grace E Cho (2005). Two-Headed Coins or Kandinskys: White Racial Identification. Political Psychology 26(5): 699-720.

  • Jack Citrin, David O. Sears, Christopher Muste, Cara Wong (2001). Multiculturalism in American public opinion. British Journal of Political Science 31(2): 247-275.

  • Jack Citrin, Donald P. Green, Christopher Muste, Cara Wong (1997). Public opinion toward immigration reform: The role of economic motivations. Journal of Politics 59(3): 858-881.

Book Chapters

  • Vincent Hutchings, Cara Wong, James Jackson, Ronald Brown (2011). Explaining Perceptions of Competitive Threat in a Multiracial Context. In Race, Reform and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy. Edited by Heather Gerken, Guy-Uriel Charles, Michael Kang. Cambridge University Press, pp. 52-74.

  • Cara Wong (2009). Who belongs? Assimilation, integration and multiculturalism in the United States. In Nations of Immigrants: Australia and the USA Compared. Edited by Gary Freeman, John Higley, James Jupp. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 160-175.

  • Cara Wong, Grace Cho (2006). Jus Meritum: Citizenship for Service. In Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. Edited by Taeku Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Ricardo Ramírez. University of Virginia Press, pp. 51-70.

  • Jack Citrin, Cara Wong, Brian Duff (2001). The meaning of American national identity. In Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction. Edited by Richard D. Ashmore, Lee Jussim. Oxford University Press.

Other Publications

  • Cara Wong (2019). How Generation Z, As the Multicultural Vanguard, Can Safeguard the Future of America. Pacific Standard 8.

  • James S Jackson, Vincent L Hutchings, Ronald Brown, Cara Wong (2009). National Politics Study, 2004 [Computer file]. ICPSR24483-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 23.

  • Cara Wong (2008). Participación de los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos de Amé rica. Panorama Social. Número,(8): 158-170.

  • Cara Wong (1998). "Group Closeness." A Pilot Study Report to the 1997 NES Pilot Study Committee and the American National Election Study Board of Overseers. University of Michigan, American National Election Study.