Books
R for Political Science Research: An Introduction for Absolute Beginners. 2025. (Springer, Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis).
The Cost of Doing Politics: How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape Corporate Influence. 2022. (Cambridge University Press, Business and Public Policy Series).
The Cost of Doing Politics: How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape Corporate Influence. 2022. (Cambridge University Press, Business and Public Policy Series).
Articles
(Note: * indicates UMN graduate student, ** indicates UMN undergraduate)
Fazal, Tanisha M., Jane L. Sumner, Jessica Korona-Bailey, and Tracey Perez Koehlmoos. "U.S. Combat Medicine and Military Morale." Forthcoming at Armed Forces & Society (2025).
Fazal, Tanisha M., Jane L. Sumner, Jessica Korona-Bailey, and Tracey Perez Koehlmoos. "Military medicine and morale: Perceptions of inequities in triage impact national security." Forthcoming at Journal of Health and Social Sciences (2024).
Farris, Emily M., Ellen M. Key, and Jane L. Sumner. "Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds". The Journal of Politics, vo. 86, no. 4 (2024).
McCarty, Sean** and Jane L. Sumner. "The Political Consequences of Corporate Donations for Public Service Provision". Business and Politics, vol 26. no. 1 (2024).
Farris, Emily M., Ellen M. Key, and Jane L. Sumner. "'Wow, I didn’t know these options existed’: Understanding Tenure-Track Start-Up Packages''. PS: Political Science & Politics Vol 56, No 1 (2023), 75-81.
Holman, Mirya R., Emily M. Farris, and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "Local political institutions and first-mover policy responses to COVID-19." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 1, no. 4 (2020): 523-541.
Montal, Florencia*, Carly Potz-Nielsen*, and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "What states want: Estimating ideal points from international investment treaty content." Journal of Peace Research 57, no. 6 (2020): 679-691.
Dion, Michelle L., Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, and Jane L. Sumner. "Gender, seniority, and self-citation practices in political science." Scientometrics 125, no. 1 (2020): 1-28.
Lê, Adam*, Emily M. Farris, Jane L. Sumner, and Josephine M. Warmka**. "Extra, Extra, Reddit All About it: What Reddit can Teach us About Local Politics." In The Forum, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 87-115. De Gruyter, 2020.
Kerner, Andrew, Jane Sumner, and Brian Richter. "Offshore production's effect on Americans’ attitudes toward trade." Business and Politics 22, no. 3 (2020): 539-571.
Kerner, Andrew, and Jane L. Sumner. "Salvation by good works? Offshoring, corporate philanthropy, and public attitudes toward trade policy." Economics & Politics 32, no. 1 (2020): 1-27.
Gandhi, Jennifer, and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "Measuring the consolidation of power in nondemocracies." The Journal of Politics 82, no. 4 (2020): 1545-1558. [replication data]
Sumner, Jane Lawrence, Emily M. Farris, and Mirya R. Holman. "Crowdsourcing reliable local data." Political Analysis 28, no. 2 (2020): 244-262. [2Randomize] [replication data]
Key, Ellen M., and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "You research like a girl: Gendered research agendas and their implications." PS: Political Science & Politics 52, no. 4 (2019): 663-668. [replication data]
Feng, Yilang, Andrew Kerner, and Jane L. Sumner. "Quitting globalization: trade-related job losses, nationalism, and resistance to FDI in the United States." Political Science Research and Methods (2019): 1-20.[replication data]
Dion, Michelle, Jane Lawrence Sumner, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. "Gendered Citation Patterns Across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields". Political Analysis 26, no. 3 (2018): 312-327. [replication data]
Esarey, Justin and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "Marginal effects in interaction models: Determining and controlling the false positive rate". Comparative Political Studies 51, no. 9 (2018): 1144-1176. [R package: interactionTest]
Sumner, Jane Lawrence. "The GBAT: A Web-Based Tool for Estimating Gender Balance in Syllabi and Bibliographies".
PS: Political Science and Politics 51, no. 2 (2018): 396-400. [GBAT] [code]
PS: Political Science and Politics 51, no. 2 (2018): 396-400. [GBAT] [code]
Owens, Michael Leo and Jane Lawrence Sumner. "Regional or Parochial? Support for Cross-Community Sharing within City-Regions". Journal of Urban Affairs 40, no. 1 (2018): 98-116. [technical appendix] [dynamic predicted probabilities]
Kerner, Andrew and Jane Lawrence. "What's the Risk? Bilateral Investment Treaties, Political Risk, and Fixed Capital Accumulation." British Journal of Political Science 44, no. 1 (2014): 107-21. [replication data]
Book Chapters
Özçelik, Ezgi and Jane L. Sumner, 'Research Design and Personal Identity', in Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (eds), Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Vol 1) (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Oct. 2023).
Book Project
"The Politics of Small Business Ownership" Co-authored with Andrew Kerner.
Selected Working Papers
(Note: * indicates UMN graduate student, ** indicates UMN undergraduate)
"Fear of Chance and Opposition to Foreign Direct Investment in the US." Co-authored with Ezgi Özçelik*. Under review.
"Gender Roles and Perception of Threat Due to Globalization". Co-authored with Andrew Kerner. Under review.
"When Do We Give Companies a Pass to Destroy the Environment?" Co-authored with Emily Lucinda Kurtz*.
"State Attachment Theory". Co-authored with Adam J. Lê*, Caitlyn N. Barrett**,* and Christopher M. Federico.