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Matthew Lacombe

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Books

Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force, 2021, Princeton University Press.

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Billionaires and Stealth Politics (with Benjamin Page and Jason Seawright), 2018, University of Chicago Press.

Articles and Chapters

“Power in a Union: Tracing the Creation of the Alliance Between LGBT Activists and Labor Unions in the U.S. and U.K.” (with Boris Heersink), 2025, Perspectives on Politics

“Guns and Democracy: Anti-System Attitudes, Protest, and Support for Violence Among Pandemic Gun-Buyers” (with James Druckman, Jon Green, and Matthew Simonson), 2024, Political Research Quarterly

“Why Do Issues ‘Whose Time Has Come’ Stick Around? Agenda Durability and the Case of Gun Control” (with Kristin Goss), 2024, Perspectives on Politics

“Social Disruption, Gun Buying, and Anti-System Beliefs” (with Matthew Simonson, Jon Green, and James Druckman), 2024, Perspectives on Politics.

“Green Distractions? When Did Environmental Politics Become a Matter of Personal Responsibility?” (with Dave Karpf and Michaela Flum), 2023, Interest Groups & Advocacy

“Violence and Voting in the U.S.: How School Shootings Impact Elections” (with Laura Garcia and Ana Arjona), 2022, American Political Science Review.

“Post-Loss Power Building: The Feedback Effects of Policy Losses on Group Identity and Collective Action,” 2022, Policy Studies Journal.

“Weaponized Group Identities and the Health of Democracy: How Groups Can be Good at Democracy, but Bad for It” in Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?, ed. Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

“Do Courts Change Politics? Heller and the Limits of Policy Feedback Effects” (with Kristin Goss), 2020, Emory Law Journal.

“Gun Ownership as a Social Identity: Estimating Behavioral and Attitudinal Relationships” (with Adam Howat and Jacob Rothschild), 2019, Social Science Quarterly.

“The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners: The NRA’s Cultivation, Dissemination, and Use of a Group Social Identity,” 2019, Journal of Politics.

“Racial and Gender Representation in the American Politics Canon: An Analysis of Core Graduate Syllabi” (with Sean Diament and Adam Howat), 2018, PS: Political Science and Politics.

“What is the ‘Canon’ in American Politics? Analyses of Core Graduate Syllabi” (with Sean Diament and Adam Howat), 2017, Journal of Political Science Education 13(3): 256-278.

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