Research

Publications

• Pepper D. Culpepper, Ryan Shandler, Jae-Hee Jung and Taeku Lee, “'The economy is rigged': Inequality narratives, fairness, and support for redistribution in six countries.” Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies (accepted version March 2024).
  Replication data here.
• Pepper D. Culpepper, Jae-Hee Jung and Taeku Lee, “Banklash: How media coverage of bank scandals moves mass preferences on financial regulation.” American Journal of Political Science, 2023.
  Replication data here. 
• Tom Nicholls and Pepper D. Culpepper, “Computational identification of media frames: strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.” Political Communication 1-2, 159-181, 2020. 
  

  Replication data here.

The research on which the following publications are based was not funded by the ERC and preceded the Banklash project. These articles are however an important part of the intellectual trajectory out of which Banklash developed.

• Pepper D. Culpepper and Taeku Lee, “The art of the shitty deal: media frames and public opinion on financial regulation in the United States” Socio-Economic Review, 20(2), 635-657, 2022. 
• Pepper D. Culpepper and Taeku Lee, “Media frames, partisan identification and the Australian banking scandal.” Australian Journal of Political Science, 56(1), 73-98, 2021.

Commentary and Media

• John Burn-Murdoch “Does the American dream foster inequality?” Financial Times, 8 December 2023 article about our research on inequality and media coverage [gated]. See Twitter/X thread on the article.  
• Pepper D. Culpepper, “FTX and Binance: How latest crypto scandals could influence public opinion on digital currency regulation.” The Conversation, 1 December 2023.