Political Science Research and Methods
Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of the European Political Science Association, edited by John Griffin, published by Cambridge University Press
- 🏦When do people report their true views on the economy? ➡️ @janzilinsky.bsky.social & J.Bisbee find that less-politicized survey questions better capture actual public welfare—beyond partisan bias www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💵How do governments shape income inequality—via rules or discretion? ➡️Analyzing U.S. states (1986–2020), G.A.Krause & M.L.Lofton find little effect from tax/expenditure limits or party control—except when Republicans govern under such limits www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🎯 How well do surveys capture voters' real views? ➡️Using a MultiTrait MultiError model, @kbackst.bsky.social A.Cernat R.Sirén @petersoderlund.bsky.social examine how acquiescence, method effects, and random error affect the measurement of voters' issue preferences www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 📊Structural equation modeling is a common tool in political science, but model specification is tricky. ➡️B. Q. Zheng & P.M. Bentler propose a stepwise bootstrapped LM test to better detect missing parameters—improving fit, especially in small samples www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🗳️When is the far right punished for extremism? ➡️ @laiabalcells.bsky.social @sergisme.bsky.social & E. vanderWilden show that normalization lowers the cost of extreme positions—moderates see them as less genuine www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🪙 Standard inequality metrics like income concentration fall short in capturing how people perceive inequality. ➡️ Using U.S. survey data, B. J. Newman finds that indicators capturing the co-presence of "haves" & "have-nots" perform better www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💸Does the World Bank give easier loan terms to allies of powerful member states? ➡️Using Latent Semantic Scaling, J. Winter @bvcormier.bsky.social @tkramarz.bsky.social @markya.bsky.social find little evidence of favoritism toward powerful allies www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🧩Doing qualitative research and want to be more convincing? ➡️T. Fairfield & A. Charman illustrate how Bayesian reasoning can be a tool for conducting a qualitative analog of replication analysis www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💡In the U.S., politicians often overestimate how conservative public opinion is, especially on abortion. ➡️Using post-Dobbs survey data, G. Fornaro finds underestimation of support for abortion access, driven mainly by “pro-life” identifiers www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🗺️Can a legislator’s birthplace shape their vote? ➡C. Emrich @hillarystyle.bsky.social & RJ. V. Wielen find that legislators’ roots leave a lasting political imprint. Those born near each other vote similarly, even beyond party or district demands www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🚔 What role does inter-group contact play in discriminatory policing? ➡️ Using a formal model, @ryanhubert.bsky.social & @anthlittle.bsky.social show how positive contact with overpoliced groups can reduce bias—but only if it is sustained over time www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💰Do ideologically extreme candidates raise more money than moderates? ➡️ Using an RDD, M. Meisels finds corporate PACs penalize extremists, while individual donors treat them much like moderates www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- ⌨️Do you need a sample from the Global South—fast and on a budget? ➡️ L. R. Rosenzweig P. Bergquist K. H. Pham @francescorampazzo.com @mattomildenberger.bsky.social: survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📊The Cox model underpins complex duration models like competing risks, repeated events, and multistate models. ➡️B. T. Jones & S. K. Metzger study three assumptions regarding model specification decisions and offer best practices www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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- 🔍What are the effects of a challenger entry on policymaking and voter welfare? ➡️Using a two-period electoral model, J. Morrier finds that higher entry costs can sometimes lead to better policy & voter welfare www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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- 🌪️How do climate regulations shape public support for climate action? ➡️ @armenon.bsky.social K.Nissen & I.Osgood find dislike of big corporations drives opposition to climate action when people learn large firms navigate regulations more easily www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💡Ideology can be a key factor in shaping the territorial (de)centralization of power. ➡️ A. M. Wilke, G. Syunyaev & M. Ting find that ideological polarization and re-election prospects drive politicians away from centralization www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🗣️When mainstream parties engage in populist rhetoric and adopt radical right issue positions... ➡️ @markuskollberg.bsky.social shows that voters penalize or reward them for their programmatic responses but do not react to rhetorical accommodation www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💰 Does foreign income fuel power consolidation in dictatorships? ➡ @bernatpuertas.bsky.social & A. Escribà-Folch show there is no robust link between the two—only a limited effect on certain aspects of personalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🛥️ @fresejoris.bsky.social applies Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design to study how Mediterranean shipwrecks shape immigration attitudes... ➡️...and finds anti-immigration attitudes only declined in one exceptionally high-salience case www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- ⚔️What drives the geography and timing of contestation in civil war? ➡️ @andresuribe.bsky.social & N. Schouela propose a theory of opportunistic rebel tactics, tested using landslide-induced road closures as an exogenous shock to state capacity www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📽️Are your favourite characters from Disney, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, & Star Wars left-wing or right-wing? 🤔 ➡️ @turnbulldugarte.com & @markuswagner.bsky.social explore how we project political identities onto heroes & villains www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📈Attrition is a major challenge in panel surveys. ➡️ @aalrababah.bsky.social @mc47.bsky.social @dmasterson.bsky.social D.Hangartner J.Weinstein propose a framework to reduce it and offer an online platform to facilitate the logistics of the implementation www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🇲🇽Mexico's war on drugs is characterized by small, local groups rather than large cartels ➡️Using a new dataset, @janeesberg.bsky.social shows that traditional drug war strategies, like kingpin removals, are correlated with the emergence of smaller groups www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📜When measuring authoritarianism, the wording of questions is important. ➡️ @daveamp.bsky.social & C. Swartz find that respondents were significantly less authoritarian when a survey prompted them to think of a "girl" rather than a "child" or "boy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🇨🇳Can autocratic governments influence foreign media? ➡️Exploiting China's expulsion of American journalists in 2020, R. Lai shows US news outlets targeted by the expulsion adopted a more positive tone toward China in their subsequent coverage www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🚀Do external threats unite or divide Americans? ➡️Using real-world primes, Eddy S. F. Yeung & Weifang Xu find no evidence that threats from China shifted U.S. foreign policy preferences or worsened Democrats’ and Republicans’ affect toward each other www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🔖In the international political economy, standards shape global trade, from container sizes to "quality" definitions. ➡️ @sunny369.bsky.social presents the StanDat database, an original database on international standards www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- ♀️ Do more female candidates shrink the gender participation gap? 📊 E. Coman & @syysr.bsky.social find that a higher share of women on the ballot reduces the gap by boosting women's turnout—while men's remains unchanged www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🪧 Refugee advocates use perspective-getting and misperception-correcting info to counter hostility & promote inclusion. ➡️ Do they work? @claireadida.bsky.social @adelineylo.bsky.social @melinaplatas.bsky.social @laurenrprather.bsky.social @scottrw630.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- 📊How can we better measure legislators' ideological positions? ➡️ @breunig.bsky.social & @benguinaudeau.bsky.social propose a new approach: an expert survey in which respondents compare pairs of representatives on a left-right dimension www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🦜Do you want to train your stochastic parrot? ➡️ @joeornstein.bsky.social @enblasingame.bsky.social @jaketruscott.bsky.social share best practices for using large language models (LLMs) in social science measurement tasks and processing large text-as-data projects www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🏫Do income and education shape people's priorities? ➡️Contrary to conventional wisdom, @ctausanovitch.bsky.social @derekholliday.com show that income and education are not strongly associated with differences in what people care about www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📉Why do Americans show low support for foreign aid? ➡️Using cross-sectional and panel survey data, D. Macdonald's research points to a key factor: low trust in government www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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- ♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly? ➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🥊What strategies do parties use when facing simultaneous elections? ➡️Using a formal model, C. Zhou shows candidates tend to adopt more extreme positions than those predicted by the classic Calvert–Wittman model www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💸Are political careers economically rewarding? ➡️J.O.Dahlgaard @fkjoeller.bsky.social & N.Kristensen find Danish MPs see income gains during their first term—especially those from lower pre-office income brackets www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView #Openaccess
- ➡️Using two original surveys, D.G. Kim & E.Han show that most Americans embrace the model minority image of Asian Americans, but a significant portion views them in a negative light, perceiving them as overly competitive and un-American www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🇺🇦🇷🇺The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022... 🇪🇺...triggered a surge of EU support among Europeans, growing stronger as the conflict persisted. ➡️Read our latest article by @aslunn.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- ♀️Unequal media coverage of female candidates may contribute to gender inequalities. Can advocacy campaigns change it? ➡️ @maelkubli.bsky.social @fgilardi.bsky.social @gessler.bsky.social analyse the gender bias in news articles in the 2019 Swiss national election www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🪪In the US, many non-White individuals feel solidarity with, and identify as, people of color. But are these concepts distinct? ➡️ @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social @srgoldman.bsky.social Y.J.Huo T.Nteta L.R.Tropp examine if and why these concepts diverge cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🗳️How does a candidate's racial background affect the inferences voters make about them? ➡️ J. D. Wu & G. A. Huber find that voters believe Black candidates prioritize the interests of Black constituents, regardless of candidate positions www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🤔Are Americans’ attitudes toward local issues structured ideologically? ➡️ @bfschaffner.bsky.social @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social & @raylaraja.bsky.social find that only a smaller subset of attitudes about local issues appears distinctively local www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🪟Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote transparency? ➡️J. Hollyer X. Pang @peterrosendorff.bsky.social J. Vreeland show that loan disbursements from the IMF and the WB are positively associated with economic transparency, especially in democracies www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📊Do you have multiple datasets lacking shared identifiers and do you want to merge them? ➡️ @blibgober.bsky.social & @jerzakconnor.bsky.social introduce a massive training corpus and discuss various methods to enhance existing matching benchmarks www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🕸️There is a complex, national-scale online network of state legislators. ➡️Looking at Twitter/X networks, I. Gopal T.Kim N. Nakka, F. Boehmke J. J. Harden B. Desmarais analyze the factors that are associated with tie formation among legislators www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 📊Do you want to use ecological inference to estimate the transfer of votes between parties from one election to another? ➡️José M. Pavía & Søren R. Thomsen introduce a new ecological inference technique: ecolRxC www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 🕊️Using 13,773 speeches by states' representatives before the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, D. Finke & @TobiasRisse find that debates are structured along two dimensions: conventional weapons and WMD and new technologies www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- 💵Are lobbying expenditures a good proxy for lobbying activity? ➡️S. Thieme shows that they can serve as a reasonable proxy. However, heterogeneity across types of lobbyists warrants caution when using data where contract lobbying predominates www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
