#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Liberal democratic values among immigrants in Europe: Socialisation and adaptation processes - https://cup.org/42C8Zxv

- @fguelzau.bsky.social, Marc Helbling & @snmorgenstern.bsky.social

#FirstView

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

"We echo previous calls to temper our discussions of misinformation and avoid jumping to overblown conclusions about the effects of misinformation"

"Combining an urgent analysis with masterful breadth, Susan Stokes’s book The Backsliders focuses on the contemporary challenge of global democratic erosion, a notable and expanding trend."

Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/3WhckhQ

Just posted an updated/revised version of this “Statistical Methods in Public Policy Research” chapter, now under review post-R&R 🤞

I'm kinda partial and unbiased here, but I really really like this piece!

HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/
SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data…

—Top Public Worry: Corruption

—Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption

—Top fear: Corruption

—What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt”

It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Finding the fingerprints of generative AI in psychology publications: https://osf.io/3hx76

Researchers asked AI to generate 100 short stories from the same prompt and found the same plot elements showing up again like echoes, even across different LLMs. The collective creativity of online content is at risk, the authors say. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

"Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners" by Roman Senninger, Martin Baekgaard, and Henrik Seeberg.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Do high workloads force bureaucrats to discriminate?

In a published paper at the @thejop.bsky.social, I challenge the dominant explanation of discrimination in public service delivery. Surprisingly, I find that bureaucrats are able to handle substantial workloads without discriminating.

Brextinction!

From our student @fresejoris.bsky.social and colleagues @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Is the world turning conspiracist?

Contrary to this widespread belief, research by Uscinski et al in the US and Europe, approaching the question in different ways, fails to observe systematic evidence for an increase in conspiracism:

buff.ly/hFQ31qu

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Recognize these symptoms of democratic backsliding before it's too late:

1) Extreme polarization
2) Executive control of legislature
3) Quiet incremental tests of democratic norms and limits

muse.jhu.edu/article...

Old-fashioned military coups and blatant election-day fraud are becoming mercifully rarer these days, but other, subtler forms of democratic regression are a growing problem that demands more attention.

muse.jhu.edu/article...

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

💥Online first:

"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"

by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky &
@gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism

gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

🇺🇸 Can watching dialogue across party lines reduce polarisation?

➡️ L-O Ankori-Karlinsky, @robert_a_blair, J. Gottlieb & @smooreberg show that a documentary of an intergroup workshop reduces polarisation and boosts faith in democracy www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"the financial advantage enjoyed by incumbents at all levels of government has declined 25-50% over the last decade. This decline, however, is driven entirely by individual donors, & esp. small-dollar donors; in contrast, the advantage among corporate PACs has remained stable—or even increased."

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My first dissertation paper is now out with @bnbakker.bsky.social &
@gijsschumacher.bsky.social! Do our brains quickly encode partisan bias when simply viewing politicians’ faces?

The paper: doi.org/10.1080/1747...
Journalistic article by Psypost: www.psypost.org/early-brain-...