Gwyneth McClendon

Assoc Professor @nyuniversity | Author of Envy in Politics | Pews to Politics | @identities_NYU

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New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨

In @apsrjournal Avi Ahuja and I share results from a field experiment with @GovernanceFor around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections: https://t.co/a2ovRrjDFy @CUP_PoliSci

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Together, we show many existing ideas about the effects of PR extend to developing democracies but the mechanisms driving those effects may be about candidate-vote vs. party-voter linkages rather than changes in programmatic politics, political competition, new party entry, etc.

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Reminder to register (no fee!) for the Rebecca Morton Experiments Conference taking place next week! Join us: https://t.co/wnOvDyJi4O

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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

Program (scroll down) here: https://t.co/9PkR5wGGCt

Register (no fee) here: https://t.co/wnOvDyJi4O

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[Gwyneth McClendon @GManMac]

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

Program (scroll down) here: https://t.co/9PkR5wGGCt

Register (no fee) here: https://t.co/wnOvDyJi4O

@NYUpolitics @nyuniversity

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Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others

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In designing and interpreting these studies we learned much from and are indebted to the work of @JohnHolbein1 + Sunshine Hillygus, Jessica Gottlieb, Steven Finkel + @AmyEricaSmith, @j_wolak_ Jessica Preece, Claire Willeck + @TMendelberg, @cdsamii @EricMvukiyehe and many others

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Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others

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The @BJPolS article with @ElizabethSperb and O’Brien Kaaba is open-access

[British Jnl Poli Sci @BJPolS]

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Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - https://t.co/cxhSLs6l5R

- @GManMac, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial)

#OpenAccess

[Gwyneth McClendon @GManMac]

Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others

[British Jnl Poli Sci @BJPolS]

NEW -

Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - https://t.co/cxhSLs6l5R

- @GManMac, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial)

#OpenAccess

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Young women exhibited lower levels of political participation, confidence about politics, and interest in politics at baseline. Providing them with both information and a boosted sense of efficacy increased their political interest and their political participation.