Political Science Research and Methods: The journal of #EPSA (European Political Science Association), edited by John Griffin (@griffin_j_d), published by CUP
🗳️ Do multiple vote ballots increase women’s representation?
➡️ Using a survey experiment, @YoshikuniOno H. Miwa & Y. Kasuya show multiple vote ballots encourage more gender balanced voting, though men retain an overall advantage https://t.co/6yplS2n5R8 #FirstView
🎲 Do political lotteries change how legislators vote?
➡️ Studying 19th century Belgium, @BVanCoppenolle, J. De Rongé & S. Riegger show random committee assignments affected legislators' likelihood of rebelling against party majorities https://t.co/q5W4BbNDTc #FirstView
⚖️ Does electoral uncertainty make governments short sighted?
➡️ Using Swedish local data, @axelcronert & @parnyman show electoral competition moderates tax policy, but find little evidence of policy myopia https://t.co/yPlBtEixr9 #FirstView
🏛️ Does women's representation shape perceived fairness of decisions?
➡️ Using a survey experiment, V. Reidinger, @LucasLeemann & J. Slapin show effects vary by policy type, sometimes reducing fairness perceptions when women are overrepresented https://t.co/VDVcsnq6Qe #FirstView
⚖️ Do major campaign scandals change voters’ minds?
➡️ @lockhartm G. Huber, A. Gerber, J. Walker II show Donald Trump’s felony conviction had virtually no effect on his supporters, while common survey methods produce conflicting estimates https://t.co/YXjlK39iQ2 #FirstView
🤖 Can open source machine translation match commercial tools?
➡️ @hauke_licht@RonjaSczepanski@MoritzLaurer & A Bekmuratovna show open source MT models perform similarly to Google Translate and DeepL in multilingual text analysis https://t.co/IC7Tyk68pV #FirstView
💰 Do community donations reduce support for paying taxes?
➡️ Using a survey experiment in Kenya, @CeciliaAhsan@EllenMLust & A. Oguso show community donations lower tax compliance attitudes, while public goods increase support for taxes https://t.co/QrD4omB2Ko #FirstView
🇸🇪 Does far right entry into local politics affect minority representation?
➡️ Using an RDD, M Grahn & S Turnbull-Dugarte show far right entry reduced immigrant candidates on the right, while left parties increased immigrant recruitment https://t.co/OXKG29VJQc #FirstView
🗳️ Do early wins in US presidential primaries create momentum?
➡️ @JonneKamphorst A Davenport, @Marcushagley@EliasDinas & A van de Rijt show that winning early contests like Iowa or New Hampshire has no lasting effect on later outcomes https://t.co/vudn5E0z7S
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💍 Do interethnic marriages measure social cohesion?
➡️ Using census data from Zambia, @DanielNPosner introduces a new approach showing intermarriage estimates change once local exposure to outgroup members is considered https://t.co/VOxTYAVLaZ
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📰 Do the effects of partisan media fade quickly or accumulate over time?
➡️ Using multiwave experiments, M Baum et al. show a single exposure can have effects lasting up to a week, while cumulative effects are hard to detect https://t.co/zllYHJXEu5 #FirstView
🌍 Why do not all immigrant groups support progressive parties?
➡️ Using European surveys, @korinlind & @AntValentim show immigrants from established democracies are more likely to back green parties than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes https://t.co/S99lytLh1l #FirstView
🏙️ Do district-based elections change who gets elected locally?
➡️ Studying California's recent shift, M Cushing-Daniels, D Jones & B Shannon show they increased representation from lower-income areas and reduced business influence https://t.co/vfAq5s04rC #FirstView
💬 How can we measure inter party communication?
➡️ Using a transformer based approach, A Adendorf et al. classify how parties talk about rivals (positive-negative), with applications to coalition signals in Germany and campaigning in Austria https://t.co/6XOm6IwRp6 #FirstView
🏛️ Why would an authoritarian state not enforce its own policies?
➡️ Studying China’s social insurance system, @haozhang328 & @zhangye68 find that promotion incentives and competition lead local officials to tolerate firm payroll tax evasion https://t.co/I3tJBm0hiB #FirstView
��� What motivates participation in consultative events?
➡️ In a field trial with Australian voters, W Minozzi, @MichaelNeblo & @ALeighMP show that generic invites increased uptake, while some framed messages kept participants on the call longer https://t.co/50N6qLLoEq #FirstView
🤖 Can LLMs replicate expert text coding?
➡️ Using interest group documents, @dchoiresearch@DenisPeskoff & @b_m_stewart show that fine tuned LLMs outperform trained coders and zero shot models in identifying informative vs associative signals https://t.co/yy43pZv86w #FirstView