How do current and past coalitions explain variations in affect between pairs of parties? This video with Jim Adams summarizes our @cpsjournal.bsky.social article on the topic (w/ @rwillh11.bsky.social), may be useful for those teaching about polarization in Europe: faculti.net/coalition-po...

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at the risk of a hot take, I believe it is per se a good thing to gather quantitative data, as accurately as possible, to help the public better understand the contours of the world and society we live in

New, from me: Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data. The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...

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Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory

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We should ban elected officials from trading individual stocks AND pay them much, much more

Rather than being protectors of the status quo (as they run in 2024), democrats should be the party of "our institutions are broken and here's a set of reforms we propose: multi-member districts/PR, congress expansion, term limits for judges...."

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last yr.

A new House map proposed by the Texas GOP would take 5 seats away from Democrats. Remind me, how is this not just cheating? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?

Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

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Thinking about immigration from a cultural perspective heightens distrust of political opponents—with Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social and @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social at @bjpols.bsky.social. Might interest scholars of polarization and ideology, and those analyzing open-ended questions. cup.org/3ZajcQ1

NEW - Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization - cup.org/3Zvgchx - @noamgidron.bsky.social, James Adams, @rwillh11.bsky.social & @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New update to the ManifestoVault repository is available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2025 German general election. Full coverage: Ireland, UK, Germany 1970-2025 @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

Alona O. Dolinsky@alonadolinsky.com · 2y ago

🚨Publication Alert🚨 An update to the ManifestoVault repository is now available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2024 Irish and UK general elections. Full details in Release Note. @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

Very excited about this project, it’s been a few years in the making!

Alona O. Dolinsky@alonadolinsky.com · last yr.

Started at COMPTEXT two years ago, I was very happy to present today the complete models for detecting social group appeals at #COMPTEXT2025 with @lenamariahuber.bsky.social and @rwillh11.bsky.social Watch this space for use and access details in the coming weeks!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A short thread 🧵 1/n

Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?

Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

tandfonline.com

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our July 2023 issue are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/40fb6XJ With papers by @selenecampion.bsky.social, @noamgidron.bsky.social, @rwillh11.bsky.social & more

🚨New resource now available🚨 @lenamariahuber.bsky.social @rwillh11.bsky.social and I created the ManifestoVault - cleaned, content-verified manifestos at natural-sentence level + some coded metadata for the UK, Ireland and Germany 1970-2021. Spread it around and use it! dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtm...