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Black Beliefs and Racial Identity Norms: An Examination of How Black Americans Understand Racism Open

Antoine Banks, Eric Groenendyk, Jonathan Jackson, Erik O. Kimbrough, Mark Pickup · 2025

Is This How Democracy Dies? Democratic Norms and Belief Systems in Mass Publics Open

Mark Pickup, Eric Groenendyk, Erik O. Kimbrough, Laura B. Stephenson, Laura French Bourgeois , et al. · 2024

What Counts as Racism? American Norms, Partisan Norms, and Personal Beliefs About Racism Open

Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eric Groenendyk, Antoine Banks · 2024

Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting Open

Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. de Rooij · 2023

Bølstad and Dinas (2017) propose a model of spatial voting, based on social identity theory, that suggests supporting a candidate/policy on the other side of the ideological spectrum has a disutility that is not accounted for by common spa…

Replication Data for: Crossing the Line: Evidence for the categorization theory of spatial voting Open

Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. de Rooij · 2023

Bølstad and Dinas (2017) propose a model of spatial voting, based on social identity theory, that suggests supporting a candidate/policy on the other side of the ideological spectrum has a disutility that is not accounted for by common spa…

Ambiguous COVID-19 Messaging Increases Unsafe Socializing Intentions Open

Vincent C. Hopkins, Mark Pickup, Scott C. Matthews · 2023

Before and during the vaccine roll out, governments reported surging COVID-19 cases due to unsafe socializing among younger individuals. Officials continue to search for effective ways to encourage safe socializing behaviour within this de…

How Do We Know What We Know? Learning from Monte Carlo Simulations Open

Ali Kagalwala, Vincent C. Hopkins, Andrew Philips, Mark Pickup, Guy D. Whitten · 2023

Monte Carlo simulations are commonly used to test the performance of estimators and models from rival methods under a range of data generating processes. This tool improves our understanding of the relative merits of rival methods in diffe…

Who Shares Conspiracy Theories and Other Misinformation about Covid-19 Online: Survey Evidence from Five Countries Open

Mark Pickup, Dominik Stecuła, Clifton van der Linden · 2022

Social media have long been considered a venue in which conspiracy theories and other misinformation incubate and spread. It has been no different during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, understanding who spreads misinformation by sharing i…

2020 British Columbia Election Study Open

Mark Pickup, Laura B. Stephenson, Allison Harell · 2022

This election study survey is based upon questions asked in the Canadian Election Study, but tailored for the British Columbia context. It was conducted by the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem).

Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed Open

Mark Pickup · 2022

The papers in this symposium use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate the consequences of estimating time series models with variables that are of different orders of integration. In this summary, I do the following: very briefly outline…

Populist Media Diets Open

Eline A. de Rooij, Dominik Stecuła, Mark Pickup · 2022

Objective. The changing media landscape highlights the need to understand the dynamic nature of Americans’ news consumption patterns. Research to date has focused on understanding how media diets vary across partisanship, while other, cros…

Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis Open

Mark Pickup, Paul M. Kellstedt · 2022

It is understood that ensuring equation balance is a necessary condition for a valid model of times series data. Yet, the definition of balance provided so far has been incomplete and there has not been a consistent understanding of exactl…

The UK’s Relationship with the EU After Brexit Open

EUI-Robert Schuman Submitter, Simon Hix, Mark Pickup · 2022

Crossing the Line Open

Mark Pickup, Erik O. Kimbrough, Eline A. de Rooij · 2022

Replication For: Equation Balance in Time Series Analysis: Lessons Learned and Lessons Needed Open

Mark Pickup · 2021

The papers in this symposium use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate the consequences of estimating time series models with variables that are of different orders of integration. In this summary, I do the following: very briefly outline…

Replication Data for: How Norms Shape the Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics Open

Eric Groenendyk, Erik O. Kimbrough, Mark Pickup · 2021

How should ideology be understood, and should we be concerned if Americans lack it? Combining widely used survey questions with an incentivized coordination game, we separately measure individuals’ own policy preferences and their knowledg…

Replication Data for: Balance as a Pre-Estimation Test for Time Series Analysis Open

Mark Pickup, Paul M. Kellstedt · 2021

It is understood that ensuring equation balance is a necessary condition for a valid model of times series data. Yet, the definition of balance provided so far has been incomplete and there has not been a consistent understanding of exactl…

Issue information Open

Lorena Barberia, Thomas Plümper, Guy D. Whitten, María Leticia, C Gonçalves De Oliveira , et al. · 2021

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Brexit, COVID‐19, and attitudes toward immigration in Britain Open

Mark Pickup, Eline A. de Rooij, Clifton van der Linden, Matthew Goodwin · 2021

Objective A key issue in Britain's referendum on European Union membership was the free movement of labor into Britain, with Brexit “Leavers” having more negative attitudes toward immigrants than “Remainers.” Such anti‐immigrant attitudes …

Social Media, Cognitive Reflection, and Conspiracy Beliefs Open

Dominik Stecuła, Mark Pickup · 2021

A growing number of Americans stay informed about current events through social media. But using social media as a source of news is associated with increased likelihood of being misinformed about important topics, such as COVID-19. The tw…

American Exceptionalism: Determinants of spreading COVID-19 misinformation online in five countries Open

Mark Pickup, Dominik Stecuła, Clifton van der Linden · 2021

Social media have long been considered a venue in which conspiracy theories originate and spread. It has been no different during COVID-19. However, understanding who spreads conspiracy theories by sharing them on social media, and why, ha…

Brexit, COVID-19 and Attitudes Towards Immigration in Britain Open

Mark Pickup, Eline De Rooij, Matthew Goodwin, Clifton van der Linden · 2021

A key issue in Britain’s referendum on European Union membership was the free movement of labour into Britain, with Brexit ‘Leavers’ having more negative attitudes towards immigrants compared to ‘Remainers’. Such anti-immigrant attitudes a…

How populism and conservative media fuel conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 and what it means for COVID-19 behaviors Open

Dominik Stecuła, Mark Pickup · 2021

Research examining attitudes and behaviors of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic has largely focused on partisanship as a lens through which many Americans see the coronavirus. Given the importance of partisan affiliation and the degre…

Replication Data for: Expressive Politics as (Costly) Norm Following Open

Mark Pickup · 2020

When deciding whether to support a political candidate, policy or cause, individuals are observed to prioritize the expression of their political identities. They even knowingly incur personal costs (a lower wage, strained family relations…

Majority of Brits want a soft Brexit compromise, but leave voters don’t Open

Simon Hix, Clifton van der Linden, Mark Pickup · 2020

With the battle over Brexit returning to the House of Commons with the Internal Market Bill, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture: what the British public wants in terms of a longer-term relationship with the European Union. To t…

Democratic Responsiveness Project Datasets Open

Mark Pickup · 2020

The 'MIP data monthly' data set contains imputed values for the proportion of Canadians (in subsets of Canadians) identifying 27 different issues as the most important each month from October 1965 to November 2009. The imputed values are f…

Replication Data for: Transformed-Likelihood Estimators for Dynamic Panel Models with a Very Small T Open

Mark Pickup, Vincent C. Hopkins · 2020

Conventional OLS fixed-effects and GLS random-effects estimators of dynamic models that control for individual-effects are known to be biased when applied to short panel data (T <= 10). GMM estimators are the most used alternative but are …

Novel Coronavirus, Old Partisanship: COVID-19 Attitudes and Behaviours in the United States and Canada Open

Mark Pickup, Dominik Stecuła, Clifton van der Linden · 2020

The novel coronavirus reached the United States and Canada almost at the same time. The first reported American case was January 20, 2020, and in Canada it was January 15, 2020 (Canada, 2020; Holshue et al., 2020). Yet, the response to thi…

Novel coronavirus, old partisanship: COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors in the United States and Canada Open

Mark Pickup, Dominik Stecuła, Clifton van der Linden · 2020

We utilize nationally representative surveys from the United States and Canada to examine the partisan divide in COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours in both countries. The ﬁrst cases of COVID-19 in both the US and Canada occurred around the …

Canada_Federal_Election_Polls_May_1945_October_2019.tab Open

Philippe Mongrain, Mark Pickup · 2020

Canada Federal Election polls 1945-2019 (Mongrain update to Pickup)

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