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View article: Towards Generalizable AI-Assisted Misinformation Inoculation: Protecting Confidence Against False Election Narratives
Towards Generalizable AI-Assisted Misinformation Inoculation: Protecting Confidence Against False Election Narratives Open
We present a generalizable AI-assisted framework for rapidly generating effective "prebunking" interventions against misinformation. Like mRNA vaccine platforms, our approach uses a stable template structure that can be quickly adapted to …
View article: Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data
Legislative communication and power: measuring leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from social media data Open
Control over the legislative messaging agenda has important political, electoral and policy consequences. Existing models of congressional agenda-setting suggest that national polarization drives the agenda. At the same time, models of hom…
View article: Electoral Innovation and the Alaska System: Partisanship and Populism Are Associated With Support for Top-4/Ranked-Choice Voting Rules
Electoral Innovation and the Alaska System: Partisanship and Populism Are Associated With Support for Top-4/Ranked-Choice Voting Rules Open
In 2020, Alaskans voted to adopt a nonpartisan top-4 primary followed by a ranked-choice general election. Proposals for “final four” and “final five” election systems are being considered in other states, as well as ranked-choice voting. …
View article: CES 2020, Team Module of Washington University in St. Louis (WAS)
CES 2020, Team Module of Washington University in St. Louis (WAS) Open
This dataverse contains the data and supporting documents for the CES 2020 Team Module of Washington University in St. Louis. This project was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number SES-1948863.
View article: Replication Data for: Through the Ideology of the Beholder: How Ideology Shapes Perceptions of Partisan Groups
Replication Data for: Through the Ideology of the Beholder: How Ideology Shapes Perceptions of Partisan Groups Open
Growing attitudinal and affective differences across party lines and increasing social polarization are often attributed to the strengthening of partisanship as a social identity. Scholars have paid less attention to personal preferences a…
View article: Replication Data for: The Social Consequences of Political Anger
Replication Data for: The Social Consequences of Political Anger Open
This dataverse contains the R script and datasets necessary to reproduce the results in "The Social Consequences of Political Anger."
View article: Leadership Communication and Power: Measuring Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from Social Media Data
Leadership Communication and Power: Measuring Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives from Social Media Data Open
Who leads and who follows in Congress? By leveraging the Twitter accounts of U.S. House of Representatives members, we develop a new understanding of House leadership power using natural language processing methods in new ways. Formal theo…
View article: Replication data for: "All (Mayoral) Politics is Local?"
Replication data for: "All (Mayoral) Politics is Local?" Open
This dataverse contains the R and Python code necessary to reproduce the data and results in "All (Mayoral) Politics is Local?"
View article: Replication Data for: All (Mayoral) Politics is Local?
Replication Data for: All (Mayoral) Politics is Local? Open
This dataverse contains the Python and R code necessary to produce the data and analyses in "All (Mayoral) Politics is Local?"
View article: Many Democrats think that the 2016 election result was rigged
Many Democrats think that the 2016 election result was rigged Open
Previous studies have found that after an election, supporters of the losing candidate tend to be more likely to believe that votes were counted improperly. So how did Donald Trump's claims that the 2016 election was 'rigged' ahead of his …
View article: Comments on Single-Blind Reviewing from the Editorial Staff
Comments on Single-Blind Reviewing from the Editorial Staff Open
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View article: Introducing the New Editorial Team at the Journal of Experimental Political Science
Introducing the New Editorial Team at the Journal of Experimental Political Science Open
We are excited and honored to be the editorial team for JEPS. We are indebted to Eric Dickson for his efforts as the journal's previous editor. He set a high bar for JEPS as an outlet for high quality experimental research. Lucky for us, t…
View article: The Value of Preregistration for Open and Credible Science: An Initiative from the <i>Journal of Experimental Political Science</i>
The Value of Preregistration for Open and Credible Science: An Initiative from the <i>Journal of Experimental Political Science</i> Open
In the interest of promoting open and reproducible science, the Journal of Experimental Political Science editorial team will pilot the pre-acceptance of preregistered reports. We note that the launch of this new submission option is a com…
View article: The Fragile Trump Coalition
The Fragile Trump Coalition Open
In this essay, political scientists Betsy Sinclair, Steven S. Smith and Patrick D. Tucker report on the development of the Trump coalition over the primary and general election campaign season of 2016 and into the first year of his preside…
View article: PAN volume 25 Issue 4 Cover and Front matter
PAN volume 25 Issue 4 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Redefine statistical significance
Redefine statistical significance Open
"We propose to change the default P-value threshold forstatistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005."
View article: Redefine statistical significance
Redefine statistical significance Open
"We propose to change the default P-value threshold forstatistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005."
View article: Rational Voters and the Recall Election
Rational Voters and the Recall Election Open
The 2003 California recall election presented voters with a pair of choices. The first was whether or not to recall Gray Davis as Governor of the state. They were then faced with a list of 135 potential replacement candidates, one of whom …