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Voters' Perceptions of Party Brands Open

David Fortunato, Thiago Silva, Laron Williams · 2025

Business

In order to cast a satisfying vote, understand politics, or otherwise participate in political discourse or processes, voters must have some idea of what policies parties are pursuing and, more generally, 'who goes with whom.' This Element…

The economic roots of cross‐national similarity in voter preferences Open

David Fortunato, Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams · 2024

Political science Computer science

We argue that economic and political integration leads voters' political preferences toward cross‐national convergence. Analyzing data on voter preferences across 30 European democracies from 1976 to 2022, we measure the similarity of pref…

Problem importance across time and space: updating the “Most Important Problem Dataset” Open

Tevfik Murat Yıldırım, Laron Williams · 2024

Computer science Mathematics Physics

This article introduces the second release of the Most Important Problem Dataset (MIPD) – a publicly available dataset that codes all available responses to the most important problem question in American public opinion. In the article, we…

Look over there. Where? A compositional approach to the modeling of public opinion on the most important problem Open

Steven Jokinsky, Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Andrew Philips, Laron Williams, Guy D. Whitten · 2024

Computer science Political science

Objective This study aims to test whether the American public is polarized and/or parallel in its assessments of the most important problem. Methods We use compositional time series models and new data on public opinion to test for differe…

Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies Open

Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams · 2021

Political science Economics Psychology

How do parties decide when to campaign on valence issues given high degrees of uncertainty? Although past studies have provided evidence of transnational emulation of parties' position-taking strategies, these findings do not directly appl…

Replication Data for: Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies Open

Sebastian Juhl, Laron Williams · 2020

Computer science Biology Physics

How do parties decide about when to campaign on valence issues given high degrees of uncertainty? Although research provides evidence for transnational emulation of parties' position-taking strategies, these findings do not directly apply …

Replication Data for: X Marks the Spot: Unlocking the Treasure of Spatial-X Models Open