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Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder Open
Prior work has often studied how focusing events---in particular police killings of unarmed people---affect citizens' attitudes. Do focusing events also affect citizens' behaviors---changing the scope of conflict by incorporating prospecti…
View article: Correction: 400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States
Correction: 400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268134.].
Navigating Potential Pitfalls in Difference-in-Differences Designs: Reconciling Conflicting Findings on Mass Shootings’ Effect on Electoral Outcomes Open
Work on the electoral effects of gun violence in the U.S. relying on difference-in-differences designs has produced findings ranging from null to substantively large effects. However, as difference-in-difference designs, on which this rese…
Public mass shootings cause large surges in Americans’ engagement with gun policy Open
As public mass shootings continue to plague the United States, a growing scholarly literature seeks to understand the political effects of these tragic events. This literature, however, focuses on public opinion or turnout and vote choice,…
Replication Data for: Is that Ethical? An Exploration of Political Scientists’ Views on Research Ethics Open
Replication Data for: Is that Ethical? An Exploration of Political Scientists’ Views on Research Ethics
Is that ethical? An exploration of political scientists’ views on research ethics Open
What do political scientists think about research ethics? What research practices do they find acceptable? Using a survey conducted with the American Political Science Association, we explore perceptions of ethics among 362 political scien…
Replication Data for: Do Sleep Disruptions Promote Social Fragmentation? Open
Replication Data for: Do Sleep Disruptions Promote Social Fragmentation? (Politics and the Life Sciences)
Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder Open
Prior work has often studied how focusing events---in particular police killings of unarmed people---affect citizens' attitudes. Do focusing events also affect citizens' behaviors---changing the scope of conflict by incorporating prospecti…
George Floyd's Murder Prompted Thousands of Americans to Register to Vote Open
George Floyd's 2020 murder at the hands of police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department catalyzed thousands of citizens to take to the streets---protesting, rallying, and marching in communities across the United States (and beyo…
Do sleep disruptions promote social fragmentation? Open
Sleep changes predate shifts in mood/affect, thought processing, mental and physical health, civic engagement, and contextual circumstances, among other things. Theory predicts that these changes may lead to shifts in political and social …
View article: Reply to Mitterer: Conceptual and empirical issues that arise when using correspondence audits to measure racial discrimination
Reply to Mitterer: Conceptual and empirical issues that arise when using correspondence audits to measure racial discrimination Open
Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms …
Civilian national service programs can powerfully increase youth voter turnout Open
Low rates of youth voting are a feature of contemporary democracies the world over, with the United States having some of the lowest youth turnout rates in the world. However, far too little is known about how to address the dismal rates o…
Replication Data for: Civilian National Service Programs Can Powerfully Increase Youth Voter Turnout Open
This dataset contains replication data for the publication Civilian National Service Programs Can Powerfully Increase Youth Voter Turnout.
View article: 400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States
400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States Open
One of the core tenets of a well-functioning representative democracy is that the people who vote to elect government officials are representative of the public. Here we reinforce the idea that reality is far from this lofty ideal. We docu…
Validated Names for Experimental Studies on Race and Ethnicity Open
A large and fast-growing number of studies across the social sciences use experiments to better understand the role of race in human interactions, particularly in the American context. Researchers often use names to signal the race of indi…
Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class Open
Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race or ethnicity. The evidence that these studies provide about racial discrimination depends on the assumption that…
View article: Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people?
Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people? Open
Significance Although previous attempts have been made to measure everyday discrimination against African Americans, these approaches have been constrained by distinct methodological challenges. We present the results from an audit or corr…
Replication Data for: Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people? Open
Replication data for: Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people relative to White people?
Replication Data for: Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence Open
Voting is the foundational act of democracy. While thousands of studies have treated voting as a dependent variable, comparatively little research has studied voting as an independent variable. Here we flip the causal arrow and explore the…
Replication Data for: "There is no liberal media bias in which news stories political journalists choose to cover" Open
Data and code to replicate Hassell, Hans J. G., John B. Holbein, and Matthew R. Miles. 2020. “There Is No Liberal Media Bias in the News Political Journalists Choose to Cover.” Science Advances 6(14):eaay9344.
View article: The participatory and partisan impacts of mandatory vote-by-mail
The participatory and partisan impacts of mandatory vote-by-mail Open
This paper shows that mandatory vote-by-mail increases voter turnout but does not advantage one political party over the other.
Replication Data for: The Democracy of Dating: How Political Affiliations Shape Relationship Formation Open
Replication Data for: The Democracy of Dating: How Political Affiliations Shape Relationship Formation