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View article: Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander
Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander Open
Partisan polarization in the United States has intensified, fueling hostility toward partisan out-groups and eroding political and social trust. This divide has often been compared to the fervent loyalty of sports fans, where competition a…
View article: Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander
Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander Open
Partisan polarization in the United States has intensified, fueling hostility toward partisan out-groups and eroding political and social trust. This divide has often been compared to the fervent loyalty of sports fans, where competition a…
View article: Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support
Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support Open
How do individuals process political information? What behavioral mechanisms drive partisan bias? In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which partisan bias is driven by affect or ideology in a three-pronged approach informed by both psy…
View article: Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science
Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science Open
Machine learning (ML) methods in general and tree-based methods in particular are on the rise in the social sciences. While ML is widely valued for predictive accuracy, new causally-oriented machine learning methods actually leverage this …
View article: Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science
Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science Open
Machine learning (ML) methods in general and tree-based methods in particular are on the rise in the social sciences. While ML is widely valued for predictive accuracy, new causally-oriented machine learning methods actually leverage this …
View article: Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science
Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science Open
Machine learning (ML) methods in general and tree-based methods in particular are onthe rise in the social sciences. While ML is widely valued for predictive accuracy, newcausally-oriented machine learning methods actually leverage this po…
View article: Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science
Causal Forest and Doubly Robust Machine Learning for Political Science Open
Machine learning (ML) methods in general and tree-based methods in particular are on the rise in the social sciences. While ML is widely valued for predictive accuracy, new causally-oriented machine learning methods actually leverage this …
View article: Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander
Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander Open
Partisan polarization in the United States has intensified, fueling hostility toward partisan out-groups and eroding political and social trust. This divide has often been compared to the fervent loyalty of sports fans, where competition a…
View article: Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander
Attitudes Surrounding Fairness and Competition in Sports Predict Choices to Partisan Gerrymander Open
Partisan polarization in the United States has intensified, fueling hostility toward partisan out-groups and eroding political and social trust. This divide has often been compared to the fervent loyalty of sports fans, where competition a…
View article: The Dangers of Calculating Conditional Effects: A Reevaluation of Barber and Pope (2019)
The Dangers of Calculating Conditional Effects: A Reevaluation of Barber and Pope (2019) Open
Barber and Pope (2019) ask: "Are people conservative (liberal) because they are Republicans (Democrats)? Or is it the reverse: people are Republicans (Democrats) because they are conservatives (liberals)?" So far, answers to this important…
View article: The Balance Permutation Test: A Machine Learning Replacement for Balance Tables
The Balance Permutation Test: A Machine Learning Replacement for Balance Tables Open
Balance tests are standard for experiments despite their inability to detect randomization issues and covariate imbalance. There is no consensus on how randomization and balance should be checked, and how failures and imbalances should be …
View article: Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support
Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support Open
How do individuals process political information? What behavioral mechanisms drive partisan bias? In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which partisan bias is driven by affect or ideology in a three-pronged approach informed by both psy…
View article: Affect, Not Ideology: The Psychological Mechanisms of Partisan Information Processing
Affect, Not Ideology: The Psychological Mechanisms of Partisan Information Processing Open
How do individuals process political information? What psychological mechanisms drive partisan bias? In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which partisan bias is driven by affect or ideology in a three-pronged approach informed by both …
View article: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey
Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey Open
While scholars increasingly link affective polarization to the rise of populist parties, existing empirical studies are limited to the effects of radical right parties, without considering the possible effects of leftist populist parties o…
View article: Replication Data for: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey
Replication Data for: Populism and the affective partisan space in nine European publics: Evidence from a cross-national survey Open
Datasets and code used for conducting all analyses and creating all figures for this publication.
View article: Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries: A cross-state synthetic control methods approach
Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries: A cross-state synthetic control methods approach Open
Vaccines are the most effective means at combating sickness and death caused by COVID-19. Yet, there are significant populations within the United States who are vaccine-hesitant, some due to ideological or pseudo-scientific motivations, o…
View article: Replication Data for: Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries: A cross-state synthetic control methods approach
Replication Data for: Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries: A cross-state synthetic control methods approach Open
Datasets and code used for conducting all analyses and creating all figures for this publication.
View article: The role of race and scientific trust on support for COVID-19 social distancing measures in the United States
The role of race and scientific trust on support for COVID-19 social distancing measures in the United States Open
Pundits and academics across disciplines note that the human toll brought forth by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States (U.S.) is fundamentally unequal for communities of color. Standing literature on public healt…
View article: Replication Data for: The role of race and scientific trust on support for COVID-19 social distancing measures in the United States
Replication Data for: The role of race and scientific trust on support for COVID-19 social distancing measures in the United States Open
Both datasets and code used to conduct all analyses in this paper.
View article: Local Policy for Better Micromobility
Local Policy for Better Micromobility Open
Author(s): Fuller, Sam; Fitch, Dillon; D'Agostino, Mollie C. | Abstract: This report highlights key themes from a series of ten interviews with U.S. cities with micromobility programs in their jurisdictions (Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Chicag…
View article: Setting TNC Policies to Increase Sustainability
Setting TNC Policies to Increase Sustainability Open
Author(s): Fuller, Sam; Kunz, Tatjana; Brown, Austin L.; D'Agostino, Mollie C. | Abstract: Cities and states across the U.S. are assessing fees or taxes on transportation network company (TNC) platforms, such as Uber and Lyft. The goals of…
View article: Setting Transportation Network Company Policies to Increase Sustainability
Setting Transportation Network Company Policies to Increase Sustainability Open
Author(s): Fuller, Sam; Kunz, Tatjana; Brown, Austin L.; D’Agostino, Mollie C. | Abstract: Use of Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft has grown rapidly in cities across the United States. TNCs often provide a chea…
View article: The Conditional Effect of Scientific Knowledge and Gender on Support for COVID-19 Government Containment Policies in a Partisan America
The Conditional Effect of Scientific Knowledge and Gender on Support for COVID-19 Government Containment Policies in a Partisan America Open
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, many state and local governments were forced to implement necessary policies to contain transmission of the deadly virus. These policies ranged from closing most businesses to m…
View article: The effects of equitability policies on the ZEV market: Evidence from California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project
The effects of equitability policies on the ZEV market: Evidence from California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project Open
California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) is the largest zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) incentive program in the United States. This policy brief summarizes how changes to the CVRP incentive structure may have affected California's ZE…
View article: State-of-the-Knowledge White Paper Series: How Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentives and Related Policies Affect the Market
State-of-the-Knowledge White Paper Series: How Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentives and Related Policies Affect the Market Open
How, and how effectively, different electric vehicle (EV) related policies will work is an immediate and important question for California as the state updates its EV policies. Adding urgency, Assembly Bill (AB) 615, which was signed by th…