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💵How do governments shape income inequality—via rules or discretion? ➡️Analyzing U.S. states (1986–2020), G.A.Krause & M.L.Lofton find little effect from tax/expenditure limits or party control—except when Republicans govern under such limits cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🏦When do people report their true views on the economy? ➡️Jan Zilinsky & James Bisbee find that less-politicized survey questions better capture actual public welfare—beyond partisan bias cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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🗣️Every politician knows: ask for more than you want (or need) ➡️Z.Desai & Scott Tyson develop a theory of electoral competition where voters evaluate politicians by both their ideological platforms and their ability to implement them cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🚜🏙️ Do urban and rural Americans care about different policy issues? ➡️Using data from 850 surveys, T. Murat Yildirim & K.M.Solvig show modest but consistent differences in priorities—but it’s partisanship, not place, that shapes most views cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🖤Are emotions in surveys shaped by social desirability? ➡️Marzia Oceno finds that respondents underreport negative emotions like anger & fear—and even positive ones like hope & pride are not immune to social desirability bias cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧠What drives support for antitrust policies? ➡️Ryan Brutger & Amy Pond find that fairness and the importance of maintaining democratic institutions matter more than lower prices cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📺Do TV ads sway voters in presidential primaries? ➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧠Can affective polarization erode democratic support without strong party ties? ➡️Using a survey experiment in Chile’s 2022 plebiscite, L. Cox, P. Cubillos & Carmen Le Foulon show that subtle polarization cues reduce democratic commitment cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💡Can citizens in autocracies evaluate leaders without knowing their ideologies? ➡️Using Wason selection tasks in China, Y. Yang, M. Liang & B. Wang show that people rely on cheater detection, judging leaders by fairness rather than ideology cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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⁉️In survey experiments, should you ask covariates before the treatment? ➡️Amanda Sahar d’Urso Tabitha Bonilla & G.Bogdanowicz study the effects of placing sensitive items in different parts of the survey flow and offer guidance on optimal question order cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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🏆We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2024–25 Best Paper Award in PSRM Journal! 🏅The political consequences of technological change that benefits low-skilled workers, by Henning Finseraas and Ole Henning Nyhus cambridge.org/core/journals/… Congratulations to the authors!🎉

🏆And the PSRM Best Reviewer Award goes to... Yoram Haftel. Congratulations🎉 The committee was "particularly impressed with the way that Haftel constructively improved the submission with concrete and insightful suggestions" EPSA

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💘Can authoritarian propaganda cultivate support and deter protest during “normal” times? ➡️Tony Zirui Yang & Hongshen Zhu find that hard propaganda reinforces support for protest, while soft propaganda loses credibility cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data? ➡️Sebastian Haunss, P.Daphi, Jan Matti Dollbaum, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧠Can dignity appeals boost engagement with marginalized groups? ➡️P. Bollen, W. Kymlicka, Evan Lieberman & B. Read show that Facebook ads using dignity language spark positive reactions, but only when targets are not seen as “blameworthy” cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💣Do terrorist attacks always boost support for incumbents? ➡️ Albert Falcó-Gimeno Jordi Muñoz Roberto Pannico show that in Spain support for incumbents rose ~4pts after attacks, mostly when the incumbent was conservative and when civilians were targeted cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView