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Can developers compensate nearby residents to win support for their housing projects? In a new JPublicPolicy article, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and I unpack how compensation works, when it fails, and what that teaches us about symbolic attitudes and housing policy. 1/11

🚨Election Preprint 2 🚨: TikTok versus Instagram in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election? We compare 800K #Instagram posts and 1.2 million #TikTok posts, and find big differences in information sharing. Key take aways below (thread🧵): Preprint: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892

Among the most important charts for thinking clearly about the 2024 election — and politics in general. The hardest divide to cross isn't left vs. right. It's interested vs. uninterested. dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/…

In the season of thanks, I'm thankful to have amazing former students like Eunji Kim. Everyone should pre-order her new book. Come for the fantastic cover, stay for the incredible results and insights: amazon.com/dp/0691267197/…

New paper with Andreas Beerli, Dominik Hangartner, and Dalston Ward about #immigration and voting for the #FarRight in #Switzerland

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'American Idol' and 'Shark Tank' are significantly influencing how Americans think about the economy, according to this eye-opening study from Eunji Kim. It's a troubling assessment of propaganda in pop culture. Princeton University Press buff.ly/4brl2Bb

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? Hannah Waight, Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts and I are excited to share our new article in PNAS (PNASNews): doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Thread below.

Two papers that made me consider that public support for antidemocratic politicians is more personalistic-cultish and less ideological than I thought Eunji Kim & Patterson 2024 Noam Gidron et al 2025 links in reply because the musk algorithm is so bad

🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with Yamil Ricardo Velez and Scott Clifford, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people's attitudes are not what researchers expect.

Thrilled to be hosting the 3rd MEEW (Media Effects Empirical Workshop) at Columbia again. Hope to see some of you there! RSVP link is available at: sites.google.com/view/columbia-…

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New by me —> It turns out watching reality TV — specifically, competition shows like The Voice and Top Chef — changes people's opinions about economic inequality in America. Just one item from my chat with the very interesting Eunji Kim niemanlab.org/2025/04/the-un…

Getting photos like these over the past two weeks has been the most unexpectedly endearing part of publishing The American Mirage. Thank you for taking the time to snap a picture and share where the book landed in your lives! 😍 press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

So honored (and amazed!) that Andrew Gelman Andrew Gelman et al. —my senior colleague—read The American Mirage cover to cover and wrote such a thoughtful review on his blog. Grateful for his generosity and sharp eye. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/22/eun…

Yumin (Hsu Yumin WANG) and I are excited to share our new paper at Journal of Politics @[email protected]! In this paper, we theorize and test the logic of “redistributionist propaganda”—state messaging boasting about redistributive efforts of the regime. 1/ 📰 doi.org/10.1086/734238