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Pre-election polling on this shows richer people were less supportive of the minimum wage expansion than poorer people, which is the opposite conclusion you’d draw from this county-level analysis Solving the ecological inference problem is hard!

A similar story for cynicism about public officials:

But public opinion on many social issues has also shifted left! academic.oup.com/poq/article/85… journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… (Of course, "social issues" is vague and it's not a good survey question. Are we talking about abortion? Immigration? Legalized pot? SSM? Or what?)

Thermostat go brrrrrr

Somehow I neglected to mention a SIXTH American Political Science Review by Vanderbilt University Political Science faculty. This one, by Jorge Mangonnet et al., is now out and formally forthcoming in 2026! "Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Vanderbilt University Political Science 🔥🔥🔥

And while I'm at it, a THIRD piece in the AJPS from Vanderbilt polisci faculty came out yesterday -- this one by my colleagues Brad Smith and Peter Bils: "The Logic of Secret Alliances" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time