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Aug 28, 2026
Paul Lendway, 2026, "The Political Ramifications of Sermon Rhetoric among White U.S. Protestants and White Catholics", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/C1PIEY, Yale Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:EyUysgnsc2Ma9ag2vdNPzA== [fileUNF]
White evangelical Protestants support Republican Party presidential candidates at rates much higher than White Catholics and White mainline Protestants. I argue that local evangelical Protestant sermon content plays an important role in reinforcing this coalition. To explore this, I develop and analyze a novel random sample of 450 U.S. sermons from... |
Apr 27, 2026
Paul Lendway, 2026, "Thin Populist Appeals and Democratic Backsliding Through Candidate Legitimization and Elite Delegitimization", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/R7ILPI, Yale Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:MM3V9DvSgcuapI1rJRSTqg== [fileUNF]
Do thin populist appeals from elites increase support for democratic backsliding at the individual level and, if so, how? Using a set of four national survey experiments in the U.S. (N = 3,791), this paper tests prior arguments that populist appeals from elites increase mass support for democratic backsliding and the legitimacy mechanisms through w... |
Apr 27, 2026
Alexander Love, 2026, "Hearing, Not Heeding: Procedural Acknowledgment and Substantive Influence in Rulemaking", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/MQLCRW, Yale Dataverse, V1
Public participation processes promise that citizens will be heard, but rarely guarantee they will be heeded. This distinction between procedural acknowledgment and substantive influence lies at the heart of bureaucratic responsiveness, yet these two forms of responsiveness are often conflated in empirical research. I demonstrate that in federal ru... |
Natalie Hernandez; Nicholas Ottone; Joshua L. Kalla, 2025, "Targeted Abortion Frames Do Not Mobilize Political Action-Taking", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/BQF3YY, Yale Dataverse, V2
With the advent of Big Data, political organizations are increasingly able to target messages by demographic information. Past research has found mixed results whether targeted frames are more effective in persuading participants than standard, broad-based frames. In this paper, we study the efficacy of targeted appeals in mobilizing likely support... |
Apr 8, 2026
Mellissa Meisels, 2025, "Everything in Moderation? The Effect of Extremist Nominations on Individual and Corporate PAC Fundraising", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/NDP800, Yale Dataverse, V2
The author employ a close primaries regression discontinuity design to examine how “as-if random” nominations of extreme versus moderate House candidates influence general election contributions from individual donors and corporate political action committees (PACs) from 1980 to 2020. |
Apr 8, 2026
Mellissa Meisels, 2025, "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/Z3MQ8G, Yale Dataverse, V2
In 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional protection of abortion rights established in Roe v. Wade. In doing so, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization moved status quo on abortion policy more into line with the Republican Party’s stance. Subsequent research has documented the decision’s impact on mass political behavior and... |
Apr 8, 2026
Matthew Goldberg; Jagadish Thaker; Eric Scheuch; Laura Thomas-Walters; Seth Rosenthal; Anthony Leiserowitz, 2025, "Understanding the Policy Features That Affect Indians’ Support for India’s 2070 Net-Zero Goal", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/P0DNOJ, Yale Dataverse, V2
In 2021, the Indian government announced the goal of net-zero carbon emissions in India by 2070. India’s vulnerability to climate impacts and central role in reducing global emissions make it essential to understand the policy features that affect Indians’ support for the 2070 goal. We conducted a conjoint experiment (N = 1,500) to test Indians’ su... |
Apr 8, 2026
Matthew Dahl, 2025, "Chain Novel, or Markov Chain? Estimating the Authority of U.S. Supreme Court Case Law", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ETLP49, Yale Dataverse, V2
How does the authority of case law evolve over time? On the Dworkinian legal formalist view, cases increase in authority as they become more embedded in the “chain” of legal precedent, but on the Holmesian legal realist view, each case's authority is proportional to its ability to predict future legal outcomes. In this article, I show how modeling... |
Apr 8, 2026
Eric Scheuch; Mark Ortiz; Ganga Shreedhar; Laura Thomas-Walters, 2024, "The Power of Protest in the Media: Examining Portrayals of Climate Activism in UK News", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/7VDIEQ, Yale Dataverse, V2
Existing research on American climate opinion demonstrates that a wide variety of variables impact whether voters support a given policy. However, little research has empirically tested which variables matter the most in creating durable majority support for climate policies, and how varying outcomes of those variables can impact such support. I us... |
Apr 8, 2026
Cesar Zucco; Natalia Bueno; Felipe Nunes, 2024, "Benefits by Luck: A Study of Lotteries as a Selection Method for Government Programs", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/THFJQA, Yale Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:sRMl7DqEdfTzOEHjrvqJqw== [fileUNF]
Lotteries could be a just and cost-effective procedure to distribute government benefits in contexts of oversubscription, with the added benefit of allowing assessments of the impact of government programs. However, little is known about whether there is public support for employing lotteries for selecting beneficiaries of public policies. We exami... |
