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Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kevin Arceneaux, 2012, "Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/LLY9L4, Yale Dataverse, V2
Competition in political debate is not always sufficient to neutralize the effects of political rhetoric on public opinion. Yet little is known about the factors that shape the persuasiveness of political arguments. In this article, I consider whether cognitive biases influence the perceived strength of political arguments, making some arguments mo... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Ryan Garcia, 2015, "National Service and Civic Engagement: A Natural Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/YGHPRX, Yale Dataverse, V2
Nearly all studies that seek to uncover the effects of military service on the individual are plagued with the self-selection bias that comes with studying the all-volunteer force. To solve this problem, this paper takes advantage of the natural experiment afforded by the suspension of the French National Service program to produce unbiased causal... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Xiaobo Lü; Kenneth Scheve; Matthew J. Slaughter, 2012, "Inequity Aversion and the International Distribution of Trade Protection", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/Q9RDXT, Yale Dataverse, V2
One important puzzle in international political economy is why lower-earning and less-skilled intensive industries tend to receive relatively high levels of trade protection. This pattern of protection holds across countries with vastly different economic and political characteristics and is not well accounted for in existing political economy mode... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kenneth Scheve; David Stasavage, 2012, "Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/HM1XSX, Yale Dataverse, V2
In this article we use an original data set to provide the first empirical analysis of the political economy of inherited wealth taxation that covers a significant number of countries and a long time frame (1816–2000). Our goal is to understand why, if inheritance taxes are often very old taxes, the implementation of inheritance tax rates significa... |
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Daniel Corstange; Nikolay Marinov, 2012, "Taking Sides in Other People's Elections: The Polarizing Effect of Foreign Intervention", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VY0ZUJ, Yale Dataverse, V2
What do voters think when outside powers become de facto participants in a country’s election? We conceptualize two types of foreign intervention: a partisan stance, where the outsider roots for a particular candidate slate, and a process stance, where outsiders support the democratic process. We theorize that a partisan outside message will polari... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daniel Butler; Christopher F. Karpowitz; Jeremy C. Pope, 2017, "A Field Experiment on Legislators' Home Styles: Service versus Policy", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/9CNGGQ, Yale Dataverse, V2
We conducted a field experiment involving roughly 1,000 letters sent by actual individuals to nearly 500 different legislative offices in order to test whether legislative offices prioritize service over policy in their home style. We find strong evidence that both state and federal legislative offices are more responsive to service requests than t... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alan S. Gerber; Gregory Huber; David Doherty; Conor M. Dowling, 2014, "Citizens’ Policy Confidence and Electoral Punishment: A Neglected Dimension of Electoral Accountability", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/QHCSC2, Yale Dataverse, V2
If voters punish elected officials who adopt incongruent policy positions, then representatives should take popular positions to avoid electoral sanction. Yet, scholars have noted gaps between citizen preferences and the behavior of elected officials. We argue that one important source of this gap is that individual citizens believe they are someti... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Daniel Butler; David W. Nickerson, 2012, "Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect How Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/QVCG0C, Yale Dataverse, V2
When legislators are uninformed about public opinion, does learning constituents' opinion affect how legislators vote? We conducted a fully randomized field experiment to answer this question. We surveyed 10,690 New Mexicans about the Governor's spending proposals for a special summer session held in the summer of 2008. District-specific survey res... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
John Bullock, 2013, "Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/TGF5VL, Yale Dataverse, V2
An enduring concern about democracies is that citizens conform too readily to the policy views of elites in their own parties, even to the point of ignoring other information about the policies in question. This article presents two experiments that undermine this concern, at least under one important condition. People rarely possess even a modicum... |
Robert G. Boatright; Donald P. Green; Michael J. Malbin, 2011, "Does Publicizing a Tax Credit for Political Contributions Increase Its Use?: Results From a Randomized Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/WVOWDZ, Yale Dataverse, V2
We present the results of an experiment using nonpartisan, informational direct mail—of the sort that a public relations–conscious government agency might use—to encourage Ohio voters to contribute money to political candidates. Ohio provides full tax credits of up to $50 to citizens who make contributions to state candidates. We found that the mai... |
