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Joshua L. Kalla; Ethan Porter, 2021, "Correcting Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Elected Officials: Results from Two Field Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/EBRMRY, Yale Dataverse, V2
While concerns about the public’s receptivity to factual information are widespread, much less attention has been paid to the factual receptivity, or lack thereof, of elected officials. Recent survey research has made clear that US legislators and legislative staff systematically misperceive their constituents’ opinions on salient public policies.... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
David E. Broockman; Joshua L. Kalla; Alexander Guerrero; Mark Budolfson; Nir Eyal; Nicholas P. Jewell; Monica Magalhaes; Jasjeet S. Sekhon, 2021, "Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/VLDF9G, Yale Dataverse, V2
A vaccine for COVID-19 is urgently needed. Several vaccine trial designs may significantly accelerate vaccine testing and approval, but also increase risks to human subjects. Concerns about whether the public would see such designs as ethical represent an important roadblock to their implementation; accordingly, both the World Health Organization a... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Christina Kinane, 2021, "Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/HMJUGW, Yale Dataverse, V2
Scholarship on separation of powers assumes executives are constrained by legislative approval when placing agents in top policy-making positions. But presidents frequently fill vacancies in agency leadership with unconfirmed, temporary officials or leave them empty entirely. I develop a novel dataset of vacancies across 15 executive departments fr... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Katherine Krimmel; Kelly Rader, 2021, "Racial Unfairness and Fiscal Politics", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/H237XQ, Yale Dataverse, V2
We provide and test a theory explaining how and why racial attitudes shape public opinion on government spending in the United States. We hypothesize that many people think the government allocates money unfairly across racial groups, and “inequity aversion” leads them to reject spending as a result. Using data from an original survey, we find supp... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Kyle Peyton; Gregory Huber, 2021, "Racial Resentment, Prejudice, and Discrimination", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/8MYU2C, Yale Dataverse, V2
Political scientists regularly measure anti-Black prejudice in the survey context using racial resentment, an indirect measure that blends racial animus with traditional moral values. Explicit prejudice, a direct measure based in beliefs about the group-level inferiority of Blacks, is used less frequently. We investigate whether these attitudes pre... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Patrick Tucker; Steven Smith, 2021, "Changes in Candidate Evaluations over the Campaign Season: A Comparison of House, Senate, and Presidential Races", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/9GFOMD, Yale Dataverse, V2
How do citizens’ preferences for candidates change during a campaign season? For the first time, this panel study examines how citizens’ preferences for candidates change during the general election campaign season for House, Senate, and presidential elections, which vary widely in their salience and contestedness. House races exhibit the greatest... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alexander Coppock; Seth J. Hill; Lynn Vavreck, 2021, "The Small Effects of Political Advertising are Small Regardless of Context, Message, Sender, or Receiver: Evidence From 59 Real-time Randomized Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/OGTYGY, Yale Dataverse, V2
Evidence across social science indicates that average effects of persuasive messages are small. One commonly offered explanation for these small effects is heterogeneity: Persuasion may only work well in specific circumstances. To evaluate heterogeneity, we repeated an experiment weekly in real time using 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign ad... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Andrew Gooch; Gregory Huber, 2021, "Exploiting Donald Trump: Using Candidates' Positions to Assess Ideological Voting in the 2016 and 2008 Presidential Elections", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/81ANUO, Yale Dataverse, V2
Testing theories of how candidate positions affect voting is often complicated by the strong correlation between candidate partisanship and candidate positions. We take advantage of Donald Trump's unusual candidacy to understand how candidates who depart from standard party positions affect perceptions of ideology and voting. We show in both 2016 a... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Graeme Blair; Alexander Coppock; Maggie Moor, 2021, "When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/ZXTHHI, Yale Dataverse, V2
Eliciting honest answers to sensitive questions is frustrated if subjects withhold the truth for fear that others will judge or punish them. The resulting bias is commonly referred to as social desirability bias, a subset of what we label sensitivity bias. We make three contributions. First, we propose a social reference theory of sensitivity bias... |
Apr 8, 2026 - ISPS Data Archive
Alan S. Gerber; Gregory Huber; Al Fang, 2020, "Do Subtle Linguistic Interventions Priming a Social Identity as a Voter Have Outsized Effects on Voter Turnout? Evidence from a New Replication Experiment", https://doi.org/10.60600/YU/0GBEGJ, Yale Dataverse, V2
An ongoing debate in political psychology is about whether small wording differences have outsized behavioral effects. A leading example is whether subtle linguistic cues embedded in voter mobilization messages dramatically increase turnout. An initial study analyzing two small-scale field experiments argued that describing someone as a voter (noun... |
