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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"survey experiments"”.
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Firms, Labor Markets and Anti-System Politics: Essays on the Political Economy of Populism
… and Brazil, using a combination of original survey data, survey experiments and quasi-experimental designs. In the last chapter I focus on the case of France and show that there is a link between labor market characteristics, political deattachment, and a preference for outsider candidates …
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People are more than their politics: Expanding our sense of self as a way to alleviate affective polarization
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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How Voters Use Issues
… decision-making. Through a series of original survey experiments and analysis of multiple panel datasets, I show that voters, hindered by the same cognitive and motivational constraints used by critics to argue against the existence of issue voting, can and do use policy information to inform …
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The politics of race and the criminal justice system
… it applies this framework in the analysis of two survey experiments demonstrating broadly that perceptions of injustice vary markedly by race and specifically showing how people unlikely to experience discrimination personally are unlikely to perceive bias in the specific interactions with the …
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Essays in experimental macroeconomics
… consists of four essays that use controlled experiments to address macroeconomic issues. Chapter 1 (coauthored with Camille Cornand and Adam Zylbersztejn) investigates the robustness of experience effects in laboratory experiments. We compare two scenarios in a beauty-contest game …
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He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
… that includes exploratory studies, national surveys, and pre-registered survey experiments, I show that partisans hold different understandings of anti-Americanism. Democrats tend to emphasize violations of democratic norms and civil liberties, whereas Republicans focus more on loyalty, …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… and demand for the state. Using a panel survey of Indonesian households from 1993 to 2014 with approximately 30,000 observations, I find that those in housing lacking piped water and sanitation access are significantly more likely to speak the national language, express support for vote …
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Is the Medium Still the Message? Assessing the Role of Video in Political Persuasion
… range of data sources, including eight original survey experiments, spanning over 20,000 U.S. adults and more than 150 unique messages, as well as a large dataset of political posts published on Facebook over a five-year period. In the first part of the dissertation, conducted in collaboration …
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Three papers on congressional communication and representation
… in general or the member in particular. However, survey respondents view a member who criticizes Congress as more "like them," potentially introducing a distracting valence issue into elections. In my second paper, I find clear evidence that legislative behavior does not change as a consequence of …
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Do Latinos Party All the Time? The Role of Shared Ethnic Group Identity on Political Choice
… a political choice through an analysis of extant survey data. I also make use of original survey experiments that allow me to determine if there is a causal relationship and to probe the dimensions of Latino group identity. The results indicate that there is an in-group candidate preference. In …
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Politics as Usual: Congress and the Intelligence Community
… communications on Twitter, and a national online survey with two survey experiments. I find that partisan political factors like divided government, election cycles, and party identity can influence patterns of committee and individual behavior, as well as the beliefs held by the public. In short, …
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What's at stake in political messaging?
… from a set of large-scale, randomized, online survey experiments which span multiple electoral contexts and policy issues, I draw the following conclusions. 1. While messages produced by real electoral campaigns have only minimal effects on average, they are highly variable: one message may be …
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The Affective Politics of Democratic Erosion: Explaining Mass Support for Executive Aggrandizement
… The first two empirical chapters rely on online survey experiments conducted in Turkey and Bolivia. My studies in Turkey demonstrate that provoking partisan enthusiasm and anger increases support for executive aggrandizement among incumbent party voters. Importantly, however, this effect is not …
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All the president’s people? The origins of affective attachment towards political leaders
… chapters, the study combines longitudinal surveys, experimental studies, and cross-national data to identify both contextual and micro-level mechanisms that generate Pres-ID. The five-wave repeated cross-sectional surveys in the first empirical chapter investigate campaign dynamics in …
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Queering Survey Research: Measuring LGBTQ+ Political Identity in the U.K.
… orientation and gender identity be measured on surveys? To answer the latter question, I conduct focus group interviews, using queer method as a frame, with LGBTQ+ people to evaluate current SOGI measures. I synthesize these interviews to construct new SOGI measures. I test the efficacy of the …
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A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina
… of my theory using an original face-to-face survey of 1200 local public sector employees that I fielded in three Argentine municipalities (Salta, Santa Fe, and Tigre). Using list experiments--a technique that provides respondents with the anonymity needed to obtain accurate information about …
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Incentivizing Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia: Empirical Essays on the Role of Social Norms and Information Provision
… Using a mixed-methods approach, including survey experiments and social network analysis, the study finds that personal opinions about the importance of plant greenness significantly influence farmers’ input decisions. However, second-order perceptions - farmers’ beliefs about how others in …