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The Coevolution of Networks and Political Attitudes
How do attitudes and social affiliations co-evolve? This study uses longitudinal data to track how citizens' political views shift based on their social networks, disentangling whether people…
Picking People or Pushing Politics: Selection and Influence on Five Network Criteria
Do we choose friends who agree with us, or do we become like the friends we have? This study disaggregates social networks into five distinct types—including friendship, respect, and political…
Barbarians at the Gate & Neighbors Next Door: Policy Knowledge, Anxiety, & Public Opinion about Immigration in the U.S.
What actually drives public opinion on immigration? This study disentangles the roles of economic anxiety, cultural threat, and policy knowledge. It finds that "status anxiety"—the fear of…
Two Field Experiments on Leadership and Political Persuasion
This paper presents results from two field experiments involving twelve members of Congress. It finds that direct engagement with leaders leads to substantial persuasion across three dimensions:…
How We Do Things with Surveys: Recognizing Polls as ‘Speech Acts’ Will Improve the Science of Public Opinion
By reframing survey responses as "speech acts" rather than mere data points, this paper argues that scholars can better understand the communicative intent behind public opinion polls and improve…
An Experimental Comparison of AI-Enabled Semi-Structured Interviews and Fixed Surveys: Response Patterns, Quality, and Representation
A methodological study comparing the data quality of AI-conducted semi-structured interviews versus traditional fixed-choice surveys. The researchers evaluate response patterns and…
Thrasymachus’s Blush: Between the Science of Reason & the Politics of Emotion
This paper pushes back against "democratic realists" who argue that citizens are too irrational for democracy. By revisiting the dialogue of Thrasymachus, it argues that recent findings in…
A Theory of Deliberation as Interactive Reasoning
This paper bridges the gap between formal theory and normative deliberative democracy. It develops a model of "interactive reasoning" where participants are motivated not just by strategy, but by…
Logos, Ethos, & Pathos: Mechanisms of Persuasion in a Deliberative Field Experiment
A formal theoretical framework that models deliberation not just as talk, but as "interactive reasoning." The authors demonstrate how citizens can rationally update their beliefs through the…