PSRM Journal

🤑When do the wealthy support redistribution? ➡️@fabichores & @darolo_99 find that in Colombia, wealthy individuals are more likely to back redistribution when it comes from the right, which they see as more efficient and less disruptive cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💰 How should we measure early campaign fundraising? ▶️ @colinrcase & @rachel__porter propose two distinct approaches: candidate-centred and election-centred early money. Explore their framework👇 cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧪How did COVID-19 affect citizens' democratic preferences? ➡️@cescamat @AndreuArenas @afalcogimeno & @jordimunozm find a lasting rise in technocratic preferences and a temporary bump in the willingness to sacrifice civil rights and freedoms cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗳️Multiple elections on the same day, but some voters skip certain votes. Why? ➡R Foellmi, R Heim & L Schmid show that voters weigh the salience and information costs of each vote, influencing turnout and selective abstention cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🪃Do legislators trade proposals? ➡️Leveraging a lottery in the Canadian Parliament, @semrasevi & D.P. Green find little evidence MPs second motions to gain favor. Support seems driven by shared interests, not quid pro quo cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

👩‍🦰Do women politicians address violence against women more effectively? ➡️Using data from Mexico and a RDD, @Marco_Alcocer1 R. Skillman & @angietorresbel find fewer female and young female homicides in municipalities led by women cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

👑Can foreign religious threats drive local state-building? ➡Focusing on late 16th-century Japan, M. Wang, A.M. Mitchell & @WeiwenYin show that areas with Catholic churches were more likely to be surveyed in response to missionary threats cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧪Labeling multimodal social media data is costly. ➡H Chen @JamesBisbee @j_a_tucker & @Jonathan_Nagler propose five metrics to assess the costs/benefits of multimodal versus text only labeling, illustrated through a tweet labeling experiment cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

⚖️How strong are international standards in practice? ➡️Using bunching estimation and a DID of British Virgin Islands exchanges, @KNershi shows how crypto users dodge rules and adjust transaction sizes to avoid threshold-based screening cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

➡️J. Bernhard-Harrer, R. Ashour, J-M Eberl, P. Tolochko & H. Boomgaarden review 789 studies using topic modeling and find little standardization in validation. 🔖They propose a guide to help classify validation methods cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

😒Do elections stir emotions? ➡Using Facebook data from 29 presidential races in 26 democracies, D Kim, T Muraoka, C Lucas, @Jacob_Montg & M Tavits find that ideological polarization, not populism, intensifies emotional reactions cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🕊️Do mass publics and foreign policy elites see eye to eye on democratic peace? ➡M Scholten & K Zhirkov compare U.S. State Dept. experts and citizens in identical conjoints. Experts oppose wars with democracies and hold firmer views cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗳️Does satisfaction boost turnout, or does voting boost satisfaction? ➡️@Filip_Kostelka L.Linek @JanRovny M.Škvrňák find both in Central and Eastern Europe. Satisfaction drives turnout, and voting boosts satisfaction, especially for winners cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

✝️Does the rise of evangelical Christians reshape electoral politics? ➡️ V. Araújo shows that Brazil’s evangelical boom is linked to lower voter turnout and greater conservatism, but not to a rise in electoral competition or polarization cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💣Do terrorist attacks always boost support for incumbents? ➡️ @afalcogimeno @jordimunozm @robbpann show that in Spain support for incumbents rose ~4pts after attacks, mostly when the incumbent was conservative and when civilians were targeted cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧠Can dignity appeals boost engagement with marginalized groups? ➡️P. Bollen, W. Kymlicka, @evlieb & B. Read show that Facebook ads using dignity language spark positive reactions, but only when targets are not seen as “blameworthy” cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data? ➡️@sehaunss, P.Daphi, @JanMattiD, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💘Can authoritarian propaganda cultivate support and deter protest during “normal” times? ➡️Tony Zirui Yang & @HongshenZhu find that hard propaganda reinforces support for protest, while soft propaganda loses credibility cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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