PSRM Journal

🌍 Why do not all immigrant groups support progressive parties? ➡️ Using European surveys, @korinlind & @AntValentim show immigrants from established democracies are more likely to back green parties than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🏙️ Do district-based elections change who gets elected locally? ➡️ Studying California's recent shift, M Cushing-Daniels, D Jones & B Shannon show they increased representation from lower-income areas and reduced business influence cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🖋️Article co-authored by Anna Adendorf @okebahnsen Thomas Gschwend, Lena Maria Huber, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein & Lukas F. Stoetzer.

💬 How can we measure inter party communication? ➡️ Using a transformer based approach, A Adendorf et al. classify how parties talk about rivals (positive-negative), with applications to coalition signals in Germany and campaigning in Austria #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🏛️ Why would an authoritarian state not enforce its own policies? ➡️ Studying China’s social insurance system, @haozhang328 & @zhangye68 find that promotion incentives and competition lead local officials to tolerate firm payroll tax evasion cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📞 What motivates participation in consultative events? ➡️ In a field trial with Australian voters, W Minozzi, @MichaelNeblo & @ALeighMP show that generic invites increased uptake, while some framed messages kept participants on the call longer cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🤖 Can LLMs replicate expert text coding? ➡️ Using interest group documents, @dchoiresearch @DenisPeskoff & @b_m_stewart show that fine tuned LLMs outperform trained coders and zero shot models in identifying informative vs associative signals cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧐 Can we trust estimates of political trust when preferences are hidden? ➡D Li, X Lü, S Ma & W Yang show social desirability can bias regressions, question the link between welfare and trust, and offer ways to reduce bias #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗳️ How can we better study the impact of major events with surveys? ➡A bertoli, @laurajakli & H Pascoe clarify the strengths and weaknesses of pre and post survey designs and introduce a dual randomised survey to reduce bias cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🏛️ Do anti elitist parties behave differently in parliament? ➡️ @SimonOtjes & L Vorsteveld use a new voting model to show that anti elitist parties vote alike and differently from others, but only on legislative votes cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🏘️ Why is restrictive zoning linked to racial segregation? ➡️ Using agent based models and parcel level zoning data, @trounstine shows that restrictive rules cluster housing costs and, with unequal wealth & homophily, foster racial segregation cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧠 Do politicians misread their constituents' preferences? ➡️Using a new method where politicians draw preference distributions, N Dias, J Lucas & @LiorSheffer show that conservative overestimation is smaller than assumed cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners? ➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🚺 How does femonationalism affect public opinion? ➡️Using a US survey experiment, S Mainz shows that femonationalist rhetoric boosts opposition to pluralist policies by invoking progressive gender achievements cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📈 How should scholars model conditional relationships in time series data? ➡️ Z Warner, G N Vande Kamp & S Jordan provide guidance on interaction terms in dynamic models, showing how to flexibly model and interpret moderation over time cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗣️ Does official rhetoric predict military escalation in autocracies? ➡️ Using word embeddings, @SiuHeiWong2 finds that harsher Chinese rhetoric toward Taiwan predicts higher risks of military escalation, suggesting rhetoric is not cheap talk cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗳️ How can we better measure party loyalty? ➡️ Using US congressional party leader speeches, @adamramey introduce a new model that disentangles legislator ideology from party loyalty and allows party influence to vary across members & over time cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📨 Whether subjects open a message is a crucial step in experiments. ➡️ T Leavitt & V Rivera-Burgos show how mismeasurement of opens biases estimates and offer practical guidance and sensitivity analyses for message-based experiments cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📋 How can we improve estimates from list experiments? ➡️X. Lu & R Traunmüller introduce a Bayesian approach that uses informative priors to increase efficiency and reshape substantive conclusions cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

📊How did partisan divides in mass behavior vary during COVID-19? ➡ Using panel data, B Canes-Wrone, J T Rothwell & C Makridis show that partisan gaps persist across apolitical behaviors, but narrow as personal costs rise and symbolism falls cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView