PSRM Journal

🏛️ Does women's representation shape perceived fairness of decisions? ➡️ Using a survey experiment, V. Reidinger, @LucasLeemann & J. Slapin show effects vary by policy type, sometimes reducing fairness perceptions when women are overrepresented cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

⚖️ Do major campaign scandals change voters’ minds? ➡️ @lockhartm G. Huber, A. Gerber, J. Walker II show Donald Trump’s felony conviction had virtually no effect on his supporters, while common survey methods produce conflicting estimates cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🤖 Can open source machine translation match commercial tools? ➡️ @hauke_licht @RonjaSczepanski @MoritzLaurer & A Bekmuratovna show open source MT models perform similarly to Google Translate and DeepL in multilingual text analysis cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💰 Do community donations reduce support for paying taxes? ➡️ Using a survey experiment in Kenya, @CeciliaAhsan @EllenMLust & A. Oguso show community donations lower tax compliance attitudes, while public goods increase support for taxes cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🇸🇪 Does far right entry into local politics affect minority representation? ➡️ Using an RDD, M Grahn & S Turnbull-Dugarte show far right entry reduced immigrant candidates on the right, while left parties increased immigrant recruitment #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

🗳️ Do early wins in US presidential primaries create momentum? ➡️ @JonneKamphorst A Davenport, @Marcushagley @EliasDinas & A van de Rijt show that winning early contests like Iowa or New Hampshire has no lasting effect on later outcomes cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

💍 Do interethnic marriages measure social cohesion? ➡️ Using census data from Zambia, @DanielNPosner introduces a new approach showing intermarriage estimates change once local exposure to outgroup members is considered cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

✍️Article co-authored by M. Baum, A. J. Berinsky, @jdbk, J. Jeon, Z. Markovich & Teppei Yamamoto cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📰 Do the effects of partisan media fade quickly or accumulate over time? ➡️ Using multiwave experiments, M Baum et al. show a single exposure can have effects lasting up to a week, while cumulative effects are hard to detect cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

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🌍 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