Research & Politics
Quality, Speed, Openness: Research & Politics is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, which focusses on research in political science and related fields.
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- New study by Molly Offer-Westort et al. tests an AI social media agent for deep canvassing on anti-transgender prejudice. Personalized NLP messaging shows positive effects, pointing to scalable—but limited—alternatives to in-person outreach. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- @mollyow.bsky.social et al. test climate-policy framing in a 2,300+ U.S. RCT: scientific, religious, moral, and economic (efficiency vs equity). Policy-learning shows efficiency most boosts support, across parties. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Anderson, Byles, Calianos, Francis, Kot, Mosk, Seo, Vizbaras & Nyhan: boosting warmth toward the other party didn’t change intent to share true/false news or discernment. But accuracy reminders modestly improved discernment among political news sharers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- @adamramey.bsky.social warns Big Five–politics findings may be distorted by who completes surveys. New data show Agreeable & Neurotic respondents finish at different rates, shifting estimated trait–behavior links—watch for selection bias. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Darren Hawkins, Joshua R. Gubler, Celeste Beesley, Tayla Ingles & Julia Chatterley: Spain 2022 experiment (~2,000) priming corruption/unemployment lowered support for democracy in general, but not civil liberties or checks on executives. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Gender stereotypes shape scandal reactions. Fernanda Quintanilla Domínguez, @rbellmartin.bsky.social & Brett Ryan Bessen find that in Mexico, women accused of “out-of-character” misconduct were rated more favorably—especially by benevolent sexists. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Jennifer Pan & Yiqing Xu: Do people in autocracies hold stable prefs? 3 China surveys show views: institutions, econ policy, nationalism, social values & ethnic policy stay stable for months—like democracies. Stability rises with education/knowledge. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Using synthetic difference-in-differences, this study by Rivka Lipkovitz finds that strict voter ID laws have no net effect on turnout, with modest heterogeneous effects by election type and adoption timing that may explain prior conflicting results. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- New article by @algaraca.bsky.social, Byengseon Bae, @edwardheadington.bsky.social, Hengjiang Liu, Bianca Nigri and Lisette Gomez uses presidential approval, party brands and polling gaps to forecast 2024 U.S. elections, improving on standard models. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Political agendas ignore the poor's preferences. Hen Hana Kersenti Feldman and Ilana Shpaizman show that Israel's Knesset Public Inquiries Committee (CPI) exposes MPs to citizen grievances, boosting representation of lower- and middle-class issues. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New study by @professorcostas.bsky.social, Green & Moniz tests the “mere exposure” effect in real-world elections. Across 3 experiments, simply seeing challengers’ names doesn’t boost support—even with party labels. Name recognition alone ≠ votes. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- @stonejpsu.bsky.social analyzes X posts from 2022 U.S. Senate candidates to assess alignment with prevailing toxicity perceptions. Findings indicate generally low toxicity, with notable temporal and group-level variation. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Can voluntary gender quotas shift views on women in politics? Vladimir Chlouba’s study of Namibia’s SWAPO finds that a 50/50 quota increased women’s belief in equal political access—without backlash from men, reshaping perceptions of leadership. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Nils-Christian Bormann and Simon Hug ask: Do proportional representation rules induce power-sharing coalition and thereby decrease conflict risk? No! But formally mandated executive power-sharing institutions do. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- @landgravephd.bsky.social, Nicholas R. Jenkins & Aubree J. Hardesty show that voters across parties trust, donate to & support candidates who reject PAC money—penalizing those who accept it. Campaign financing choices clearly shape perceptions. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New research by Baccini, @costinciobanu.bsky.social & Pelc: Offshoring shocks can increase support for leaders with authoritarian traits, while automation does not. A reminder that different economic changes shape politics in very different ways. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Hansol Kwak’s study finds protest mobilization depends not on absolute repression, but on how it deviates from expectations. Results show a U-shaped pattern: participation rises when repression is higher *or* lower than established baselines. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New study by Ko, Downes, Leung & Ming shows populist governments weaken climate readiness, with left-wing populists driving the sharpest decline. Findings highlight how ideology shapes whether nations advance or regress in climate preparedness. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Andreas Graefe’s Issues and Leaders model shows how voter perceptions of competence and leadership shape elections. Forecasting the 2024 race, it captured a tight contest and highlights the value of dynamic, forward-looking electoral analysis. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- In a new study by Ishaan S. Prasad & @zacharyst.bsky.social, they analyze 37k+ faces from protests in 10 countries, showing emotions like anger, fear & happiness co-occur and covary with protest dynamics, rather than directly causing them. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by Research & PoliticsShreyas Meher and Patrick T. Brandt demonstrate how state-of-the-art language models can be efficiently adapted for political event classification, achieving up to 1400% improvement in accuracy while remaining computationally accessible. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Depression isn't just a health issue; it's a political vulnerability. In China, Xing Chen & @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social find it erodes trust, amplified by inequality—affecting both marginalized groups and regime supporters Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- New research by Courtney Juelich & Scott LaCombe finds that youth-salient ballot measures, like marijuana legalization & reproductive rights, boost turnout among Gen Z, Millennials—especially young women. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- R&P thanks our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, @zeynsom.bsky.social! Her leadership and expertise in comparative politics have greatly shaped our journal and its growth. We are grateful for her dedication and wish her all the best in her future endeavors!
- A new study by Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, Rasmus Tue Pedersen & Mads Thau shows that while info on online abuse doesn’t reduce tolerance, it boosts willingness to support politicians or report abusive comments. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- @sysilviakim.bsky.social finds that in 2020 U.S. races, extreme candidates didn’t ask for smaller donations—supporting the view that small donors aren’t more ideologically extreme than large ones. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Can a 2nd far-right party thrive in Spain? SALF shocked in the 2024 EU elections, scoring 4.6% in its debut. New study by Javier Padilla Moreno-Torres, @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social and @bertous.bsky.social analyzes who voted for them—and why. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- @abbymatthews.bsky.social & Rachael Hinkle's analysis of judicial citations demonstrates that diversity in race, gender, *and* partisanship plays a critical role in the evolution of legal doctrine, with judges sharing all 3 salient traits experiencing a 25% increase in citation probability.
- What drives differences between the conflict events datasets UCDP and ACLED? Contrary to previous claims, @magnusoberg.bsky.social and Mert Can Yilmaz find most differences are due to auxiliary coding rules and standards for source evaluation, not sourcing strategies or inclusion thresholds.
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