2021

Threat-Inducing Violent Events Exacerbate Social Desirability Bias in Survey Responses By: Jaroslav Tir Abstract: A key challenge in survey research is social desirability bias: respondents feel pressured to report acceptable attitudes and behaviors. Building on established findings, we argue that threat-inducing violent events are a heretofore unaccounted for driver of...

Policy Inventing and Borrowing among State Legislatures By Srinivas C. Parinandi Abstract: Although a long literature has analyzed how policies diffuse or spread across the American states, scant attention has been given to how states invent or create original policy instead of borrowing existing policy from one another. In this...

Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes By: Ala Alrababah, William Marble, Salma Mousa, Alexandra Siegel Abstract: Can exposure to celebrities from a stigmatized group reduce prejudice toward that group writ large? We estimate the causal effect of Mohammed Salah—a visibly...

Angin, M, Shehaj, A, & Shin, AJ. Inside job: Migration and distributive politics in the European Union. Econ Polit . 2020; 00: 1– 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12170 . Published: 06 January 2021 Abstract: Migration has become a top policy priority of the European Union (EU) in the wake of the 2015 migrant...

John D. Griffin and Grace Sager Published: 2021, Studies in American Political Development Publication coming soon!