Matt Grossmann
Michigan State political scientist; on sabbatical at MIT/Harvard; author; @ippsr director; @niskanencenter fellow; @fivethirtyeight contributor; #SocSciResearch
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Motivated prejudice: The effect of need for closure on anti-immigrant attitudes in the United States and Italy and the mediating role of binding moral foundations
Why do people have anti-immigrant attitudes? We proposed that individuals’ need for cognitive closure—an epistemic motivation associated with an avers…
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need for cognitive closure is associated with dislike of immigrants through increased binding to powerful groups
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You are what you eat
Food preferences not only originate from a person’s dietary habits, but also reflect personal values and consumer awareness. This study addresses “food identity” or the relationship between food...
Matt Grossmann
Identifying the “food left-wing” (eg, vegetarians) & the “food right-wing” (eg, fast-food lovers) & their political & interest associations
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Party crashers: Interest groups as a latent threat to party networks in congressional primaries
Recent research asserts that coalitions of party leaders, interest groups, and activists will cooperate to support the nomination of mutually acceptable candida...
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1 party decides: Democratic-aligned interest groups & party leaders coordinate more often & with a more positive substantive effect than Republicans; advent of super PACs allowed few groups to intervene & outspend broader coalitions
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Asymmetric Accountability: An Experimental Investigation of Biases in Evaluations of Governments’ Election Pledges
Governments often fulfill election pledges to remain in power; yet, it is unclear how pledge fulfillment and breakage actually affect public support for governm...
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broken pledges often are more important to government evaluations than fulfilled pledges, & pledge fulfillment decreases support from nonsupporters, more than offsetting marginal gains among supporters
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Public positions, private giving: Dark money and political donors in the Digital Age
Dark money—campaign funds raised by 501(c)(4) designated non-profit corporations whose donors are exempt from disclosure—has become an increasingly large fracti...
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Donors to a conservative dark money group (made public later) were disproportionately liberal compared to those to publicly disclosed conservative groups, possibly indicating a desire to hide affiliation with a conservative cause
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now publishers - How Private Politics Alters Legislative Responsiveness
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Threatening a company boycott makes Republican legislators less likely to say they would take policy action or move their positions
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2018 Political Digital Advertising Report | Tech for Campaigns
The most comprehensive analysis of political digital advertising during the 2018 election
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2018 digital ad spending was low; median Democratic House campaign spent 5% of media dollars on digital, Republicans spent 4%; Senate candidates allocated a little more; Trump & Beto spent the most
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White People's Racial Attitudes Are Changing to Match Partisanship
By Drew Engelhardt ( @_amengel ) Conventional wisdom in American politics, held both by political observers and social scientists, is that Whites’ views about racial and ethnic minorities structure their politics. These attitudes help explain the...
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Huge changes in racial resentment scale scores among Democrats & Republicans accelerate in Trump era, but @_amengel has looked at panel studies & long-term changes & found that partisanship is driving changes in racial attitudes more than reverse
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News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 presidential primary races and how it affected the candidates’ chances of winning the nomination, concluding that...
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Sanders was only candidate to receive net positive media coverage in 2016, which allowed him to rise in favorability while Clinton declined (among Dems & general electorate); this year, he’s #1 in coverage but it’s more negative & shared more broadly 2/3
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Growing Partisan Divides on Immigration Policy
According to the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who want immigration to decrease has dropped. Views on immigration are becoming increasingly partisan.
Which Candidate Got The Most Kickoff Coverage?
The past few months have seen a parade of newly launched presidential campaigns, each hoping to march through the primaries and on to the White House. The stree…
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Bernie & Beto received the most campaign kickoff coverage, but Bernie was covered more by Fox & most associated with the words socialism & socialist; that may help explain his recent decline in favorability
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Corporate lobbying and political contributions and their effects on tax avoidance - Romero - - Journal of Public Affairs - Wiley Online Library
Matt Grossmann
lobbying expenditures & political contributions both lead to lower future corporate taxes, but political contributions are more effective in reducing taxes paid from what would be expected given the federal statutory rate
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Attenuated Governance: How Policymakers Insulate Private School Choice from Legal Challenge - Hackett - - Policy Studies Journal - Wiley Online Library
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Private school choice proponents succeeded by publicly dissociating the government from legally contentious policy outputs through both changes in rhetoric & form of policy (using the tax code)
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Education-Based Status in Comparative Perspective: The Legitimization of Education as a Basis for Social Stratification
Abstract. Classical and recent accounts of education posit that education legitimately, and authoritatively, classifies individuals to positions of lower or hi
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education is an important source of social status across 31 countries & is seen as relatively legitimate & uncontroversial among all educational groups; as higher education expands, it becomes more important in hierarchical group status
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Are Parental Relationships Improved if Fathers Take Time Off of Work After the Birth of a Child?
Abstract. Research has begun to examine the consequences of paternity leave, focusing primarily on whether paternity leave-taking increases father involvement.
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fathers’ time off of work after a birth & length of time off are positively associated with relationship quality one year later & with trajectories of relationship quality over the first five years
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Decline of Cash Assistance and the Well-Being of Poor Households with Children
ABSTRACT. Since the early 1990s, the social safety net for families with children in the United States has undergone an epochal transformation. Aid to poor wor
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Decline of Cash welfare Assistance increases household food insecurity & public school child homelessness
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Legislative Seniority in the Partisan Congress* - Taylor - - Social Science Quarterly - Wiley Online Library
Matt Grossmann
senior members of Congress have higher legislative effectiveness because they are able to attract support for their legislation through relationships cultivated over time, visible in co-sponsorship networks
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Get the Data Get GSS Data | NORC
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Data released today for 2 major social science public opinion surveys:
General Social Survey:
gss.norc.org/getthedata
CCES Common Content:
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…
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