Matt Grossmann
Michigan State political scientist & director; fellow; contributor; New Book: Red State Blues #SocSciResearch
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The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in international development in historical perspective
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This article brings a historical perspective to explain the recent dissemination of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as the new “gold standard” method to assess international development projects....
Matt Grossmann recent rise of randomized controlled trials in development was 2nd wave; succeeded by aligning causal & behavioral trends within economics with sympathetic philanthropy & smaller interventions; 1st wave depended on cautious governments, larger/longer scale 13h
The Big Fib about the Rich and Taxes
AIER 60h 3 tweets
The primary driver of Saez and Zucman’s claims about the tax rates on the wealthy do not reflect a regressive shift over time. They arise almost entirely out of unconventional and contested adjustments to their previous numbers.
Matt Grossmann More critiques of new tax progressivety estimates: Assumptions appear chosen to match preferred results: - Corp taxes on shareholders but employer payroll on employees - Not including transfer income, but including taxes paid on it 15h
Matthew Lilly on Saez and Zucman
tylercowen - Marginal REVOLUTION 16h 3 tweets
From an email: The eye-catching result here is they have consumption taxes being *sharply* regressive, e.g. 12% for the lowest income group. I’m not aware of any US state that has state + average local sales rates tax that high. And lots of goods...
Matt Grossmann More critiques of new tax progressivety estimates: Assumptions appear chosen to match preferred results: - Corp taxes on shareholders but employer payroll on employees - Not including transfer income, but including taxes paid on it 15h
The Scalability, Efficiency and Complexity of Universities and Colleges: A New Lens for Assessing the Higher Educational System
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The growing need for affordable and accessible higher education is a major global challenge for the 21st century. Consequently, there is a need to develop a deeper understanding of the functionality and taxonomy of universities and colleges and, in...
Success in books: predicting book sales before publication
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Reading remains a preferred leisure activity fueling an exceptionally competitive publishing market: among more than three million books published each year, only a tiny fraction are read widely. It is largely unpredictable, however, which book will...
Matt Grossmann Predicting book sales with topic, publishing house, words, & author characteristics #SocSciResearch Top-selling non-fiction books are released in October: 16h
Teachers’ Union Power in a Budget Crunch: Lasting Ramifications of Differential Spending Responses to the Great Recession - Walker A. Swain, Christopher Redding,
SAGE Journals 28h 1 tweets
In the wake of the 2007 housing crash and subsequent economic recession, state legislatures across the country faced substantial declines in revenues, and by 20...
Matt Grossmann States with weaker teachers unions made deeper (lasting) cuts to education spending in the Great Recession #SocSciResearch 28h
Polls and Elections: Abandoning the Ground Game? Field Organization in the 2016 Election
Wiley Online Library 5d 3 tweets
I examine the organizational and voter contact strategies of the presidential campaigns in the 2016 election, finding that Hillary Clinton opened many more field offices than Donald Trump. Both Clint...
Matt Grossmann Both Clinton & Trump invested less in field operations than their predecessors, avoiding areas of opponent strength & swing areas. Neither held a clear advantage in voter contact; effects of field offices were smaller than in prior cycles #SocSciResearch 30h
Populism and Democratic Theory
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Commentators routinely describe “populism” as vague. Some argue that the early US populists, who coined the modern usage, were not populists. We disagree and identify this common conceptual core: the “people” in a moral battle against “elites.” The...
Matt Grossmann Core of populism is the “people” in a moral battle against “elites” Associated with homogeneity & exclusivity, direct rule, nationalism, a single leader, vilification of out-groups, & impatience with deliberation Annual review 30h
American Public Opinion on Immigration: Nativist, Polarized, or Ambivalent?
Wiley Online Library 30h 1 tweets
For Dauvergne (2016), one consequence of the “end of settler societies” is nativism, or what she calls “mean‐spirited politics”: anti‐immigrant, anti‐Muslim, anti‐Multiculturalism. This accords with ...
Matt Grossmann Americans hold positive views about immigration, are often not consistent over time or with their predispositions, & have become more pro‐immigrant in recent years, with Republicans becoming more positive but at a slower pace #SocSciResearch 30h
Context matters: political polarization on Twitter from a comparative perspective - Aleksandra Urman,
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This article explores the issue of political polarization on social media. It shows that the intensity of polarization on Twitter varies greatly from one countr...
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Matt Grossmann Polarization on Twitter is the highest in two-party systems with plurality electoral rules & lowest in multi-party systems with proportional voting #SocSciResearch 30h
Unpacking Representation in State Immigration Policy: Latino Composition, White Racial Threat, and Legislator Partisanship - James M. Avery, Jeffrey A. Fine,
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Most research studying minority representation concludes that minorities enjoy better representation when they constitute a larger share of a constituency, but ...
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Matt Grossmann Latino composition has no effect on immigration voting among Democratic legislators. But Republicans are more likely to vote to restrict immigration as Latinos comprise a larger share of their district #SocSciResearch 31h
Buying Happiness in an Unequal World: Rank of Income More Strongly Predicts Well-Being in More Unequal Countries - Lucía Macchia, Anke C. Plagnol, Nattavudh Powdthavee,
SAGE Journals 34h 1 tweets
Does income rank matter more for well-being in more unequal countries? Using more than 160,000 observations from 24 countries worldwide, we replicate previous s...
Matt Grossmann The association between income rank & an individual’s well-being is significantly larger in countries with high income inequality #SocSciResearch 34h
“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader - Stefanie Sprong, Jolanda Jetten, Zhechen Wang, Kim Peters, Frank Mols, Maykel Verkuyten, Brock Bastian, Amarina Ariyanto, Frédérique Autin, Nadia Ay
SAGE Journals 34h 1 tweets
Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis t...
Matt Grossmann higher inequality enhances the wish for a strong leader #SocSciResearch 34h
Who Will Win The Fourth Democratic Debate?
Aaron Bycoffe - FiveThirtyEight 5d 6 tweets
How Democratic voters feel about the presidential candidates before and after the fourth primary debate of the 2020 election cycle
Matt Grossmann Any & Pete made (at least temporary) gains at the debate, but neither frontrunner lost ground 52h
Issues Voters See the Race Differently From Those Who Prioritize Beating Trump
Laura Bronner - FiveThirtyEight 52h 1 tweets
If you had to choose between a candidate with whom you agree on the issues and a candidate who could beat President Trump, who would you prefer? We posed this q…
Matt Grossmann Any & Pete made (at least temporary) gains at the debate, but neither frontrunner lost ground 52h
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Maria Petrova, Ruben Enikolopov :: SSRN
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How do the internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature focusing especially on
Cross-ideological coordination by private interests: Evidence from mortgage market regulation under Dodd-Frank | Business and Politics
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Cross-ideological coordination by private interests: Evidence from mortgage market regulation under Dodd-Frank - Sanford C. Gordon, Howard Rosenthal
Matt Grossmann Some Dodd-Frank weakening reflected a diverse coalition of housing, community, & civil rights groups, backed by an ideologically diverse swath of legislators, rather than capture by regulated big lenders #SocSciResearch 60h
‎The Political Orphanage: 15 Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann on Apple Podcasts
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‎Show The Political Orphanage, Ep 15 Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann - Oct 16, 2019
Matt Grossmann I enjoyed talking to on The Political Orphanage podcast about Asymmetric Politics. Andrew also gets a chance to use his good Bernie impression. Listen now 3d
‎The Political Orphanage on Apple Podcasts
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‎News · 2019
How the Tea Party Captured the GOP
University of Chicago Press 3d 1 tweets
The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its...