Matt Grossmann
Michigan State political scientist; on sabbatical at MIT/Harvard; author; director; fellow; contributor; #SocSciResearch
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Are More Moderate Democrats More Electable?
Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight 3h 1 tweets
I have a dilemma for you, dear reader. I have a righteous little bulletpoint-sized rant to make about ill-informed media coverage of polling in the recent Austr…
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Matt Grossmann Not much sign major candidates are focusing disproportionately on IA vs NH, though Warren & Beto are holding more events in both & Sanders has been to IA more so far: 3h
Climate Politics/Capitol Light Issue 2
Resilience.org - Resilience 3h 1 tweets
The December-January partial shutdown of the government is still fresh on the minds of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Is a deal close?
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Matt Grossmann A lot happening on climate-related spending behind the scenes in Congress (but now it’s easy to say more $ for everything); if Democrats really have newly prioritized climate over other domestic policy concerns, it should show up in the budget negotiations 3h
The Individual-Level Origins of Congressional Corruption Scandals - Andrew J. Taylor, Michael D. Cobb, 2019
SAGE Journals 10h 1 tweets
To date, the literature on corruption scandals in Congress focuses exclusively on their consequences. Using theory that directs analyses of the causes of corrup...
Matt Grossmann Congressional Corruption Scandals are associated with cultivated relationships, positions of power, districts with perceived tolerance for corruption, & racial minority legislators #SocSciResearch 10h
The Party Goes On: U.S. Young Adults’ Partisanship and Political Engagement Across Age and Historical Time - Laura Wray-Lake, Erin H. Arruda, David A. Hopkins, 2019
SAGE Journals 10h 1 tweets
This article examines effects of political party affiliation on U.S. young adults’ political participation across age and historical time. Using national U.S. l...
Matt Grossmann Political engagement & partisanship declined for young adults from 1976-2003. Partisanship had a consistent positive effect on electoral participation across age & cohort #SocSciResearch 10h
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny: Michael Tomasello: 9780674980853: Amazon.com: Books
Amazon.com 435d 3 tweets
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Matt Grossmann Best new human evolution book: "Becoming Human" by Michael Tomasello Developmental psych using ape-child & cross-cultural comparisons Kids to age 7 uniquely develop shared intentionality for cooperation, cultural learning, prosociality, norms, & morality 12h
Children can foster climate change concern among their parents
Nature Climate Change 17d 5 tweets
Public concern about climate change is difficult to motivate. This study finds an increase in climate change concern among parents after their middle school-aged children participated in a climate change school curriculum.
Matt Grossmann An educational intervention built climate change concern among parents indirectly through their middle school-aged children, especially conservative parents & fathers. Daughters were especially effective #SocSciResearch 15h
Links Between Users' Online Social Network Homogeneity, Ambiguity Tolerance, and Estimated Public Support for Own Opinions | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 17h 1 tweets
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Matt Grossmann People with more homogeneous online social networks are more likely to overestimate public support for their own opinions #SocSciResearch 17h
Contracts, Agency Vulnerability, and the Allocation of Federal Funds - Stuart Kasdin, Luona Lin, 2019
SAGE Journals 17h 1 tweets
Legislators have the potential for credit claiming from agency spending in a congressional district only when the awarded contracts or grants are sufficiently l...
Matt Grossmann federal agencies responded to the 2006 election by allocating larger contracts to Democratic districts, especially those agencies whose programs received lower scores on the administration’s Program Assessment Rating Tool #SocSciResearch 17h
How Medicaid and Obamacare Drive Voting
Niskanen Center 21h 2 tweets
Improving Policy, Advancing Liberty
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Matt Grossmann How Medicaid & Obamacare drive voting finds Medicaid mobilizes voters, if it’s generous & well-run by states & localities finds Obamacare helps Dems, but a late price hike helped Trump Listen to new #ScienceOfPolitics podcast 21h
Matt Grossmann on How Policy Change Happens
The Politics Guys 24h 2 tweets
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks with political scientist Matt Grossmann, Director of Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social …
Matt Grossmann I was the guest on The Politics Guys podcast this week, interviewed about my book, Artists of The Possible; Governing Networks & American Policy Change Since 1945, about broad trends in US policy & the centrality of insider coalitions. Listen 24h
Who White Democrats Vote For In 2020 Could Be Shaped By Why They Think Clinton Lost
FiveThirtyEight 24h 2 tweets
Every election is followed by an attempt to explain its outcome. One of the more common explanations of the 2016 presidential election was that Hillary Clinton …
Matt Grossmann Reading a story blaming Clinton’s loss on an identity politics focus led white Democratic women to be less likely to favor a women presidential candidate & more likely to favor a generalist economic focus over one focused on discrimination 27h
Intuition, Deliberation, and Cooperation: Further Meta-Analytic Evidence from 91 Experiments on Pure Cooperation by David G. Rand :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 6d 2 tweets
What is the role of intuitive versus deliberative cognitive processing in human cooperation? The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) stipulates that (i) intuitio
Collective existential threat mediates White population decline’s effect on defensive reactions - Hui Bai, Christopher M. Federico, 2019
SAGE Journals 48h 2 tweets
We present evidence from two studies probing into whether perceived numerical decline in the White population translate into collective existential threat to Wh...
Political Booms, Financial Crises | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 0, No ja
Journals.uchicago.edu 36h 1 tweets
Matt Grossmann Political booms, reflected in governments’ increasing popularity & stability, predict financial crises beyond credit booms, but only in emerging economies #SocSciResearch 36h
Detecting Historical Inequality Patterns: A Replication of Thomas Piketty's Wealth Concentration Estimates for the United Kingdom* - Magness - - Social Science Quarterly - Wiley Online Library
Onlinelibrary.wiley.com 36h 1 tweets
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Matt Grossmann Piketty’s account of changing UK wealth concentrations is unreliable for interpreting recent patterns; an alternative interpretation of the source data points to a century-long L-shaped pattern #SocSciResearch 36h
Conflating Temporal Advancement and Epistemic Advancement: The Progression Bias in Judgment and Decision Making
SAGE Journals 49d 3 tweets
When seeking out the truth about a certain aspect of the world, people frequently conduct several inquiries successively over a time span. Later inquiries usual...
Matt Grossmann Even without meaningful differences between earlier & later inquiries, people regard findings from later inquiries as closer to the truth than earlier ones #SocSciResearch 38h
Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity
Journals.plos.org 8d 4 tweets
Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility is a desirable property of scientific discovery....
Matt Grossmann scientific process may not converge to truth even if results are reproducible; variety of research strategies represented in the scientific population, scientists’ choices of methodology, the complexity of truth, & the strength of signal all contribute 38h
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Nature Human Behaviour 52d 7 tweets
An experiment shows that complex technologies need not result from our superior causal reasoning abilities but, instead, can emerge from the accumulation of improvements across generations without requiring understanding of how these technologies...
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Matt Grossmann Because people produce simplistic models on salient dimension, rather than create multidimensional causal theories, complex technologies need not evolve from better causal reasoning but can emerge from accumulation of small improvements across generations 38h
QU Poll Release Detail
QU Poll 155d 7 tweets
Biden Has Top Score Among Dem Presidential Contenders, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; U.S. Voters Say 3-1 Any President Should Face Indictment
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Matt Grossmann Q poll shows candidate favorability dropping since December: Biden: 53-33% in Dec to 49-39 now Sanders: 44-42% in Dec to 41-48 now Harris, Beto, Warren, Booker also all underwater 42h
QU Poll Release Detail
QU Poll 44h 15 tweets
Good Feelings On Economy Don't Help Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Biden Is Only Contender With Positive Score
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Matt Grossmann Q poll shows candidate favorability dropping since December: Biden: 53-33% in Dec to 49-39 now Sanders: 44-42% in Dec to 41-48 now Harris, Beto, Warren, Booker also all underwater 42h