Matt Grossmann
Michigan State political scientist & @ippsr director; @niskanencenter fellow; @fivethirtyeight contributor; New Book: Red State Blues #SocSciResearch
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Partisanship, White Racial Resentment, and State Support for Higher Education
(2020). Partisanship, White Racial Resentment, and State Support for Higher Education. The Journal of Higher Education. Ahead of Print.
Why Trump Persists
Voters are less tolerant, less empathetic and less interested in integrity than many political analysts thought.
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Expression of liberal values may require less instinctual responses more subject to social desirability bias, associated with more ambivalence, & less apt to be highlighted in times of crisis
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Sleep, health, and human capital: Evidence from daylight saving time
Chronic sleep deprivation is a significant and understudied public health issue. Using BRFSS survey data from the United States and an administrative …
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setting clocks back by one hour in the middle of the night for daylight savings significantly extends people's sleep & sharply reduced hospital admissions for 4 days after the time shift
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Low replicability can support robust and efficient science
There has been much concern about the “replication crisis” in psychology and other disciplines. Here the authors show that an efficient solution to the crisis would not insist on replication before publication, and would instead encourage...
Painting lines on roads saves lives
Simple things can reduce deaths in traffic accidents
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Painting center & edge lines on roads was a simple innovation supported by research evidence & widely applied to save lives
(We underestimate many of these, often because they seem obvious after completed)
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Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession
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The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor’s degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019
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Small Dollar Donors and the Evolving Democratic Party
Increasing grassroots, small dollar donations has long been appealing to campaign finance reformers. Still, important questions remain. Are small donors becoming more common, especially in the Democratic Party? Are small donors really different from...
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The Democratic Party has attracted a growing share of money from small dollar donors; they are more demographically representative but share similar ideological extremism as large donors. female & extreme candidates are benefitting
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Evidence of Partisan Agenda Fragmentation in the American Public, 1959–2015
Abstract . This research examines the extent to which partisan agenda fragmentation is occurring within the American public. Though numerous scholars of public
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The American public’s issue agenda has fragmented on a large number of issues, both in the level of attention & in shifts in attention that partisans accord to issues of the day
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The Twitter Bot That Defies Polarization
Only 23 percent of adult citizens are either all liberal or all conservative across seven major issues.
Amazon.com: Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society (9780674504622): Daniel S. Milo: Books
Amazon.com: Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society (9780674504622): Daniel S. Milo: Books
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Seeing evolution as a tool of optimization is based on legacy of Darwin’s storytelling (including the creatures he emphasized & didn’t) & its translation to social theory of survival of the fittest; in real nature & society, there is plenty of satisfycing
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Socializing Democrats: Examining Asian American vote choice with evidence from a national survey
Asian Americans are increasingly voting for Democrats in national elections. High levels of Democratic vote choice among Asian Americans are notable b…
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Asian Americans are socialized into supporting Democrats because they settle in liberal metro areas, especially if socially integrated, despite high incomes, immigration from countries with communist histories, & high Evangelical Identity
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Battlefield Casualties and Ballot-Box Defeat: Did the Bush–Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White House? | PS: Political Science & Politics
Battlefield Casualties and Ballot-Box Defeat: Did the Bush–Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White House? - Douglas L. Kriner, Francis X. Shen
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Trump gained electorally in states & counties with higher rates of military casualties under Bush & Obama
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The media, voter fraud, and the U.S. 2012 elections
(2020). The media, voter fraud, and the U.S. 2012 elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Ahead of Print.
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The number of fraud cases in each state was unrelated to voter fraud news coverage, whereas battleground states & states that recently passed restrictive voting laws had more voter fraud coverage
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The Turnout Myth: Voting Rates and Partisan Outcomes in American National Elections: Daron Shaw, John Petrocik: 9780190089467: Amazon.com: Books
The Turnout Myth: Voting Rates and Partisan Outcomes in American National Elections [Daron Shaw, John Petrocik] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When voter turnout is high, Democrats have an advantage--or so the truism goes. But,...
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There’s no relationship between turnout levels & partisan outcomes in presidential, congressional, or state elections
From: “The Turnout Myth”
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PsycNET
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extreme protest actions (eg blocking highways, vandalizing property) lead people to support a movement & its central cause less, regardless of prior ideology or views on the issue, due to diminished social identification with the movement
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statements made by Donald Trump are perceived as more truthful if repeated, regardless of political affiliation
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Inferring the Policy Domains of Federal Agencies from Lobbying by Peter Bils, Richard DiSalvo :: SSRN
Federal agencies are important for the implementation of policy, yet the complex nature of agency jurisdictions has made it difficult to understand which agenci
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There are five core policy domains in federal agencies: banking and economy, environment, military and aviation, justice and civil rights, and healthcare; military agencies lean Republican & civil rights agencies lean Democratic
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What Matters to Kansas: Small Business and the Defeat of the Kansas Tax Experiment - Daniel R. Alvord,
Why would businesses advocate for a tax increase? They may take such a position, this article argues, when tax cuts threaten their long-term economic interests....
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Small business lobbied in favor of reversing the Brownback Kansas tax cuts, even on themselves, due to their negative impact
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Black Votes Count, But Do They Matter? Symbolic Empowerment and the Jackson-Obama Mobilizing Effect on Gender and Age Cohorts - Evelyn M. Simien, Sarah Cote Hampson,
Using data from the 1984–1988 National Black Election Studies as well as the 2008 and 2012 American National Election Studies, we provide a comprehensive study ...
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African American voters who preferred Jackson and Obama in the 1984 and 2008 Democratic nominating contests were more likely to proselytize, attend a campaign rally or political meeting, donate money, and wear a campaign button
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