Matt Grossmann
Michigan State political scientist; on sabbatical at MIT/Harvard; author; director; fellow; contributor; #SocSciResearch
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Journal of Political Economy
Journals.uchicago.edu 1178d 4 tweets
The Journal of Political Economy has since 1892 presented significant research and scholarship in economic theory and practice.
Matt Grossmann educational attainment Polygenic score strongly predicts wealth at retirement beyond educational attainment & labor income, likely through a facility with complex financial decision-making #SocSciResearch 6h
Politicians Don’t Actually Care What Voters Want
Nytimes.com 7d 9 tweets
Does that statement sound too cynical? Unfortunately, the evidence supports it.
Matt Grossmann Legislators don’t respond to polling information on public policy opinion in their districts: But policy nonetheless corresponds to the relative liberalism of public opinion in states & localities: 10h
It May Not Seem That Way, but Politicians Often Do What Voters Want
Lynn Vavreck - Nytimes.com 18h 3 tweets
Data limitations once made the question hard to answer, but not anymore.
Matt Grossmann Legislators don’t respond to polling information on public policy opinion in their districts: But policy nonetheless corresponds to the relative liberalism of public opinion in states & localities: 10h
Explaining the Urban-Rural Political Divide
Niskanen Center 13h 2 tweets
Improving Policy, Advancing Liberty
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Matt Grossmann Explaining the Urban-Rural Political Divide New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast with Jonathan Rodden & ⁦⁩ on how we are divided geographically, psychologically, & economically — & how it continues to hurt the left in political competition 12h
The Party or the Purse? Unequal Representation in the US Senate | American Political Science Review
Cambridge Core 43h 2 tweets
The Party or the Purse? Unequal Representation in the US Senate - JEFFREY R. LAX, JUSTIN H. PHILLIPS, ADAM ZELIZER
Matt Grossmann Rich influence is overstated & contingent on partisanship; party trumps class opinion when senators take sides. The rich get what they want more often from Republicans (not Dems), but only if Republican constituents side with the rich #SocSciResearch APSR 43h
Are Democrats Really the Party of the Poor? Partisanship, Class, and Representation in the U.S. Senate - Cory Maks-Solomon, Elizabeth Rigby, 2019
SAGE Journals 43h 1 tweets
Scholars have identified partisan differences in policy representation—with Republicans more often found to represent the rich, while Democrats align with the p...
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Matt Grossmann rich & poor Democrats disagree on social issues; rich & poor Republicans disagree on economic issues. On these issues, senators of both parties better represent the preferences of the affluent in their party #SocSciResearch 43h
Trump Campaign Invests Big in Small Donors, and Reaps Rewards
Kenneth P. Vogel, Maggie Haberman - Nytimes.com 47h 1 tweets
Finance reports show that the president’s fund-raising committees raised $68 million in the past three months, more than one-third of which came from small donors.
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Matt Grossmann Clinton outspent Trump $586-351 million in 2016; Democrats are unlikely to retain that spending advantage in 2020 as Republicans find more small donors & their large & access-oriented donors return 47h
Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
Dhrumil Mehta - FiveThirtyEight 54h 1 tweets
Sen. Kamala Harris got a lot of media attention in the days immediately after the first Democratic debate and in the week that followed, putting her just behind…
Matt Grossmann Harris news coverage was down 14% last week after her huge post-debate bounce: & that could be stalling her rise: But top 4 are still breaking away 54h
Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature
Nature 15d 17 tweets
Natural language processing algorithms applied to three million materials science abstracts uncover relationships between words, material compositions and properties, and predict potential new thermoelectric materials.
Matt Grossmann Text-based data mining of past scientific publications can predict new applications & suggest new research connections (materials science) 58h
Pope Breaking News: The Effect of TV Coverage on Electoral Success and Financial Markets by Giulia Caprini :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 3d 1 tweets
This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the impact of politicians' TV coverage in campaign on their vote shares. Two weeks before the 2013 Italian
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Matt Grossmann Berlusconi lost the 2013 Italian election because the Pope resigned 2 weeks before it, dramatically reducing television coverage of politics. That reduced Berlusconi's TV exposure (-26 % points), causing a vote share loss of 2 % points #SocSciResearch 3d
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Tufts.app.box.com 3d 1 tweets
Who Wants to Make America Great Again? Understanding Evangelical Support for Donald Trump | Politics and Religion
Cambridge Core 5d 2 tweets
Who Wants to Make America Great Again? Understanding Evangelical Support for Donald Trump - Michele F. Margolis
Matt Grossmann white evangelical support for Trump was even higher with belief measures than self-identification or denomination. It is part of their broader trend to Republican voting, even for non-traditional candidates, due to negative partisanship #SocSciResearch 3d
Spatial Voting Meets Spatial Policy Positions: An Experimental Appraisal by Tanja Artiga González, Georg D. Granic :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 3d 1 tweets
We develop and validate a novel experimental design that builds a bridge between experimental research on the theory of spatial voting and the literature on mea
Matt Grossmann Voters respond to candidate statements with spatial proximity voting, when spatial policy positions are inferred from text-only statements #SocSciResearch 3d
Revisiting the brown-utility heuristic: a comparison of Latino linked fate in 2006 and 2016
Taylor & Francis 3d 1 tweets
(2019). Revisiting the brown-utility heuristic: a comparison of Latino linked fate in 2006 and 2016. Politics, Groups, and Identities. Ahead of Print.
Matt Grossmann predictors of linked fate among Latinos changed between 2006 & 2016, with experience of discrimination now playing an important role #SocSciResearch 3d
Conformity to the descriptive norms of people with opposing political or social beliefs
Journals.plos.org 3d 1 tweets
The descriptive norm effect refers to findings that individuals will tend to prefer behaving certain ways when they know that other people behave similarly. An open question is whether individuals will still conform to other people’s behaviour when...
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Matt Grossmann informing participants that an action was unpopular amongst the other party's members led them to shift away from that action, suggesting a general desire to conform with others may outpower ingroup vs outgroup mentality #SocSciResearch 3d
Person-positivity bias, social category labels, and attitudes toward gays and lesbians - Katherine T. McCabe, 2019
SAGE Journals 3d 1 tweets
This study assesses how social category labels influence public opinion toward gay and lesbian attitude objects. The results provide some support for the existe...
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Matt Grossmann Survey respondents express significantly colder feeling thermometer scores toward the clinical construct “homosexuality” than the person descriptor “gays and lesbians” #SocSciResearch 3d
The Influence of Home-State Reputation and Public Opinion on Federal Circuit Court Judges | Journal of Law and Courts: Ahead of Print
Journals.uchicago.edu 3d 1 tweets
Matt Grossmann state public opinion influences federal circuit court judges, in part because they change along with society & in part because they care about their reputations in their home states #SocSciResearch 3d
Who is the agenda setter? Examining the intermedia agenda-setting effect between Twitter and newspapers
Taylor & Francis 3d 1 tweets
(2019). Who is the agenda setter? Examining the intermedia agenda-setting effect between Twitter and newspapers. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Ahead of Print.
Matt Grossmann Twitter's ephemeral breaking news influence: Newspapers drove Twitter more than the reverse before Trump's Paris agreement withdrawal. Twitter influenced newspapers more for 5 days afterward; then newspapers regained unidirectional impact #SocSciResearch 3d
Polls–Trends: Racial Attitudes in America
OUP Academic 3d 1 tweets
ABSTRACT. Racial attitudes are multidimensional, and the corresponding picture we get from survey data on racial attitudes is complex. Tracing the results of m
Matt Grossmann Although many racial attitudes are liberalizing, explanations for group inequalities & support for some policy interventions has stagnated #SocSciResearch 3d
Compound Political Identity: How Partisan and Racial Identities Overlap and Reinforce by Sean Westwood, Erik Peterson :: SSRN
Papers.ssrn.com 3d 1 tweets
The standard view conceives of partisan identity as a combination of other social identities that have sorted into alignment over a long time horizon. We develo
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Matt Grossmann partisanship & race are so inseparable triggering 1 identity also activates the other. In behavioral game experiments, changes in affect towards racial out-groups also shift behavioral & attitudinal measures of out-party affect & vice versa #SocSciResearch 3d