The declarations of independents: Open‐ended survey responses and the nature of non‐identification
Abstract While many Americans identify as politically “independent,” conventional wisdom suggests most are covert partisans, especially “leaners.” However, we argue that independents exhibit distinct attitudes toward political parties. Analyzing American National Election Studies open‐ended responses from 1984 to 2020, we employ structural topic models
Maxwell B. Allamong +3 more
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An Observational Study of Political Contributions by Self-Described Otolaryngologists in the United States. [PDF]
Mitchell M +4 more
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Gaps in large language model awareness, usage, and perceptions in the United States: Evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey. [PDF]
Angrisani M +4 more
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Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) offer scalable alternatives to human experts when analyzing political texts for meaning, using natural language understanding (NLU). Qualitative NLU methods relying on human experts are severely limited by cost and scalability.
Kenneth Benoit +4 more
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Local US officials' views on the impacts and governance of AI: Evidence from 2022 and 2023 survey waves. [PDF]
Hatz S, Dreksler N, Wei K, Zhang B.
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Why are surveys struggling to estimate vote shares?
Abstract Polling in the 2020 US presidential elections significantly underestimated Trump support, calling into question the accuracy of all political surveys. Although many have speculated that this bias is due to Trump supporters refusing to respond to surveys, we have previously lacked the data to directly evaluate this theory.
Matthew Tyler +6 more
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Users' prompting strategies and ChatGPT's contextual adaptation shape conversational information-seeking experiences. [PDF]
Xue H, Oh YJ, Zhou X, Zhang X, Oxley B.
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Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments
Abstract The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence on support for leaders with authoritarian inclinations through preregistered field and survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The field
Sirianne Dahlum +4 more
wiley +1 more source
An Intersectional Analysis of Intraminority Stigma Experiences and Community Involvement Among Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Gay Men. [PDF]
Shepherd BF +4 more
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