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Impact of Menu on Choices: Choosing What You Want Or Deciding What You Should Want

In Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely discusses the clever (ex)-subscription menu of The Economist that purportedly manipulates people to subscribe to a pricier plan. In an experiment based on the menu, Ariely shows that addition of an item to the menu (that very few choose) can cause preference reversal over

24 Sep 2011 2 min read

Elite Lawyers!

(Based on data from the 111th Congress) Law is the most popular degree at the Capitol Hill (it has been the case for a long time). Nearly 52% of the senators, and 36% of congressional representatives have a degree in law. There are some differences across parties and across houses,

11 Jul 2011 1 min read

Does Children's Sex Cause Partisanship?

More women identify themselves as Democrats than as Republicans. The disparity is yet greater among single women. It is possible (perhaps even likely) that this difference in partisan identification is due to (perceived) policy positions of Republicans and Democrats. Now let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine a couple about

26 May 2011 2 min read

Correlation Between Social Welfare and Cultural Preferences by Party

Source: 2004 ANES. Cultural and Social Welfare Preferences are from Confirmatory Factor Analysis over relevant items.

23 May 2011 1 min read

Sort of Sorted but Definitely Cold

By now, students of American Politics have all become accustomed to seeing graphs of DW-NOMINATE scores showing ideological polarization in Congress. Here are the equivalent graphs (we assume two dimensions) at the mass level. Data are from the 2004 ANES. Social and Cultural Preferences are from Confirmatory Factor Analysis over

18 May 2011 1 min read

On (Modest) Differences In Racial Distribution of Voting Eligible Population and Registered Voters in California

Each election cycle, many hands are waved, and spit is launched in the air when the topic of registration rates of Latinos (and other minorities) comes up. Indeed, the registration rates of Latinos substantially lag those of Whites. In California, the percentage of eligible Latinos who are registered is 62.

13 Apr 2011 3 min read

Measuring Partisan Affect Coldly

Outside of the variety of ways of explicitly asking people how they feel about another group — feeling thermometers, like/dislike scales, favorability ratings — explicit measures asked using mechanisms designed to overcome or attenuate social desirability concerns — bogus pipeline, ACASI — and a plethora of implicit measures — affect misattribution, IAT — there exist

24 Mar 2011 1 min read

Remembering Reagan

08 Mar 2011 1 min read

Some Potential Negatives of Elite Polarization

Growing ideological distance between the parties has produced clearer choices. This added clarity has resulted in improved propensity among voters to make ideologically consistent choices (Levendusky 2010). This is seen as a positive. However, there may be some negative normative implications as well. If parties have moved away from the

18 Feb 2011 1 min read

Institutional Distrust

It is sometimes assumed that high levels of institutional distrust in America are peculiar to it. So much so that a variety of theories have been offered to ‘explain’ this peculiarity including, but not limited to, elite polarization, income inequality, polarized media, etc. Empirical support for the ‘American exceptionalism’ however

25 Jan 2011 1 min read

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