I have a new paper titled ‘Personal politics? Health care policies, personal experiences and government attitudes’ in the new issue of Journal of European Social Policy. Here is the abstract: Do personal experiences matter for public attitudes towards the role of the government? In the domain of healthcare, I argue that policies change the salience […]
Category: science
“This letter closes the question”
Here is the beginning of an abstract from a recent study published in the American Political Science Review: Larger protests are more likely to lead to policy changes than small ones are, but whether or not attendance estimates provided in news or generated from social media are biased is an open question. This letter closes […]
25 interesting facts #5
101. Claude Monet’s late works were the result of cataracts and not conscious experimentation with a more expressionistic style (Gruener 2015) 102. There are about ~40,000 virus species in mammals, including ~10,000 viruses with zoonotic potential (Carlson et al. 2019) 103. People mispredict the time course of their own creativity (Lucas and Nordgren 2020) 104. […]
Honesty may still pay off in politics
A new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that politicians who are averse to lying have lower reelection rates. If true, this finding has substantial implications for whether politicians with ambitions of getting (re)elected should lie or not. Accordingly, I found it extra relevant to read this manuscript carefully (in contrast […]
25 interesting facts #4
76. Wealthier Americans have per capita footprints ∼25% higher than those of lower-income residents, primarily due to larger homes (Goldstein et al. 2020) 77. Having a baby the week before an election reduces turnout by 26 percentage points for mothers and 13 percentage points for fathers (Bhatti et al. 2019) 78. Early investments in state […]