Kristóf, Luca
Published in
Politics in Central Europe
The paper deals with the political aspects of the perception of science. The relevance of the topic is underpinned, among other things, by the public policy significance of trust in science and the links between national science and national identity. The literature relates the perception of science to ideological positions on the one hand, and to ...
Losada Maestre, Roberto Sánchez Medero, Rubén
Published in
Psychological reports
Several studies have shown that exposure to colors affects cognitive and affective processes. In this paper, we tried to find if colors affect the perception of political messages and activate partisan biases. We focus our study on the Spanish cultural environment. In a prestudy (n = 991), participants identified red as progressive, blue as conserv...
Derreumaux, Yrian
A core principle of deliberative democracy posits that information exchange enhances the accuracy of group beliefs. However, in the face of unprecedented access to both first-hand empirical information and second-hand estimates from social networks, partisans often disagree on fundamental facts supported by data. In this dissertation, I integrate r...
Wise, Geoffrey
Published in
Statistics, Politics and Policy
The U.S. Electoral College’s winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes creates a high susceptibility to disputes and errors, but past reform attempts have glossed over their likely disruptions to power balances among states and between the two political parties. This gap is filled by connecting pragmatic models of power shifts and election...
Bowes, Shauna M Costello, Thomas H Lee, Caroline McElroy-Heltzel, Stacey Davis, Don E Lilienfeld, Scott O
Published in
Personality & social psychology bulletin
In recent years, an upsurge of polarization has been a salient feature of political discourse in America. A small but growing body of research has examined the potential relevance of intellectual humility (IH) to political polarization. In the present investigation, we extend this work to political myside bias, testing the hypothesis that IH is ass...
Bullock, John G. Lenz, Gabriel
Published in
Annual Review of Political Science
If citizens are to hold politicians accountable for their performance, they probably must have some sense of the relevant facts, such as whether the economy is growing. In surveys, Democrats and Republicans often claim to hold different beliefs about these facts, which raises normative concerns. However, it is not clear that their divergent survey ...
Coe, Chelsea Mariko
With the rise of social media and fast-paced news, the American electorate is inundated with information now more than ever. One of the consequences of the increase in technology is the proliferation of fake news. Fake news is defined as “fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or intent” (Laz...
Haselmayer, Martin Wagner, Markus Meyer, Thomas M
Published in
Political communication
Parties try to shape media coverage in ways that are favorable to them, but what determines whether media outlets pick up and report on party messages? Based on content analyses of 1,496 party press releases and 6,512 media reports from the 2013 Austrian parliamentary election campaign, we show that media coverage of individual party messages is in...
