Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Immigrant populations in many developed democracies have grown rapidly, and so too has
an extensive literature on natives' attitudes toward immigration. This research has …

Importance The development of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine has
progressed at unprecedented speed. Widespread public uptake of the vaccine is crucial to …

People of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent are categorized as non-White
in many Western countries but counted as White on the US Census. Yet, it is not clear that …

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence have come concerns about how
machines will make moral decisions, and the major challenge of quantifying societal …

Is support for democracy in the United States robust enough to deter undemocratic behavior
by elected politicians? We develop a model of the public as a democratic check and …

Conjoint analysis is a common tool for studying political preferences. The method
disentangles patterns in respondents' favorability toward complex, multidimensional objects …

A well-functioning democracy requires a degree of mutual respect and a willingness to talk
across political divides. Yet numerous studies have shown that many electorates are …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, sizeable groups of unvaccinated people persist even in
countries with high vaccine access. As a consequence, vaccination became a controversial …

Politician characteristic regression discontinuity (PCRD) designs leveraging close elections
are widely used to isolate effects of an elected politician characteristic on downstream …