Civil liberties in times of crisis

M Alsan, L Braghieri, S Eichmeyer, MJ Kim… - American Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploying representative surveys involving around …

Seeded topic models in digital archives: Analyzing interpretations of immigration in Swedish newspapers, 1945–2019

M Hurtado Bodell, M Magnusson… - … Methods & Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital
text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised extension to …

COVID‐19‐related anxieties do not decrease support for liberal democracy

V Anghel, J SCHULTE‐CLOOS - European journal of political …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic led to widespread fear among the population. Early studies
suggested that this resulted in exclusionary attitudes and increased support for …

Ethnic diversity and political trust at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

D Schraff, S Hegewald - European Political Science Review, 2024 - cambridge.org
Current research faces challenges in explaining how contextual factors account for
variations in the rally effect in political trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. While systematic …

Committed democrats? How trade-off specific cues affect expressions of support for liberal and democratic principles

L Isermann, L Gärtner, H Schoen - Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2024 - Springer
Democratic stability depends on citizens' willingness to support the application of liberal and
democratic principles. Yet recent experimental research leaves doubt whether the high …

Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing the Swedish Understanding of Immigration, 1945--2019

Sociologists increasingly discuss the need for more formal ways of measuring meaning from
digital text archives. We bring to attention the seeded topic model, a semi-supervised and …