When it comes to knowledge of demographic facts, misinformation appears to be the norm.
Americans massively overestimate the proportions of their fellow citizens who are …

How does the context in which a person lives affect his or her political behavior? I exploit an
event in which demographic context was exogenously changed, leading to a significant …

In this article, the authors develop a model in which they depict individuals' support for same-
sex marriage as a function of several clusters of independent variables, including symbolic …

Survey questions about quantities offer a number of advantages over more common
qualitative questions. However, concerns about survey respondents' abilities to accurately …

How does interpersonal exposure to immigrants influence citizens' opinions about
immigrants? The Intergroup Contact Theory (ICT) famously predicts improved attitudes …

There is a widespread assumption by academics and commentators that negative public
attitudes to the benefits system are due to 'myths' held by the British public. However, there is …

Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are
increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the …

ABSTRACT A stereotype is a generalization about a class of people which is often used to
make probabilistic predictions about individuals within that class. Can stereotypes can be …

Innumeracy, that is, the inability to deal with numbers and provide correct estimates about
political issues, is reported to be widespread among the public. Yet, despite the recognition …

Social science interest in LGBTQI+ politics and policy has grown in the 21st century.
Likewise, the political opportunity structure for LGBTQI+ activists has changed significantly …