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

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Democrats and Republicans clearly dislike one another. Yet, scholars debate whether policy
disagreement or partisan identity, per se, drives interparty animus. Past studies suggest the …

Conjoint survey experiments have become a popular method for analyzing multidimensional
preferences in political science. If properly implemented, conjoint experiments can obtain …

At conferences, at seminars, and on political science blogs, the potential utility of
experimental methods for international relations (IR) research continues to be a hotly …

It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or
attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the …

A large and fast-growing number of studies across the social sciences use experiments to
better understand the role of race in human interactions, particularly in the American context …

Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

Survey experiments often manipulate the description of attributes in a hypothetical scenario,
with the goal of learning about those attributes' real-world effects. Such inferences rely on an …

Legislative staff link Members of Congress and their constituents, theoretically facilitating
democratic representation. Yet, little research has examined whether Congressional staff …