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Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 22-130, janvier 2022
Many questions in political science require knowing not only what voters want (pref-erence orientation) but also how much they want it (preference intensity). In this paper, we assess two methods for measuring individual differences in preference intensity. One method — issue importance items —...
Pascal Bégout et Jesus Ildefonso Diaz
vol. 308, janvier 2022, p. 252–285
Jay J. Van Bavel, Aleksandra Cichocka, Valerio Capraro, Hallgeir Sjåstad et Jane Conway
vol. 13, n° 517, janvier 2022
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors that associated with...
Alice Fabre, Thomas Planès, Scott Delbecq, Gilles Lafforgue et Valérie Budinger
janvier 2022
Guy Alexander Cooper, Ming Liu, Jorge Peña et Stuart Andrew West
vol. 13, n° 195, janvier 2022
In bacteria and other microorganisms, the cells within a population often show extreme phenotypic variation. Different species use different mechanisms to determine how distinct phenotypes are allocated between individuals, including coordinated, random, and genetic determination. However, it is...
n° 22-1297, janvier 2022
Augustin Tapsoba
n° 22-1295, janvier 2022
Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location of conflict events from violence history data. It adapts the methodology developed in Tapsoba (...
James E. Alt, Amalie Jensen, Horacio Larreguy, David D. Lassen et John Marshall
n° 22-1292, janvier 2022
While social pressure is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that informa-tion passed between social ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and voting behav-ior is limited. We investigate whether information about unemployment shocks dif-fuses through networks of strong and mostly weak...
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Christian Ponce de Leon et Sebastian Thieme
n° 22-129, janvier 2022
A longstanding question is whether policy uncertainty reduces private fixed investment in developing democracies. Yet studying the question empirically has proven challenging given that economic activity can cause as well as result from policy uncertainty. We investigate this issue within the...
Péter Bayer, Joel Brown, Johan Dubbeldam et Mark Broom
n° 22-1291, janvier 2022