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Adam Cayton

@acayton.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of West Florida

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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Chernow’s Hamilton is both excellent and has a spectacular account of the writing of and strategy behind the Federalist Papers
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Another cool finding from our paper is that by matching constituents’ emotions members of Congress allow party control of the presidency to set the emotional tone of legislative communication more than anything happening in Congress.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A survey experiment testing the effects of environmentalist and national security frames yielded null results for all partisan groups.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The GOP is not united on climate change, with some subtle dissent from the party line in newsletters. GOP dissenters tend to represent districts with military bases threatened by natural disasters.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We find that when Democrats discuss the issue they always take a "pro climate" position, but whether they discuss it depends on public opinion.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @profbcrisher.bsky.social and I study House members messages to constituents about climate change, and conduct a survey experiment to see if different frames work.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
mcdc.missouri.edu/applications... This should do the trick.
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Geocorr 2022 - MCDC
Generate reports or CSV files documenting a wide array of U.S. geographic entities such as cities, census tracts, metro areas, ZIP codes, etc. as used in Census 2020 and later in the decade. Output ca...
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I also teach this and have the same experience but it’s a fun challenge. How about “The Constitution gives the chamber majority the power to write the rules and they use it to get what they want.”
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
As a reader I would prefer to see a balanced sample, but note the findings with an unbalanced sample and explain the selection problem that might have produced the differences.
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Adam Cayton @acayton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is a great paper. Combined with this paper of mine from a few years ago an interesting story emerges (I study tools and the ideological space rather than repeals and do not measure public opinion). Linked below in case you’re interested onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Policy Substance of Legislative Ideology
Ideological differences in Congress are often presented as disagreement over what the government should do, but no study has systematically measured the policy instruments in bills. This article uses...
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