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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 27/01/2026

Do Americans' policy priorities vary by income or education? Using millions of conjoints with almost half a million respondents, @ctausanovitch.bsky.social and I show little evidence of such variance; voter priorities are very similar! Now in print at @psrm.bsky.social bit.ly/3E1DOST

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Income, education, and policy priorities | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Income, education, and policy priorities - Volume 14 Issue 1

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Careful polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence - see e.g. brightlinewatch.org/tempered-exp..., brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-..., and www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... Unfortunately, it only takes one person with a gun to create a tragedy like what've seen today.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... We need to make the same thing happen this time.

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The July 2024 Trump assassination attempt was followed by lower in-group support for partisan violence and increased group unity | PNAS

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump led to widespread concern that the event would escalate political violence between U.S. partisans. Whil...

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 18/07/2025

There are few people as kind and inspiring as Bob was, in political science or otherwise. His dedication to his students and to the city of Houston was unparalleled, and I am lucky to be one of many who would not be where we are without him as a mentor. news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 21/05/2025

It's official -- I'll be taking my talents to Foggy Bottom this Fall! Excited to announce I've accepted an offer to join the Department of Political Science at the George Washington University as an Assistant Professor of American Politics!

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The body and blood of Christ

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Ethan Porter @ethanvporter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

‼️ Two new post-docs at GW! Both affiliated with the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics, one will be more computational, the other more experimental. Links: www.gwu.jobs/postings/119... and www.gwu.jobs/postings/119... Spread the word!

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Postdoctoral Associate

The George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP) seeks exceptional candidates for a full-time, academic research position at the rank of post-doctoral fellow. The mis...

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🏫Do income and education shape people's priorities? ➡️Contrary to conventional wisdom, @ctausanovitch.bsky.social @derekholliday.com show that income and education are not strongly associated with differences in what people care about www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Job alert! Interested in working with PRL as a postdoc next year? Apply by January 15! We offer the opportunity to collaborate on and lead projects related to democratic attitudes, elite behavior, and more! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How did American attitudes toward democracy shift with the election? Our final Path to 2024 report shows substantive changes in perceptions of accuracy, trust, and resignation toward democratic backsliding. Read the full report: prlpublic.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/reports/Elec...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The attempted assassination of president Trump decreased support for partisan violence and did not increase polarization according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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The July 2024 Trump assassination attempt was followed by lower in-group support for partisan violence and increased group unity | PNAS

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump led to widespread concern that the event would escalate political violence between U.S. partisans. Whil...

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Now published in PNAS! We had a survey in the field at the time of the first assassination attempt on Trump. We found that Rs became significantly less supportive of partisan violence and had increased in-party affect. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 22/11/2024

In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below). Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Non-linear relationship between affective polarization and support for 4 antidemocratic norms

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

PRL's annual conference is in Salt Lake City, May 1-2, 2025 🎉Apply by 12/31 to present/attend! We are looking for work on democratic attitudes, broadly defined, and preference complete/near complete studies for talks. Details and application: polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Despite so much focus of the U.S. Election on a few battleground states, affective polarization is actually geographically uniformly distributed across states, finds @derekholliday.com @ylelkes.bsky.social & Westwood @prl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Affective polarization is uniformly distributed across American States

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The nationalization of news is a big part of this phenomenon. See colleagues Johanna Dunaway and Josh Darr on the importance of local news in slowing polarization. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Home Style Opinion

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Home Style Opinion

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 18/03/2024

So happy to see this now published at PNAS! This paper, coauthored with Shanto Iyengar, @ylelkes.bsky.social, and Sean Westwood, was my first project for @prl.bsky.social, and there will be many more coming soon! 🥳 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.

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American local government elections database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - American local government elections database

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Interested in working with PRL? We're looking for postdocs for 2024-2025! Apply by Jan 15, 2024. We're an interdisciplinary lab studying democratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Data skills required 📈 polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/ polisky

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Join our lab About the Positions We are looking for postdoctoral fellows (up to five) to join our team for 2024-2025 and collaborate on and develop projects related to polarization and anti-democra…

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Today's the day! PRL is now accepting paper proposals for our fully funded Annual Meeting in NOLA, March 20-22, 2024. We look for innovative work on partisan animosity, broadly defined. Apply by 12/15. Can't wait to see what you are working on! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti... polisky

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Meetings and Events Annual Meetings The 2024 PRL Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans on March 21-22, 2024! This boutique conference brings together the best and most innovative wo…

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 25/10/2023

"Assistant Speaker" implies the existence of adjunct speaker, associate speaker, full speaker, emeritus speaker, and endowed speaker

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Beware the UVA poll going around on support for violence & democracy tinyurl.com/uvacpoll I've never heard of firm; few details on methods/sample; and question wording is messy and non-standard. Our survey using more careful methods finds support for violence is extremely rare tinyurl.com/viol-poll

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 05/10/2023

Come join our fantastic and productive group of scholars! polisky

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Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

PRL is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Meeting in New Orleans on March 21-22! Applications to present will open on our website on Nov 1. Hint: strong submissions will include a draft paper. We hope you'll apply! PS it's fully funded ✈️ polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeti...

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Annual Meeting

Meetings and Events Annual Meetings The 2024 PRL Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans on March 21-22, 2024! This boutique conference brings together the best and most innovative wo…

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

👇Perhaps the best piece *ever* written about scientific fraud & a fascinating character study of Gino and Ariely. Compared to the recent lightweight NYT article, this longform goes far into the dark underbelly of academic "research." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... academicsky polisky

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They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 28/09/2023

PSA: If you use #rstats {tidycensus} (or really anything from the Census API), the US Census API will get shut down if the government shuts down in a couple days, so download whatever you need now.

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 26/09/2023

NYT: "Other studies have found that any effects from the indictments dissipated quickly, and that there is little evidence of any increase in the numbers of Americans supportive of a violent response." That's us! We're the linked other studies (w/ @ylelkes.bsky.social and Sean Westwood)!

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As Trump Prosecutions Move Forward, Threats and Concerns Increase

As criminal cases proceed against the former president, heated rhetoric and anger among his supporters have the authorities worried about the risk of political dissent becoming deadly.

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 24/08/2023

Party of Reagan just spent nearly double the time discussing UFOs versus taxes: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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