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Abstract. This study investigates how the number and labeling of response categories in survey scales affect respondent behavior, psychometric properties,

(Forthcoming Article) - We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on pre- venting least-preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most-preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are stable across domains and countries with divergent political traditions. Designing attractive social choice mechanisms is challenging in practice partly because aggre- gation principles that make manipulation diffcult yield outcomes people consider normatively unappealing.

Stylised facts, or what has actually happened?

Cultures change, but new cultural systems and practices also emerge over history. The socio-ecological factors that exert pressure on human values and…

There are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and id...

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

This article develops a dual-agency model of leadership which treats collective phenomena as a co-production involving both leaders and followers who …

How do nonviolent alternatives affect international support for violent rebel groups? Armed rebellions are often sustained by outside sympathy and support, whic...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

Depuis le début du conflit, aucun bilan humain n’a été communiqué par Moscou. Un déserteur de l’armée russe, ancien informaticien et brancardier en Ukraine, a livré au « Monde » des données sur les bl...