Democracy & Governance

This article addresses a gap in the literature connecting the empirical observation of a democratic peace to a theoretical mechanism based on domestic audience costs. We argue that the link between these literatures lies in the way leaders reach the...

Socially impactful phenomena often occur across time and space – examples include pandemics, climate change, mass protests, and political campaigns. Survey data can play an important role in understanding these situations. Yet, there is a tension such...

A longstanding literature in American foreign policy holds that the American public’s support for war significantly depends on the number of U.S. casualties in the conflict (their number, rate, trend, proximity, etc.). While a pandemic is clearly not a...

The Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 States Survey (CHIP50)  was launched in by a multi-university group of researchers with expertise in computational social science, network science, public opinion polling, epidemiology, public health...

This study aimed to characterize the prevalence of irritability among U.S. adults, and the extent to which it co-occurs with major depressive and anxious symptoms. A non-probability internet survey of individuals 18 and older in 50 U.S. states and the...

Importance  Identifying and tracking new infections during an emerging pandemic is crucial to design and deploy interventions to protect populations and mitigate the pandemic’s effects, yet it remains a challenging task.

Objective  To characterize the...

Belief in conspiracy theories has significant social and political consequences. While prior research has focused primarily on psychological predispositions as drivers of conspiracy beliefs, relatively less is known about the role of social networks. Here...

Using an experimental design that mimics the YouTube interface, we demonstrate that presenting people with more partisan video recommendations has no detectable polarizing effects on users’ attitudes in the short term. We conduct four experiments on two...