This study asks how voters respond to a political scandal when evidence of misconduct is both clear and attributable to a specific party, and whether those conditions limit partisan motivated reasoning. Using the unexpected release of a video tied to Britain’s Partygate scandal and a nationally representative survey fielded at that moment, the research examines changes in performance evaluations, party favorability, and vote intentions toward the involved governing party.
COVID-19 pandemic reshaped American political discourse through partisan lenses, but a less examined force—populism—also influenced public attitudes. This worldview positions average citizens against elites and often distrusts experts.
Does the public in a rising authoritarian power overestimate their country’s reputation, power, and influence? This research uses three studies conducted around and after the COVID-19 pandemic to document whether Chinese citizens overestimate China’s global reputation and soft power, and whether simple information about actual international opinion can correct those perceptions and influence related evaluations.
This article asks whether culture—understood as interconnected “cultural scripts” linking group identities to negative phenomena—helps explain rises in antisemitism. Using three linked studies, the authors isolate a script that historically links Judaism with disease, document an increase in antisemitic attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic among Christian believers, and use association tasks and priming experiments to show that elements of the script are present and can be triggered in respondents’ minds.
Affective polarization—partisans' dislike and distrust of the other party—has reached historically high levels in the United States, but its effects on political beliefs are less understood than its effects on apolitical outcomes.
This study tests whether the COVID-19 pandemic shifted citizens’ ideological beliefs about the role of government—motivated by prior work showing major crises (wars, depressions) can reshape mass attitudes. Original panel data from the United Kingdom were used to observe changes in the same respondents’ views before and after the pandemic.
This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic differentially affected the research productivity of male and female academics and whether the crisis may further widen existing gender gaps in both the short and long term.
The study reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected voter behavior and turnout in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Compared responses to a PhD career survey administered before and after major COVID-19 developments at a comparatively well‑resourced U.S. institution. The analysis contrasts answers across survey dates and by student seniority to assess shifts in career aspirations and job priorities.
In this study, we examine how well prediction markets captured public sentiment during the unprecedented events of the 2020 US Presidential election. Using data from the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM), a long-standing experimental asset market for political forecasting, our analysis reveals that despite widespread disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, economic recession fears, and nationwide protests, these markets continued to provide surprisingly accurate predictions across multiple electoral levels.