We’re looking for an RA for the MULTIREP ERC project at @univie.ac.at — working on citizens' fundamental motivations for political representation.
We look for MA students with some experience and a lot of interest in surveys & experiments.

Deadline is 10 Nov, 23:59pm!

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Post-election cross-sectional surveys from the US show effects that are in the same ballpark as the experimental estimates

- The latter is likely due to motivated reasoning: losers ignore change in relative group status by outcomes
- Eliciting election scenarios generally increase out-group threat for both winners & losers, but losing only minimally more

Key findings:
- Elections influence winners but not losers & primarily through in-party gratification + a very modest increase in out-party warmth
- Losers don't dislike opponents more, nor cool on their own party

My experiment on election outcomes, partisan identity & affective polarization is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Puzzle: From a group ID lens, outcomes could shift both perceived out-party threat & in-group status → ambivalent predictions for affective polarization.

10/ We conducted structural estimations based on a formal model and survey experimental data: we find that increased journalistic scrutiny does not always facilitate voter sanctioning.

8/ What is even more devestating is that denials that are later refuted by evidence do not increase support for the politician's resignation compared to a simple evidence but no communication. But denials after reading evidence can even mitigate electoral sanctioning.

5/ We found that while the relative impact of denial vs apology indeed increases when it comes to more serious scandals. But suprisingly, apologies are not more optimal even in the case of the lowest seriousness allegations.

2/ First up, the BJPolS article, "Why Politicians Won’t Apologize."

This study investigates why apologies are so rare in the aftermath of sex scandals. It combines survey experiments with 10,000+ US respondents to test how voters respond to denial vs. apologies.