Ting-wei Weng
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Ting-wei Weng
@tingweiweng.bsky.social
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My article "The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts," co-authored with Eugenia Artabe and Lucia Lopez, is now available online at Political Research Quarterly.

doi.org/10.1177/1065...
The Partisan Foundations of Attitudes Towards State Supreme Courts - Eugenia Artabe, Alex Badas, Lucia Lopez, 2025
State supreme courts have become increasingly salient as the U.S. Supreme Court has deferred more politically contentious questions to the states. Yet, despite ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Also, you don't need to live in Texas to attend! You just need to be willing to travel here!
August 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🚨Preprint alert🚨

How does affective polarization change democracy? Lots of pubs study how AP affects trust, democratic norms, inter-partisan attitudes, and participation.

We (w/ @polpsychjoe.bsky.social, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social) examine a vital assumption this research seems to rely on:
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June 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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⁉️In survey experiments, should you ask covariates before the treatment?

➡️ @asdurso.bsky.social @tabithabonilla.bsky.social G.Bogdanowicz study the effects of placing sensitive items in different parts of the survey and offer guidance on optimal ordering www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
June 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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New working paper with two great coauthors!
🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes?

In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.
April 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
March 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Everyone doing quant work in any field should be required to read the conclusion of the linked post, if no other part of it.
I still sometimes complain about this site but that there are links to content like this gives me hope!
How can you calculate an effective number given the size of the largest component? A new paper showed me Rein Taagepera got their years ago chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/effnum... cc @jack-bailey.co.uk @laderafrutal.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments" is now published in Political Analysis.

Open-Access DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pan....

w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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IMO, their measures also *underestimate* support for violence by conceptualizing and measuring it as indiscriminate partisan violence. In a couple of papers, we find much more support that seems to be motivated by perceptions of harm and policy disagreements 1/4
A few years ago there was a poli sci debate about the level of public support for political violence. The Luigi Mangione stuff was a good real world test. It makes the Mason and Kalmoe estimates look pretty accurate.
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Now out on FirstView: “Is a Picture Worth 280 Characters?: Contextually Realistic Graphics vs. Plain Text in Survey Experiments” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Is a Picture Worth 280 Characters?: Contextually Realistic Graphics vs. Plain Text in Survey Experiments | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
Is a Picture Worth 280 Characters?: Contextually Realistic Graphics vs. Plain Text in Survey Experiments
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January 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Congratulations to Allison Archer and her co-author Erik Peterson. Their article "The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News" was published in Political Science and Politics.

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The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
The Fragility of the Local News Trust Advantage: Evidence from Republican Attacks on Local News
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January 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Now out on FirstView: "Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes | Journal of Experimental Political Science | Cambridge Core
Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes
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November 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
November 4, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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Remember when people with huge research accounts were trying to slam the door on the most affordable/accessible subject recruitment device we’ve ever had?
May 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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"Estimators for Topic-Sampling Designs" is now out in Political Analysis.

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pan....

In this paper, we motivate and justify hierarchical models for analyzing experiments that assign respondents to several designs in parallel--what we call "topic sampling."

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May 15, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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👇 New pub in CPS! We find that media narratives attributing inequality to a rigged economic system increase redistributive attitudes in AU, FR, DE, CH, and the UK, but not in the US. This shows the power (and limit) of fairness frames that focus on the source of inequality. doi.org/10.1177/0010...
May 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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So excited to see this online at IJPP! In our latest, @carolynschmitt.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social, @heesoojang.bsky.social and I study the role of political leaders in the legitimation and recent mainstreaming of far-right media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
March 26, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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🎉New Version!

"The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments"

w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/so...

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February 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM