Scott D Mcclurg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 635857 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Scott D Mcclurg |
| NOMBRES | Scott D |
| APELLIDO | Mcclurg |
| FIRMA | MCCLURG S D |
| AFILIACIONES | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1022-6180 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1069 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Exploring the Relationship Between Televised Presidential Debate and Twitter
This study investigates the dynamics of network intermedia agenda-setting (IAS) between televised presidential debate and Twitter, focusing on the 10th Democratic Party Presidential Primary Debate of 2020 and corresponding Twitter discussions. By utilizing a social network analysis, this study uncovers the prioritized issues and sub-issues, as well as the networked relationship between the televised debate and Twitter discussions. The results sug…
Putting the Political in Political Interest
Given that political interest is one of the best predictors of political participation, it remains curious that the causes of interest are undertheorized and understudied. Notably absent from much of the research on political interest is an exploration of how variations in the nature of politics itself might have an impact on individual-level political interest. We develop a theory and a set of testable predictions about how partisanship interact…
Macrointerest
An interested and engaged electorate is widely believed to be an indicator of democratic health. As such, the aggregate level of political interest of an electorate – macrointerest – is an essential commodity in a democracy, and understanding the forces that change macrointerest is important for diagnosing the health of a democracy. Because being interested in politics requires time and effort, the article theorizes that the electorate's level of…
The Political Consequences of Gender in Social Networks
Recent research on political discussion has focused on whether aspects of interaction create a ‘democratic dilemma’ for the mass public in which people face a choice between political participation and political tolerance. This article argues that there are important variations in how people react to their immediate social contacts. It explores this idea by studying how social disagreement and expertise interact with gender to explain variance in…
Discussion Networks
While political network research is often a holistic enterprise, the network paradigm can also be used to study individual behavior. Specifically, rather than focusing on full network structures, a well-established area of research considers individuals’ “core” networks, their perceptions of interpersonal connections, and the consequences of said micro-social environments for myriad political outcomes and processes. This chapter examines this res…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
Personality, Interpersonal Disagreement, and Electoral Information
Interpersonal disagreement has been linked to a variety of democratic outcomes, and classic theories of social influence place it at the heart of opinion formation. We examine the relationship between exposure to disagreement and information seeking during elections, while developing and testing a theory of heterogeneous effects based on recent work on personality and discussion (e.g., Gerber et al. 2012). Using a simulated campaign experiment (L…
Presidential Campaign Spending and Correct Voting from 2000 to 2008
Objective This study examines whether presidential campaigns help voters make informed choices on Election Day, or whether unique campaign contexts can actually hinder quality votes. We explore this question by relating the allocation of resources by presidential campaigns to a measure of correct voting (Lau and Redlawsk, 1997). Methods We expect that when campaign messages become overwhelmingly one sided, the number of incorrect votes increases …
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
Political networks
Disagreeing about Disagreement
At the center of debates on deliberative democracy is the issue of how much deliberation citizens experience in their social networks. These “disagreements about disagreement” come in a variety of forms, with scholars advocating different empirical approaches (e.g., Huckfeldt, Johnson, and Sprague 2004; Mutz 2006) and coming to different substantive conclusions. We address these discrepancies by going back to the basics: investigating the consequ…
He Said, She Said
This paper examines how interpersonal social networks relate to the voting behavior of men and women. We argue that underlying the gender gap in voting is related to social processes that depend on the partisan and sex composition of networks. Analysis of the 2000 American National Election Study identified two ways that sex differences are relevant to network explanations of voting behavior. First, men have more sex homophily in their networks t…
Social Networks and Correct Voting
Decades of research suggest that social interaction influences opinion formation and affects voting behavior. However, recent work concerning the nexus between deliberation and democratic practice--particularly in the American context--has re-focused attention on the normative consequences of socially-driven political behavior. Among the most common criticisms of interpersonal networks are that most people have very insular social circles, and th…
Political Networks
Political science is diverse in its methods, theories, and substantive interests. A quick perusal of our flagship journals reveals just how heterogeneous we are, with articles ranging from mathematical treatments of theoretical problems to textual exegesis of Plato, and qualitative studies of single countries standing in contrast to quantitative analyses of experiments designed to mobilize voters. At times, the discipline's boundaries are so fuzz…
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini. Talking Together
Deliberative democracy is one of the most promising topics of conversation in the field of public opinion and behavior. Not only does it join theorists and empiricists together in a common intellectual pursuit, but interest in deliberation extends into the realm of practical politics and creates real opportunities for scholarship to affect the quality of citizenship. Nevertheless, very little effort has been devoted to understanding foundational …
Voter Mobilization and the Obama Victory
As with the other presidential elections from this decade, the 2008 election was followed by considerable speculation as to how new efforts to mobilize voters affected the eventual outcome. Although the conventional wisdom implies that “Democrats benefit from higher turnout,” previous research in political science demonstrates that such a conclusion applies to actual election results inconsistently. In this article, we outline the difficulties in…
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
Living in a Battleground
Little evidence links the strategic decisions of campaigns to individual-level voting behavior. Yet for campaigns to matter in the way that experts argue, exposure to campaigns must also matter, so there should be observable differences in the structure of vote choice between battleground and nonbattleground states. Combining presidential campaign data with the Senate Election Study, the authors show that intense campaigning can activate factors …
Social Networks and American Politics
This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) coordination, cooperation, or trust; (c) informal org…
Mandates, Parties, and Voters
Journal Article Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future by James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov Get access Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Futureby James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2007. 197 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. Scott McClurg Scott McClurg Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political …
Diana C. Mutz. Hearing the Other Side
One of the more popular arguments offered in recent years to both explain the stability of American government and to enhance representation focuses on deliberation. Yet, little empirical research is devoted to studying the amount of deliberation that occurs in practice or the consequences that it holds for citizens when they encounter it in everyday life. Recognizing this shortcoming, Diana Mutz offers an incisive look at how everyday discussion…
A Neo-Institutional Explanation of State Supreme Court Responses in Search and Seizure Cases
To better understand the relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts, we examine how Supreme Court precedent affects state supreme court decision making. Examining state supreme court decisions in search and seizure cases decided by the Supreme Court between 1983 and 1993, we specifically test hypotheses about how state judicial context and Supreme Court behavior influences when the lower court is likely to be affected by…
The Race to 270
The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004. By Daron R. Shaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 216p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Part political memoir, part political science, this is a valuable book on presidential elections that should be read by consultants and academics alike. Drawing on his experience as a Bush strategist and a political science professor at the University of Texas, Daron S…
Political Disagreement in Context
The Electoral Relevance of Political Talk
Although people with larger, more politicized social networks are more likely to participate in elections, we know very little about what drives this relationship. I argue that the electoral relevance of political talk depends heavily on the political expertise imbedded in discussion networks. Using data gathered during the 1996 presidential election, I demonstrate that the level of political sophistication in a person's social network exerts a p…
Social Networks and Political Participation
The argument advanced in this article is that interaction in social networks has a strong, though often over-looked, influence on the propensity to participate in politics. Specifically, I argue that social interaction creates opportunities for individuals to gather information about politics that allows them to live beyond personal resource constraints, thereby supporting the political activity of many people. Using relational data from the Sout…
The Electoral Relevance of Political Talk
Although people with larger, more politicized social networks are more likely to participate in elections, we know very little about what drives this relationship. I argue that the electoral relevance of political talk depends heavily on the political expertise imbedded in discussion networks. Using data gathered during the 1996 presidential election, I demonstrate that the level of political sophistication in a person's social network exerts a p…
Disagreeing about Disagreement
At the center of debates on deliberative democracy is the issue of how much deliberation citizens experience in their social networks. These “disagreements about disagreement” come in a variety of forms, with scholars advocating different empirical approaches (e.g., Huckfeldt, Johnson, and Sprague 2004; Mutz 2006) and coming to different substantive conclusions. We address these discrepancies by going back to the basics: investigating the consequ…
The Mobilization of Core Supporters
Our objective is to investigate the relationship between presidential campaign activities and political mobilization in the states, with specific focus on the mobilization of core constituents. Using data on presidential campaign visits, presidential campaign media purchases, and party transfers to the states, we highlight some interesting mobilization patterns. First, voter turnout is positively influenced by presidential campaigns, though not b…
Political Disagreement in Context
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
Social Networks and Correct Voting
Decades of research suggest that social interaction influences opinion formation and affects voting behavior. However, recent work concerning the nexus between deliberation and democratic practice--particularly in the American context--has re-focused attention on the normative consequences of socially-driven political behavior. Among the most common criticisms of interpersonal networks are that most people have very insular social circles, and th…
What Do They Know and How Do They Know It
The connection between the individual and his or her aggregate geographic environment, usually defined as the neighborhood, is a key component of the contextual model of social influence. However, there is substantial anecdotal evidence that people have very little knowledge or connection to their neighborhood. In this article, the authors explore the connection by using data from the South Bend Study to answer two questions: What do people know …
Indirect Mobilization
Although direct contacts between campaigns and individuals are a central part of the process that encourages political participation, it is often argued that their effects extend beyond the initial contact via a secondary process of indirect mobilization. This article puts that argument to the test by investigating possible connections between direct party contacts and political mobilization in social networks. The results show that the primary s…
The Political Consequences of Gender in Social Networks
Recent research on political discussion has focused on whether aspects of interaction create a ‘democratic dilemma’ for the mass public in which people face a choice between political participation and political tolerance. This article argues that there are important variations in how people react to their immediate social contacts. It explores this idea by studying how social disagreement and expertise interact with gender to explain variance in…
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
The Race to 270
The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004. By Daron R. Shaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 216p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Part political memoir, part political science, this is a valuable book on presidential elections that should be read by consultants and academics alike. Drawing on his experience as a Bush strategist and a political science professor at the University of Texas, Daron S…
Living in a Battleground
Little evidence links the strategic decisions of campaigns to individual-level voting behavior. Yet for campaigns to matter in the way that experts argue, exposure to campaigns must also matter, so there should be observable differences in the structure of vote choice between battleground and nonbattleground states. Combining presidential campaign data with the Senate Election Study, the authors show that intense campaigning can activate factors …
Political Networks
Political science is diverse in its methods, theories, and substantive interests. A quick perusal of our flagship journals reveals just how heterogeneous we are, with articles ranging from mathematical treatments of theoretical problems to textual exegesis of Plato, and qualitative studies of single countries standing in contrast to quantitative analyses of experiments designed to mobilize voters. At times, the discipline's boundaries are so fuzz…
Social Networks and American Politics
This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) coordination, cooperation, or trust; (c) informal org…
Voter Mobilization and the Obama Victory
As with the other presidential elections from this decade, the 2008 election was followed by considerable speculation as to how new efforts to mobilize voters affected the eventual outcome. Although the conventional wisdom implies that “Democrats benefit from higher turnout,” previous research in political science demonstrates that such a conclusion applies to actual election results inconsistently. In this article, we outline the difficulties in…
Personality, Interpersonal Disagreement, and Electoral Information
Interpersonal disagreement has been linked to a variety of democratic outcomes, and classic theories of social influence place it at the heart of opinion formation. We examine the relationship between exposure to disagreement and information seeking during elections, while developing and testing a theory of heterogeneous effects based on recent work on personality and discussion (e.g., Gerber et al. 2012). Using a simulated campaign experiment (L…
He Said, She Said
This paper examines how interpersonal social networks relate to the voting behavior of men and women. We argue that underlying the gender gap in voting is related to social processes that depend on the partisan and sex composition of networks. Analysis of the 2000 American National Election Study identified two ways that sex differences are relevant to network explanations of voting behavior. First, men have more sex homophily in their networks t…
A Neo-Institutional Explanation of State Supreme Court Responses in Search and Seizure Cases
To better understand the relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts, we examine how Supreme Court precedent affects state supreme court decision making. Examining state supreme court decisions in search and seizure cases decided by the Supreme Court between 1983 and 1993, we specifically test hypotheses about how state judicial context and Supreme Court behavior influences when the lower court is likely to be affected by…
Macrointerest
An interested and engaged electorate is widely believed to be an indicator of democratic health. As such, the aggregate level of political interest of an electorate – macrointerest – is an essential commodity in a democracy, and understanding the forces that change macrointerest is important for diagnosing the health of a democracy. Because being interested in politics requires time and effort, the article theorizes that the electorate's level of…
Presidential Campaign Spending and Correct Voting from 2000 to 2008
Objective This study examines whether presidential campaigns help voters make informed choices on Election Day, or whether unique campaign contexts can actually hinder quality votes. We explore this question by relating the allocation of resources by presidential campaigns to a measure of correct voting (Lau and Redlawsk, 1997). Methods We expect that when campaign messages become overwhelmingly one sided, the number of incorrect votes increases …
Putting the Political in Political Interest
Given that political interest is one of the best predictors of political participation, it remains curious that the causes of interest are undertheorized and understudied. Notably absent from much of the research on political interest is an exploration of how variations in the nature of politics itself might have an impact on individual-level political interest. We develop a theory and a set of testable predictions about how partisanship interact…
Negotiating a Coalition
The authors examine how negotiators' risk preferences influence the formation of coalitions. Joining a coalition may either increase or mitigate risk depending on the nature of the bargaining problem. In an experimental setting, the authors test whether relative risk preferences influence the likelihood of joining a coalition and the distribution of payoffs in coalitions that form. With inexperienced bargainers, risk preferences predict coalition…
Negotiating a Coalition
The authors examine how negotiators' risk preferences influence the formation of coalitions. Joining a coalition may either increase or mitigate risk depending on the nature of the bargaining problem. In an experimental setting, the authors test whether relative risk preferences influence the likelihood of joining a coalition and the distribution of payoffs in coalitions that form. With inexperienced bargainers, risk preferences predict coalition…
Social Networks and Political Participation
The argument advanced in this article is that interaction in social networks has a strong, though often over-looked, influence on the propensity to participate in politics. Specifically, I argue that social interaction creates opportunities for individuals to gather information about politics that allows them to live beyond personal resource constraints, thereby supporting the political activity of many people. Using relational data from the Sout…
Indirect Mobilization
Although direct contacts between campaigns and individuals are a central part of the process that encourages political participation, it is often argued that their effects extend beyond the initial contact via a secondary process of indirect mobilization. This article puts that argument to the test by investigating possible connections between direct party contacts and political mobilization in social networks. The results show that the primary s…
The Mobilization of Core Supporters
Our objective is to investigate the relationship between presidential campaign activities and political mobilization in the states, with specific focus on the mobilization of core constituents. Using data on presidential campaign visits, presidential campaign media purchases, and party transfers to the states, we highlight some interesting mobilization patterns. First, voter turnout is positively influenced by presidential campaigns, though not b…
The Mobilization of Core Supporters
Our objective is to investigate the relationship between presidential campaign activities and political mobilization in the states, with specific focus on the mobilization of core constituents. Using data on presidential campaign visits, presidential campaign media purchases, and party transfers to the states, we highlight some interesting mobilization patterns. First, voter turnout is positively influenced by presidential campaigns, though not b…
What Do They Know and How Do They Know It
The connection between the individual and his or her aggregate geographic environment, usually defined as the neighborhood, is a key component of the contextual model of social influence. However, there is substantial anecdotal evidence that people have very little knowledge or connection to their neighborhood. In this article, the authors explore the connection by using data from the South Bend Study to answer two questions: What do people know …
Political Disagreement in Context
The Electoral Relevance of Political Talk
Although people with larger, more politicized social networks are more likely to participate in elections, we know very little about what drives this relationship. I argue that the electoral relevance of political talk depends heavily on the political expertise imbedded in discussion networks. Using data gathered during the 1996 presidential election, I demonstrate that the level of political sophistication in a person's social network exerts a p…
Diana C. Mutz. Hearing the Other Side
One of the more popular arguments offered in recent years to both explain the stability of American government and to enhance representation focuses on deliberation. Yet, little empirical research is devoted to studying the amount of deliberation that occurs in practice or the consequences that it holds for citizens when they encounter it in everyday life. Recognizing this shortcoming, Diana Mutz offers an incisive look at how everyday discussion…
A Neo-Institutional Explanation of State Supreme Court Responses in Search and Seizure Cases
To better understand the relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts, we examine how Supreme Court precedent affects state supreme court decision making. Examining state supreme court decisions in search and seizure cases decided by the Supreme Court between 1983 and 1993, we specifically test hypotheses about how state judicial context and Supreme Court behavior influences when the lower court is likely to be affected by…
The Race to 270
The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004. By Daron R. Shaw. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 216p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Part political memoir, part political science, this is a valuable book on presidential elections that should be read by consultants and academics alike. Drawing on his experience as a Bush strategist and a political science professor at the University of Texas, Daron S…
Mandates, Parties, and Voters
Journal Article Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future by James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov Get access Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Futureby James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2007. 197 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $24.95. Scott McClurg Scott McClurg Southern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political …
Measurement of Political Discussion Networks
Journal Article Measurement of Political Discussion Networks: A Comparison of Two "Name Generator" Procedures Get access Casey A. Klofstad, Casey A. Klofstad Address correspondence to Casey A. Klofstad; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scott D. McClurg, Scott D. McClurg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Meredith Rolfe Meredith Rolfe Search f…
Living in a Battleground
Little evidence links the strategic decisions of campaigns to individual-level voting behavior. Yet for campaigns to matter in the way that experts argue, exposure to campaigns must also matter, so there should be observable differences in the structure of vote choice between battleground and nonbattleground states. Combining presidential campaign data with the Senate Election Study, the authors show that intense campaigning can activate factors …
Social Networks and American Politics
This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) coordination, cooperation, or trust; (c) informal org…
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini. Talking Together
Deliberative democracy is one of the most promising topics of conversation in the field of public opinion and behavior. Not only does it join theorists and empiricists together in a common intellectual pursuit, but interest in deliberation extends into the realm of practical politics and creates real opportunities for scholarship to affect the quality of citizenship. Nevertheless, very little effort has been devoted to understanding foundational …
Voter Mobilization and the Obama Victory
As with the other presidential elections from this decade, the 2008 election was followed by considerable speculation as to how new efforts to mobilize voters affected the eventual outcome. Although the conventional wisdom implies that “Democrats benefit from higher turnout,” previous research in political science demonstrates that such a conclusion applies to actual election results inconsistently. In this article, we outline the difficulties in…
Political Networks
Political science is diverse in its methods, theories, and substantive interests. A quick perusal of our flagship journals reveals just how heterogeneous we are, with articles ranging from mathematical treatments of theoretical problems to textual exegesis of Plato, and qualitative studies of single countries standing in contrast to quantitative analyses of experiments designed to mobilize voters. At times, the discipline's boundaries are so fuzz…
Social Networks and Correct Voting
Decades of research suggest that social interaction influences opinion formation and affects voting behavior. However, recent work concerning the nexus between deliberation and democratic practice--particularly in the American context--has re-focused attention on the normative consequences of socially-driven political behavior. Among the most common criticisms of interpersonal networks are that most people have very insular social circles, and th…
Disagreeing about Disagreement
At the center of debates on deliberative democracy is the issue of how much deliberation citizens experience in their social networks. These “disagreements about disagreement” come in a variety of forms, with scholars advocating different empirical approaches (e.g., Huckfeldt, Johnson, and Sprague 2004; Mutz 2006) and coming to different substantive conclusions. We address these discrepancies by going back to the basics: investigating the consequ…
He Said, She Said
This paper examines how interpersonal social networks relate to the voting behavior of men and women. We argue that underlying the gender gap in voting is related to social processes that depend on the partisan and sex composition of networks. Analysis of the 2000 American National Election Study identified two ways that sex differences are relevant to network explanations of voting behavior. First, men have more sex homophily in their networks t…
Political networks
Presidential Campaign Spending and Correct Voting from 2000 to 2008
Objective This study examines whether presidential campaigns help voters make informed choices on Election Day, or whether unique campaign contexts can actually hinder quality votes. We explore this question by relating the allocation of resources by presidential campaigns to a measure of correct voting (Lau and Redlawsk, 1997). Methods We expect that when campaign messages become overwhelmingly one sided, the number of incorrect votes increases …
How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression
Journal Article How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Get access Lilach Nir, Lilach Nir * Lilach Nir is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Scott D. McClurg is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA. The authors…
Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis
The last decade has seen substantial advances in statistical techniques for the analysis of network data, as well as a major increase in the frequency with which these tools are used. These techniques are designed to accomplish the same broad goal, statistically valid inference in the presence of highly interdependent relationships, but important differences remain between them. We review three approaches commonly used for inferential network ana…
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