Jonathan Klingler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1324310 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Klingler |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Klingler |
| FIRMA | KLINGLER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5672-5479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans
Although an initial wave of research during the Vietnam War era suggested that the political attitudes of American veterans were not significantly different from those of the public at large, more recent studies argue that this may no longer be true. Thus far, however, the reason for this difference has gone unexplored: are veterans from the volunteer era different because a certain type of person is drawn to military life (selection), or are the…
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes
As one of the most powerful executive actions, rulemaking by U.S. federal agencies involves all three branches and governs many issue areas, but some rules are routine and others are highly consequential. We build a new rule universe composed of nearly forty-thousand considered rules listed in the Unified Agenda since Spring 1995 and employ an item response model with 15 raters to generate integrated estimates of rule significance for each of the…
Still the Same? Revealed Preferences and Ideological Self-Perception Among Former Members of Congress
For years, countless scholars have posited the role of constituency and party pressure on legislators’ roll call voting records. Indeed, though popular estimates of legislators’ preferences often come from roll call data (e.g., DW-NOMINATE scores), most scholars are careful to note that these are not necessarily measures of ideology per se but rather of legislators’ revealed preferences—that is, they reflect both legislators’ ideological commitme…
(Sympathy for) the Devil You Know
Why do some individuals prefer lesser-known, riskier experiences over more well-known options in life? In this paper, we focus on the case of the electoral advantage to incumbency, and the role that psychological entropy reduction can play in undermining that advantage among individuals who lack simplifying heuristics, such as party brand loyalty. We build on recent work in political psychology, applying a more general political psychology framew…
Considerations in Personality Measurement
In another article in this issue, Black et al. discuss their preferred approach to estimating Supreme Court justices’ Big Five personality traits from written text and provide several critiques of the approach of Hall et al. In this rejoinder, we show that Black et al.’s critiques are substantially without merit, their preferred approach suffers from many of the same drawbacks that they project onto our approach, their specific method of implemen…
Attributes beyond Attitudes
Models of behavior on the US Supreme Court almost universally assume that justices’ behavior depends, at least in part, on the characteristics of individual justices. However, few prior studies have attempted to assess these characteristics beyond ideological preferences. In contrast, we apply recent advances in machine learning to develop and validate measures of the Big Five personality traits for Supreme Court justices serving during the 1946 …
Political Capital in the 21st Century
This article advances the study of presidential leadership by analyzing the circumstances under which Organizing for America/Organizing for Action (OFA) mobilized core supporters of President Barack Obama for policy purposes using digital tools and other resources developed for the president’s election campaign. I argue that the policy mobilization efforts of such presidential grassroots lobbying organizations (PGLOs) are constrained by electoral…
Measuring Elite Personality Using Speech
We apply recent advances in machine learning to measure Congressmember personality traits using floor speeches from 1996 to 2014. We also demonstrate the superiority of text-based measurement over survey-based measurement by showing that personality traits are correlated with survey response rates for members of Congress. Finally, we provide one empirical application showcasing the importance of personality on congressional behavior
What I Like About You
Welcome to the Machine
Political scientists have long considered ideology, partisanship, and constituency in determining how members of the United States Congress make decisions. Meanwhile, psychologists have held that personality traits play central roles in decision making. Here, we bridge these literatures by offering a framework for modeling how personality influences legislative behavior. Drawing from experimental economics and neuropsychology, we identify core co…
Don’t Know What You Got
Individuals who are more sensitive to negative outcomes from error are more likely to provide nonresponses in surveys. We argue Neurotics’ sensitivity to negative outcomes leads them to avoid gathering costly information and forming/reporting opinions about stimuli. Using data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we show Neuroticism is strongly and positively associated with NA/DK responses when placing politicians on a seven-p…
Are You Doing Your Part
Drawing from the concept of citizenship in the novel, Starship Troopers, we consider public opinion in a world in which 'service guarantees citizenship.' We do this by examining the political attitudes of US (volunteer) veterans-a group generally neglected in the public opinion literature-relative to the adult population at large. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we demonstrate that, as a group, veterans tend to …
The Development of Political Attitudes and Behaviour Among Young Adults
With young adults frequently characterised by distrust, inefficacy and disengagement from the political process, understanding how and when youth develop attitudes and participatory habits is increasingly important. With this in mind, the authors analyse nationwide surveys of American youths aged 18–24 from 2006 and 2007 with the goal of uncovering developmental patterns characteristic of this age. They find that political participation, narrowly…
Measuring Elite Personality Using Speech
We apply recent advances in machine learning to measure Congressmember personality traits using floor speeches from 1996 to 2014. We also demonstrate the superiority of text-based measurement over survey-based measurement by showing that personality traits are correlated with survey response rates for members of Congress. Finally, we provide one empirical application showcasing the importance of personality on congressional behavior
The Development of Political Attitudes and Behaviour Among Young Adults
With young adults frequently characterised by distrust, inefficacy and disengagement from the political process, understanding how and when youth develop attitudes and participatory habits is increasingly important. With this in mind, the authors analyse nationwide surveys of American youths aged 18–24 from 2006 and 2007 with the goal of uncovering developmental patterns characteristic of this age. They find that political participation, narrowly…
Are You Doing Your Part
Drawing from the concept of citizenship in the novel, Starship Troopers, we consider public opinion in a world in which 'service guarantees citizenship.' We do this by examining the political attitudes of US (volunteer) veterans-a group generally neglected in the public opinion literature-relative to the adult population at large. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we demonstrate that, as a group, veterans tend to …
What I Like About You
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans
Although an initial wave of research during the Vietnam War era suggested that the political attitudes of American veterans were not significantly different from those of the public at large, more recent studies argue that this may no longer be true. Thus far, however, the reason for this difference has gone unexplored: are veterans from the volunteer era different because a certain type of person is drawn to military life (selection), or are the…
Attributes beyond Attitudes
Models of behavior on the US Supreme Court almost universally assume that justices’ behavior depends, at least in part, on the characteristics of individual justices. However, few prior studies have attempted to assess these characteristics beyond ideological preferences. In contrast, we apply recent advances in machine learning to develop and validate measures of the Big Five personality traits for Supreme Court justices serving during the 1946 …
Don’t Know What You Got
Individuals who are more sensitive to negative outcomes from error are more likely to provide nonresponses in surveys. We argue Neurotics’ sensitivity to negative outcomes leads them to avoid gathering costly information and forming/reporting opinions about stimuli. Using data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we show Neuroticism is strongly and positively associated with NA/DK responses when placing politicians on a seven-p…
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes
As one of the most powerful executive actions, rulemaking by U.S. federal agencies involves all three branches and governs many issue areas, but some rules are routine and others are highly consequential. We build a new rule universe composed of nearly forty-thousand considered rules listed in the Unified Agenda since Spring 1995 and employ an item response model with 15 raters to generate integrated estimates of rule significance for each of the…
(Sympathy for) the Devil You Know
Why do some individuals prefer lesser-known, riskier experiences over more well-known options in life? In this paper, we focus on the case of the electoral advantage to incumbency, and the role that psychological entropy reduction can play in undermining that advantage among individuals who lack simplifying heuristics, such as party brand loyalty. We build on recent work in political psychology, applying a more general political psychology framew…
The Development of Political Attitudes and Behaviour Among Young Adults
With young adults frequently characterised by distrust, inefficacy and disengagement from the political process, understanding how and when youth develop attitudes and participatory habits is increasingly important. With this in mind, the authors analyse nationwide surveys of American youths aged 18–24 from 2006 and 2007 with the goal of uncovering developmental patterns characteristic of this age. They find that political participation, narrowly…
Are You Doing Your Part
Drawing from the concept of citizenship in the novel, Starship Troopers, we consider public opinion in a world in which 'service guarantees citizenship.' We do this by examining the political attitudes of US (volunteer) veterans-a group generally neglected in the public opinion literature-relative to the adult population at large. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we demonstrate that, as a group, veterans tend to …
Don’t Know What You Got
Individuals who are more sensitive to negative outcomes from error are more likely to provide nonresponses in surveys. We argue Neurotics’ sensitivity to negative outcomes leads them to avoid gathering costly information and forming/reporting opinions about stimuli. Using data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we show Neuroticism is strongly and positively associated with NA/DK responses when placing politicians on a seven-p…
Welcome to the Machine
Political scientists have long considered ideology, partisanship, and constituency in determining how members of the United States Congress make decisions. Meanwhile, psychologists have held that personality traits play central roles in decision making. Here, we bridge these literatures by offering a framework for modeling how personality influences legislative behavior. Drawing from experimental economics and neuropsychology, we identify core co…
Measuring Elite Personality Using Speech
We apply recent advances in machine learning to measure Congressmember personality traits using floor speeches from 1996 to 2014. We also demonstrate the superiority of text-based measurement over survey-based measurement by showing that personality traits are correlated with survey response rates for members of Congress. Finally, we provide one empirical application showcasing the importance of personality on congressional behavior
What I Like About You
Political Capital in the 21st Century
This article advances the study of presidential leadership by analyzing the circumstances under which Organizing for America/Organizing for Action (OFA) mobilized core supporters of President Barack Obama for policy purposes using digital tools and other resources developed for the president’s election campaign. I argue that the policy mobilization efforts of such presidential grassroots lobbying organizations (PGLOs) are constrained by electoral…
(Sympathy for) the Devil You Know
Why do some individuals prefer lesser-known, riskier experiences over more well-known options in life? In this paper, we focus on the case of the electoral advantage to incumbency, and the role that psychological entropy reduction can play in undermining that advantage among individuals who lack simplifying heuristics, such as party brand loyalty. We build on recent work in political psychology, applying a more general political psychology framew…
Considerations in Personality Measurement
In another article in this issue, Black et al. discuss their preferred approach to estimating Supreme Court justices’ Big Five personality traits from written text and provide several critiques of the approach of Hall et al. In this rejoinder, we show that Black et al.’s critiques are substantially without merit, their preferred approach suffers from many of the same drawbacks that they project onto our approach, their specific method of implemen…
Attributes beyond Attitudes
Models of behavior on the US Supreme Court almost universally assume that justices’ behavior depends, at least in part, on the characteristics of individual justices. However, few prior studies have attempted to assess these characteristics beyond ideological preferences. In contrast, we apply recent advances in machine learning to develop and validate measures of the Big Five personality traits for Supreme Court justices serving during the 1946 …
Still the Same? Revealed Preferences and Ideological Self-Perception Among Former Members of Congress
For years, countless scholars have posited the role of constituency and party pressure on legislators’ roll call voting records. Indeed, though popular estimates of legislators’ preferences often come from roll call data (e.g., DW-NOMINATE scores), most scholars are careful to note that these are not necessarily measures of ideology per se but rather of legislators’ revealed preferences—that is, they reflect both legislators’ ideological commitme…
Would You Like to Know More? Selection, Socialization, and the Political Attitudes of Military Veterans
Although an initial wave of research during the Vietnam War era suggested that the political attitudes of American veterans were not significantly different from those of the public at large, more recent studies argue that this may no longer be true. Thus far, however, the reason for this difference has gone unexplored: are veterans from the volunteer era different because a certain type of person is drawn to military life (selection), or are the…
Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes
As one of the most powerful executive actions, rulemaking by U.S. federal agencies involves all three branches and governs many issue areas, but some rules are routine and others are highly consequential. We build a new rule universe composed of nearly forty-thousand considered rules listed in the Unified Agenda since Spring 1995 and employ an item response model with 15 raters to generate integrated estimates of rule significance for each of the…
Political science (13 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 obras) · Personality (7 obras) · Big Five personality traits (5 obras)