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Inferring Whether Officials Are Corruptible From Looking at Their Faces by Lin, Chujun, Adolphs, Ralph, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…While inferences of traits from unfamiliar faces prominently reveal stereotypes, some facial inferences also correlate with real-world outcomes. We…”
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Personality traits are directly associated with anti-black prejudice in the United States by Lin, Chujun, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…Modern psychological theories postulate that individual differences in prejudice are determined by social and ideological attitudes instead of personality. For…”
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Election forensics: Using machine learning and synthetic data for possible election anomaly detection by Zhang, Mali, Alvarez, R Michael, Levin, Ines

“…Assuring election integrity is essential for the legitimacy of elected representative democratic government. Until recently, other than in-person election…”
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Persuadable voters decided the 2022 midterm: Abortion rights and issues-based frameworks for studying election outcomes by Kann, Claudia, Ebanks, Daniel, Morrier, Jacob, Alvarez, R Michael

“…Leading up to the 2022 Congressional midterm elections, all predictions pointed to a Republican wave, given factors such as the incumbent president's low…”
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Identifying American climate change free riders and motivating sustainable behavior by Magistro, Beatrice, Abramson, Cecilia, Ebanks, Daniel, Debnath, Ramit, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…Free riders, who benefit from collective efforts to mitigate climate change but do not actively contribute, play a key role in shaping behavioral climate…”
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Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey Respondents by Alvarez, R. Michael, Atkeson, Lonna Rae, Levin, Ines, Li, Yimeng

“…Does attentiveness matter in survey responses? Do more attentive survey participants give higher quality responses? Using data from a recent online survey that…”
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A Taxonomy of Protest Voting by Alvarez, R. Michael, Kiewiet, D. Roderick, Núñez, Lucas

“…Observers of elections often report that voters have engaged in protest voting. We find that "protest voting" refers to a wide range of behaviors, and we…”
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Social media enables people-centric climate action in the hard-to-decarbonise building sector by Debnath, Ramit, Bardhan, Ronita, Shah, Darshil U., Mohaddes, Kamiar, Ramage, Michael H., Alvarez, R. Michael, Sovacool, Benjamin K.

“…The building and construction sector accounts for around 39% of global carbon dioxide emissions and remains a hard-to-abate sector. We use a data-driven…”
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Cultural effects on the association between election outcomes and face-based trait inferences by Lin, Chujun, Adolphs, Ralph, Alvarez, R Michael

“…How competent a politician looks, as assessed in the laboratory, is correlated with whether the politician wins in real elections. This finding has led many to…”
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Who Asks For Voter Identification? Explaining Poll-Worker Discretion by Atkeson, Lonna Rae, Kerevel, Yann P., Alvarez, R. Michael, Hall, Thad E.

“…As street-level bureaucrats, poll workers bear the primary responsibility for implementing voter identification requirements. Voter identification requirements…”
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Research Replication: Practical Considerations by Michael Alvarez, R., Key, Ellen M., Núñez, Lucas

“…With the discipline’s push toward data access and research transparency (DA-RT), journal replication archives are becoming increasingly common. As researchers…”
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Do fossil fuel firms reframe online climate and sustainability communication? A data-driven analysis by Debnath, Ramit, Ebanks, Danny, Mohaddes, Kamiar, Roulet, Thomas, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…Identifying drivers of climate misinformation on social media is crucial to climate action. Misinformation comes in various forms; however, subtler strategies,…”
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Reflections from the Co-Editors by Michael Alvarez, R., Katz, Jonathan N.

“…With this last issue of Volume 25 of Political Analysis, our term as co-editors of the journal comes to a close…”
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Internet Voting in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Estonia by Alvarez, R. Michael, Hall, Thad E., Trechsel, Alexander H.

“…Several countries have conducted Internet voting trials in binding public elections over the past decade, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the…”
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Voting Experiences, Perceptions of Fraud, and Voter Confidence by Alvarez, R. Michael, Cao, Jian, Li, Yimeng

“…Objective Assuring voter confidence is important for the legitimacy of democratic elections. In this article, we test four hypotheses about the correlates of…”
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Survey Attention and Self-Reported Political Behavior by Alvarez, R Michael, Li, Yimeng

“…Abstract Survey research methodology is evolving rapidly, as new technologies provide new opportunities. One of the areas of innovation regards the development…”
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Issue Responsiveness in Canadian Politics: Are Parties Responsive to the Public Salience of Climate Change in the Question Period? by Alvarez, R. Michael, Morrier, Jacob

“…This paper explores how politicians respond to the public salience of policy issues when determining which topics to publicly address. Using new data and…”
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The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns by Abrajano, Marisa A., Michael Alvarez, R., Nagler, Jonathan

“…This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant contribution to the literature on Hispanic…”
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Flooding the Vote: Hurricane Katrina and Voter Participation in New Orleans by Sinclair, Betsy, Hall, Thad E., Alvarez, R. Michael

“…To what extent did the extensive flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina affect voter participation in the 2006 mayoral election? This article uses voting record…”
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Why Do Election Results Change after Election Day? The “Blue Shift” in California Elections by Li, Yimeng, Hyun, Michelle, Alvarez, R. Michael

“…The counting of votes in contemporary American elections is usually not completed on Election Night. There has been an increasing tendency for vote shares to…”
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