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  • 2017 Sep 22

    Todd Rogers, Julia Minson, & Ryan Buell, Harvard Kennedy School

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS S050

    Abstract:

    Talk I: The Belief in a Favorable Future
    Todd Rogers (HKS) shows that people believe that future others’ preferences and beliefs will change to align with their own.  People holding a view (e.g., support President Trump) are more likely than those holding the opposing view (e.g., oppose President Trump) to believe that future others will share their view.  Six studies show this belief in a favorable future (BFF) for political views, scientific beliefs, and entertainment and product preferences.  BFF can...

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  • 2017 Sep 08

    Michael Tomz, Stanford University

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS S050
    Abstract: This paper examines how military alliances affect public support for war. Our survey-based experiments show that alliance commitments powerfully influence mass preferences about whether to intervene abroad. Both written and unwritten alliances had massive effects on support for sending U.S. forces. Two mechanisms drove these effects: concerns about reputation in international affairs, and concerns about the morality of leaving an ally hanging. The effects of alliances proved robust across a wide range... Read more about Michael Tomz, Stanford University
  • 2017 Feb 10

    Marc Meredith, University of Pennsylvania

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS S050

    Title: "The Civic Counterculture? Understanding Attitudes Toward Democracy" (joint work with Guy Grossman, Dorothy Kronick, and Matthew Levendusky)

    Abstract: This is a work-in-progress pre-analysis plan for a survey experiment that we are constructing to shed light on Americans views towards democratic norms. This experiment is motivated by a number examples following the 2016 elections in which elected officials took actions that appeared inconsistent with voters' choices. We attempt to address three questions in this experiment. First, how does the public view efforts to weaken...

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