George Georgarakis | @gngeorgarakis.bsky.social
@gngeorgarakisMoritz Schlick Postdoc Fellow @PolCom_Vienna. Experiments, behavioral social science, cats. In random order. PhD in PolSci @Columbia & @SciencesPo. - he/him/his
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Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892
🚨How should we design surveys to capture opinion in fast-changing contexts or within hard-to-reach communities? 🚨 My paper, conditionally accepted at @PolAnalysis, develops a method that leverages LLMs and adaptive algorithms to construct surveys that evolve with user input.
Trust in scientists is still polarizing along partisan lines, due to differences in perceived politics & professed superiority vox.com/future-perfect…
🚨 New WP! What are the effects of encouraging people to read IPCC reports? Knowledge of climate change + support for gov action increase BUT no effects on donating real $ to fight climate change. With @thomasjwood and @BrendanNyhan Link: bit.ly/3VfsvfN
Modern presidential elections are marked by striking electoral stability.
🚨 Working paper alert 🚨 “The Limitations of Using Forced Choice in Electoral Conjoint Experiments” osf.io/qwjat Most conjoint experiments force participants to select between candidates, ignoring real-world choices like abstention or protest votes. 🧵 Quick thread
This is my favorite chart from my piece on the 2022 elections. aei.org/research-produ…
IRBs are used to provide institutional cover and not protect human subjects. In my first year at Dartmouth I was told that I wasn't *allowed* to run nationally representative surveys because they wanted to settle a lawsuit in Montana. According to the General Counsel running a…
🚨 2024 Election Takeaway: Every Democratic Senate candidate outperformed Kamala Harris. Is the country moving on from Biden-Harris or from Democrats altogether? vox.com/2024-elections…
🚨New WP!🚨 "Antiracism and its Discontents: The Prevalence and Political Influence of Opposition to Antiracism among White Americans" w/ @RobbWiller We find opposition to antiracism is a widespread ideology profoundly shaping US racial politics 🧵 osf.io/preprints/soca…
Now in @apsrjournal: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find they have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…
The semi-final state-level estimates for Presidential vote from CHIP50: chip50.org/blog/semi-fina…
who europeans would vote for in america’s presidential election, by country:
So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces. Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come): science.org/content/articl…
New interactive tool from CHIPO50 to see who will vote for which candidate! This tool allows you to look at how particular slices of the electorate voted in 2020 versus 2024. chip50.org/blog/demograph…
New at @PNASNews with @dbroockman, @chriscaballero_ & @easton_matty: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public." As we head into the last week of the campaign, a good reminder that political practitioners have poor intuitions as to what persuades
New study out today! We had a bunch of Democrats and Republicans do an Ideological Turing Test. People either portrayed themselves or pretended to be from the opposite party, and then another group tried to pick out the real partisans from the fake ones:
Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in @ScienceMagazine! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
🚨 I'm overjoyed to report a new discovery, published in @ScienceMagazine, answering the question of how people from different societies define “democracy.” W/ fantastic coauthors @scottrw630 & @EddySFYeung doi.org/10.1126/scienc… 1/n
🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP @ScienceMagazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), @PNASNews (2x), @NatureHumBehav (2x).
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