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Estimating and evaluating treatment effect heterogeneity: A causal forests approach 估计和评估治疗效果异质性:因果森林方法
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231153080
Li Zheng, Weiwen Yin
In this paper, we introduce the causal forests method (Athey et al., 2019) and illustrate how to apply it in social sciences to addressing treatment effect heterogeneity. Compared with existing parametric methods such as the multiplicative interaction model and traditional semi-/non-parametric estimation, causal forests are more flexible for complex data generating processes. Specifically, causal forests allow for nonparametric estimation and inference on heterogeneous treatment effects in the presence of many moderators. To reveal its usefulness, we revisit existing studies in political science and economics. We uncover new information hidden by original estimation strategies while producing findings that are consistent with conventional methods. Through these replication efforts, we provide a step-by-step practice guide for applying causal forests in evaluating treatment effect heterogeneity.
在本文中,我们介绍了因果森林方法(Athey et al., 2019),并说明了如何将其应用于社会科学,以解决治疗效果的异质性。与现有的参数方法(如乘法交互模型和传统的半/非参数估计)相比,因果森林在复杂的数据生成过程中具有更大的灵活性。具体来说,因果森林允许在存在许多调节因子的情况下对异质性治疗效果进行非参数估计和推断。为了揭示它的有用性,我们回顾了政治学和经济学的现有研究。我们发现了隐藏在原始估计策略中的新信息,同时产生了与传统方法一致的发现。通过这些复制工作,我们为应用因果森林评估治疗效果异质性提供了一步一步的实践指南。
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Electability salience can bias voting decisions 可选举性显著性可能会对投票决定产生偏见
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231159074
William Minozzi, Jonathan Woon
“Electability” received considerable attention during the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, with some critics claiming that the term was code for sexism. From a rational choice perspective, “electability” could affect voting in multiple ways, including via expected utility; previous scholarship suggests that many voters consider it as such. Yet this scholarship ignores the role that salience plays in decision making, and is silent on which sorts of candidate might benefit from the effects of priming electability. To address these issues, we conducted a survey experiment during the 2020 primary season, measuring Democratic primary voters’ preferences for candidates, electability estimates, and candidate rankings. Our experiment manipulated salience by randomizing the order in which preferences and electability were elicited. We show that electability salience caused a substantial increase in the probability that a respondent made decisions based only on electability.
“可选举性”在2020年民主党初选期间受到了相当大的关注,一些批评者声称这个词是性别歧视的代码。从理性选择的角度来看,“可选举性”可能以多种方式影响投票,包括通过预期效用;之前的研究表明,许多选民认为这是事实。然而,这项研究忽略了显著性在决策中所起的作用,也没有提及哪类候选人可能会从启动选举的影响中受益。为了解决这些问题,我们在2020年初选期间进行了一项调查实验,测量了民主党初选选民对候选人的偏好、可选举性估计和候选人排名。我们的实验通过随机化引发偏好和可选举性的顺序来操纵显著性。我们发现,可选举性显著性导致受访者仅根据可选举性做出决定的概率大幅增加。
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Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil 警惕主义与制度:理解巴西对私刑的态度
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680221150389
D. Freire, David B. Skarbek
Why do people support extrajudicial violence? In two survey experiments with respondents in Brazil, we examine which characteristics of lynching scenarios garner greater support for lynching and whether providing different types of information about lynching reduces support for it. We find that people often do support community members to take vengeance. In particular, our analysis finds that people strongly support the use of extrajudicial violence by families of victims against men who sexually assault and murder women and children. We also find that criminal punishment and the threat of vendettas reduce support, but appeals to the human rights of victims have zero effect on support for lynchings. Unlike the U.S. experience with lynchings, race was not observed to play an important role in how respondents answered the survey.
为什么人们支持法外暴力?在对巴西受访者进行的两项调查实验中,我们研究了私刑场景的哪些特征获得了对私刑的更大支持,以及提供关于私刑的不同类型的信息是否会减少对它的支持。我们发现,人们经常支持社区成员复仇。特别是,我们的分析发现,人们强烈支持受害者家属对性侵和谋杀妇女和儿童的男子使用法外暴力。我们还发现,刑事处罚和仇杀威胁减少了支持,但对受害者人权的呼吁对支持私刑没有任何影响。与美国私刑的经历不同,种族在受访者回答调查的方式中没有发挥重要作用。
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Thematic analysis of in-group and out-group debates in an online right-wing extremist community 网络右翼极端主义社区群体内外辩论的主题分析
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231152424
J. Hardy
The resurgence of Right-Wing Extremism (RWE) has become a cause for concern in Western countries during the 21st century. An increase in white nationalist sentiment in recent years has provided impetus to understand the contemporary drivers of far-right ideology. This study examines in-group and out-group debates on Stormfront.org, which is the largest and oldest online community dedicated to white nationalism and extreme right-wing political views. It used a dataset of approximately 1m posts collected from the open Opposing Views forum on Stormfront from the period 2001 to 2020 to create a corpus of over 195m words for thematic analysis. A Natural Language Processing (NLP) model was used to analyze the corpus, and a supervised phrase mining algorithm was used to identify key topics in the debate. The study finds that key issues being debated between in-group and out-group members of the Stormfront online community relate to perceptions of white identity, African American identity, racial issues, conservative political issues, and the history and politics of the United States. These findings highlight the issues of mutual importance to in-group and out-group members and identify opportunities for further research into the ideology of online RWE communities.
右翼极端主义(RWE)的死灰复燃已成为21世纪西方国家关注的问题。近年来白人民族主义情绪的高涨,为理解极右翼意识形态的当代驱动因素提供了动力。这项研究调查了Stormfront.org上的群内和群外辩论。Stormfront.org是致力于白人民族主义和极右翼政治观点的最大、最古老的在线社区。它使用了从2001年至2020年期间从Stormfront公开的反对观点论坛收集的大约100万篇帖子的数据集,创建了一个超过1.95亿字的语料库,用于主题分析。使用自然语言处理(NLP)模型分析语料库,并使用监督短语挖掘算法识别辩论中的关键主题。研究发现,在Stormfront网络社区的群内和群外成员之间争论的关键问题涉及对白人身份、非裔美国人身份、种族问题、保守政治问题以及美国历史和政治的看法。这些发现突出了群体内和群体外成员相互重要的问题,并确定了进一步研究在线RWE社区意识形态的机会。
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Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil 为什么纲领党减少犯罪暴力:来自巴西的理论和证据
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231155615
Camilo Nieto-Matiz, Natán Skigin
Extensive research suggests that electoral competition and power alternations increase violence in weakly institutionalized democracies. Yet, little is known about how political parties affect violence and security. We theorize that the type of party strengthened in elections shapes security outcomes and argue that the rise of programmatic parties, at the expense of clientelistic parties, can significantly reduce violence. In contexts of large-scale criminal violence, programmatic parties are less likely to establish alliances with coercive actors because they possess fewer incentives and greater coordination capacity. Focusing on Brazil, we use a regression discontinuity design that leverages the as-if random assignment of election winners across three rounds of mayoral races. We find that violent crime decreased in municipalities where programmatic parties won coin-flip elections, while it increased in those where clientelistic parties triumphed. Our findings suggest that whether electoral competition increases violence depends on the type of party that wins elections.
广泛的研究表明,在制度薄弱的民主国家,选举竞争和权力交替会增加暴力。然而,人们对政党如何影响暴力和安全知之甚少。我们认为,在选举中得到加强的政党类型决定了安全结果,并认为以牺牲客户主义政党为代价的纲领性政党的崛起可以显著减少暴力。在大规模犯罪暴力的背景下,方案方不太可能与胁迫行为者建立联盟,因为他们拥有更少的激励措施和更大的协调能力。以巴西为中心,我们使用了回归不连续性设计,该设计利用了三轮市长竞选中选举获胜者的随机分配。我们发现,在纲领性政党赢得掷硬币选举的城市,暴力犯罪有所减少,而在客户主义政党获胜的城市,则有所增加。我们的调查结果表明,选举竞争是否会增加暴力取决于赢得选举的政党类型。
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Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians 谁在推特,有多自由?来自德国政治家精英调查的证据
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680221144237
P. Bauer, Alejandro Ecker, Michael Imre, Camille Landesvatter, Sonja Malich
Twitter has become one of the primary platforms for politicians to interact with the public. Consequently, research into politicians’ Twitter usage has proliferated with attempts at measuring increasingly complex concepts such as ideology or policy attitudes. So far, many of these studies either implicitly or explicitly assume that politicians’ Twitter accounts are operated by politicians themselves and that politicians are free to present their “true” attitudes and positions. We conducted an elite survey in Germany and present evidence that these assumptions only partially hold true. In our sample, only around a third of Twitter accounts are operated by the corresponding politician alone. In our view, this is a conservative estimate and should further decrease as political elites’ social media strategies professionalize over the coming years. We also find that most politicians state that there are no party guidelines regarding Twitter and that their tweets are not checked by a central authority in the party. We discuss the implications of our findings for research on social media in general.
推特已经成为政治家与公众互动的主要平台之一。因此,对政治家使用Twitter的研究激增,试图衡量意识形态或政策态度等日益复杂的概念。到目前为止,这些研究中的许多都或隐或明地假设政治家的Twitter账户是由政治家自己操作的,并且政治家可以自由地表达他们的“真实”态度和立场。我们在德国进行了一项精英调查,并提供证据表明,这些假设只是部分成立。在我们的样本中,只有大约三分之一的Twitter账户是由相应的政客单独运营的。在我们看来,这是一个保守的估计,随着政治精英的社交媒体策略在未来几年的专业化,这一数字应该会进一步下降。我们还发现,大多数政客都表示,没有关于Twitter的政党指导方针,他们的推文也没有受到党内中央机构的检查。我们讨论了我们的发现对一般社交媒体研究的影响。
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引用次数: 2
Social contact and attitudes toward outsiders: The case of Japan 社会交往与对外人态度——以日本为例
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680221134200
Y. Horiuchi, Yoshikuni Ono
Previous studies have shown that people oppose refugee resettlement more strongly after being exposed to frames that depict refugees as threatening. However, all people may not perceive such threats the same way. Based on contact theory, we hypothesize that the treatment effects of threatening frames on people’s opposition to refugee resettlement are conditional on their contact experience with foreign-national residents. The results of our pre-registered experiment in Japan indicate that exposure to threatening information does not change attitudes toward refugee resettlement among those living in municipalities where the number of foreign-national residents is rapidly increasing. Combined with the analyses of other subjective measures of contact with foreigners, some suggestive patterns emerge that natives with conscious and positive interactions with outgroup members may be unaffected by anti-refugee rhetoric and threatening frames.
先前的研究表明,人们在接触到将难民描绘成威胁的框架后,会更加强烈地反对重新安置难民。然而,并非所有人都以同样的方式看待这种威胁。基于接触理论,我们假设威胁框架对人们反对难民安置的治疗效果取决于他们与外籍居民的接触经验。我们在日本进行的预先登记实验的结果表明,接触威胁性信息并没有改变居住在外国居民数量迅速增加的城市的人们对难民重新安置的态度。结合对与外国人接触的其他主观测量的分析,出现了一些暗示性的模式,即与外部群体成员有意识和积极互动的本地人可能不受反难民言论和威胁框架的影响。
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引用次数: 1
Women bureaucrats and petty corruption. Experimental evidence from Ghana 女官僚和小腐败。来自加纳的实验证据
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231161161
Sarah Brierley, Miguel M. Pereira
More women in public institutions are correlated with lower levels of corruption. However, this relationship is thought to be context specific, and the mechanisms that underlie it remain unclear. We conduct two survey experiments to investigate whether and why end-users expect women bureaucrats to be less corrupt in Ghana. Our results show that citizens do not expect women bureaucrats to be less likely to solicit bribes than men. This result holds across bureaucrats with different levels of experience in the public sector and respondents who have and have not paid a bribe. Our second experiment shows that citizens expect men and women bureaucrats to distribute equal shares of their salaries with their extended families. We argue that equality in financial pressures explains why bribe-taking rates may be similar across genders. Our results cast doubt on the idea that women bureaucrats will reduce petty corruption in countries where corruption is pervasive.
在公共机构任职的妇女越多,腐败程度就越低。然而,这种关系被认为是特定于环境的,其背后的机制尚不清楚。我们进行了两项调查实验,以调查最终用户是否以及为什么期望加纳的女性官僚不那么腐败。我们的研究结果表明,公民并不认为女性官员比男性官员更不可能收受贿赂。这一结果适用于在公共部门拥有不同经验水平的官僚,以及是否行贿的受访者。我们的第二个实验表明,公民期望男性和女性官员在他们的大家庭中分配平等的工资份额。我们认为,经济压力的平等解释了为什么不同性别的受贿率可能相似。我们的研究结果让人怀疑,在腐败普遍存在的国家,女性官僚会减少轻微腐败的想法。
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Public perceptions of local influence 公众对当地影响力的看法
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680231152421
Joshua Hochberg, Eitan Hersh
Who do people think are influential in their own community? This question is important for understanding topics such as social networks, political party networks, civic engagement, and local politics. At the same time as research on these topics has grown, measurement of public perceptions of local influence has dried up. Years ago, researchers took active interest in the question of community influence. They found that most ordinary Americans could identify a person who they thought had influence in their community. Respondents usually named business leaders. Where does the public stand today? In three different ways, we ask respondents who has local influence. The vast majority of respondents today cannot think of anyone. Those who do identify someone as influential rarely choose a businessperson. This article aims to reintroduce the public opinion of community influence and situate findings in related scholarship.
人们认为谁在他们自己的社区中有影响力?这个问题对于理解社会网络、政党网络、公民参与和地方政治等主题很重要。与此同时,随着对这些话题的研究越来越多,对公众对地方影响力的看法的衡量却越来越少。多年前,研究人员对社区影响的问题产生了积极的兴趣。他们发现,大多数普通美国人都能认出他们认为在社区中有影响力的人。受访者通常是商业领袖。公众现在的立场是什么?我们以三种不同的方式询问在当地有影响力的受访者。如今,绝大多数受访者想不起任何人。那些认为某人有影响力的人很少选择商人。本文旨在重新介绍公众对社区影响力的看法,并将相关学术研究的结果进行综述。
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Endorsements from Republican politicians can increase confidence in U.S. elections 共和党政客的支持可以增加人们对美国大选的信心
IF 2.7 3区 社会学 Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20531680221148967
Katherine Clayton, Robb Willer
Since the 2020 U.S. presidential election, perceptions of the validity of the outcome and broader trust in the American electoral process have reached historically low levels among Republicans. While this trend has potentially harmful consequences for democratic stability, there is little research on how beliefs that an election was fair—and trust in the electoral process more generally—can be restored. In a preregistered survey experiment (n = 2101), we find that viewing real messages from Republican politicians defending the legitimacy of the 2020 election increased faith in the election’s outcome and in the broader electoral process among Republican voters, compared to either a neutral control condition or to comparable messages from Democratic politicians. These effects are statistically mediated by shifts in voters’ perceptions of elite Republican opinion about the 2020 election, highlighting a potentially useful intervention for efforts to restore faith in elections going forward. Notably, exposure to messages from Republican politicians affirming the election’s legitimacy did not significantly decrease support for the Republican Party, suggesting that Republican politicians who endorse the 2020 election results might not face backlash from voters.
自2020年美国总统大选以来,共和党人对选举结果有效性的看法和对美国选举进程的更广泛信任达到了历史最低水平。虽然这一趋势对民主稳定有潜在的有害影响,但很少有研究表明如何恢复对选举公平的信念,以及对选举过程的普遍信任。在一项预先登记的调查实验中(n=2101),我们发现,与中立的控制条件或民主党政客的类似信息相比,观看共和党政客为2020年选举合法性辩护的真实信息,会增加共和党选民对选举结果和更广泛的选举过程的信心。从统计数据来看,这些影响是由选民对共和党精英对2020年大选看法的转变所介导的,这突出表明,这是一种潜在的有用干预措施,有助于恢复人们对未来选举的信心。值得注意的是,接触到共和党政客确认选举合法性的信息并没有显著减少对共和党的支持,这表明支持2020年选举结果的共和党政客可能不会面临选民的强烈反对。
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