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One of the most exciting electoral systems papers I've seen in a while 🔥🔥🔥

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In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, @gmcclendon.bsky.social and I present results from a collaborative field experiment with the Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR rules in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections. A🧵:

Check out this 🧵 about my new first view article with @avi-ahuja.bsky.social at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 👇

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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!

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The @bjpols.bsky.social article with Liz Sperber and O’Brien Kaaba is open-access at cup.org/4pYDasw

Young women exhibited lower levels of political participation, confidence about politics, and interest in politics at baseline. Providing them with both information and a boosted sense of efficacy increased their political interest and their political participation.

Then, in the most recent article in @bjpols.bsky.social we unpack the success of the secular efficacy-promoting course, showing that it is largely among young *women* that this course increased electoral participation, compared to information alone and compared to baseline.

The religious efficacy course was no more effective than the information-only course. We explore why in @ajpseditor.bsky.social at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We then scaled using WhatsApp to deliver both secular and religious messages cultivating a sense of efficacy and an info-only course to over 1000 young adults before the 2021 elections . The *secular* efficacy course was most effective at increasing youth electoral participation.

Increasing Youth Political Engagement with Efficacy Not Obligation: Evidence from a Workshop-Based Experiment in Zambia - Political Behavior In many places around the world, young voters participate in politics at low rates. What factors might increase youth political participation? We investigate one possibility: exposure to a religious m...

In the in-person pilot, we found that religious messages cultivating young adult listeners’ sense of efficacy did more to increase intention to participate than religious messages cultivating a sense of obligation to others. These results @polbehavior.bsky.social at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coauthors Liz Sperber, O’Brien Kaaba and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ Caritas Zambia CCMG Zambia @poverty-action.bsky.social and United Council of Churches Zambia

BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

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Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - https://cup.org/4q7MBpt

- @gmcclendon.bsky.social, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba

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Becky Morton cared deeply about graduate training and graduate participation in this annual conference so we honor her with this prize. Thank you to everyone who participated! wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...

Congratulations also to Gary Zhu for an Honorable Mention for his poster “Rule of Law in Autocracy: A Nationwide Field Experiment of Chinese Legal Service Hotlines” @tara-slough.bsky.social

Congratulations to Rex Deng @rexdeng.bsky.social PhD candidate at WashU for winning the 3rd annual Rebecca Morton Poster Prize at the @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social Experiments Conference for his poster “Screened Realities: How Entertainment Fosters Political Compliance in China”

It was a pleasure to host @jean23bean.bsky.social yesterday for a meeting of the NYU interdisciplinary identities & ideologies project. Her book project on “Suspect Citizenship” in France is fascinating. @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @bryantjmoy.bsky.social

Registration is open for the NYU Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science on March 7th and 8th at tinyurl.com/2025-CESS-Re....

We have a great lineup: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica.... Join us! @tara-slough.bsky.social

An award will be given for the best graduate student poster, in honor of Rebecca Morton and her commitment to graduate student advising.

We develop/test an arg that when religious-secular cleavages are sensationalized, rel voters no longer accept cloaked appeals as sufficient signals of rel politicians’ allegiance. Secular ppl maintain the same aversion to overt speech, so incentives to use overt speech increase.

“When Do Voters Reward Overtly Religious Appeals?” w/ Abraham Aldama is forthcoming in the JOP! Building on @albertsonb2.bsky.social, Djupe, Whitehead, Campbell, and others, we examine when politicians might use *overtly* religious rhetoric instead of cloaked appeals. tinyurl.com/bdense4p

We develop/test an arg that when religious-secular cleavages are sensationalized, rel voters no longer accept cloaked appeals as sufficient signals of rel politicians’ allegiance. Secular ppl maintain the same aversion to overt speech, so incentives to use overt speech increase.

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New York, here I come! Tomorrow I am presenting some very fresh results about far-right governments and immigration from a survey in Italy, which finished just last week. Hoping for a good premiere! 🙏

We had a wonderful two days with a set of great posters and papers presented. wp.nyu.edu/cesspoliticals… Thank you to everyone who attended!

Congratulations 🎉 to Iris Acquarone @ietchacq.bsky.social, the winner of this year’s Rebecca Morton poster award from the NYUpolitics -CESS experiments conference for her poster “Strategically Inclusive Parties and Diversity of Representation” ! @tara-slough.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social

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