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- Publications
- Influence
Tweeting From Left to Right
- P. Barberá, J. Jost, J. Nagler, J. Tucker, R. Bonneau
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 21 August 2015
We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online… Expand
A New Approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections
- R. Alvarez, J. Nagler
- Economics
- British Journal of Political Science
- 1 January 2000
Whether citizens vote strategically, using their votes to defeat their least-preferred candidate, or vote sincerely, voting for their first choice among the alternatives, is a question of… Expand
When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multiparty Elections
- R. Alvarez, J. Nagler
- Economics
- 1998
Theory: The spatial model of elections can better be represented by using conditional logit models which consider the position of the parties in issue spaces than by multinomial logit models which… Expand
Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States
- Jan E. Leighley, J. Nagler
- Political Science
- 24 November 2013
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices… Expand
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Scobit: An Alternative Estimator to Logit and Probit
- J. Nagler
- Economics
- 1 February 1994
Logit and probit, the two most common techniques for estimation of models with a dichotomous dependent variable, impose the assumption that individuals with a probability of .5 of choosing either of… Expand
Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook
- Andrew Guess, J. Nagler, J. Tucker
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science Advances
- 1 January 2019
Fake news sharing in 2016 was rare but significantly more common among older Americans. So-called “fake news” has renewed concerns about the prevalence and effects of misinformation in political… Expand
The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests
- P. Barberá, Ning Wang, +4 authors Sandra González-Bailón
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 30 November 2015
Social media have provided instrumental means of communication in many recent political protests. The efficiency of online networks in disseminating timely information has been praised by many… Expand
Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election
- J. Nagler, R. Alvarez
- Political Science
- 1 August 1995
Theory: Theories of presidential elections (economic voting and spatial issue and ideology models), combined with the popular explanation of "angry voting," are used to account for voter choice in… Expand
Strategic Voting In British Elections
- R. Alvarez, Frederick J. Boehmke, J. Nagler
- Political Science
- 1 March 2006
In this paper we examine the extent to which voters engage in strategic behavior. Our contribution is accounting for the context in which voters have the opportunity to behave in a strategic fashion.… Expand
Where Is the Schema? Going Beyond the “S” Word in Political Psychology
- J. Nagler
- Sociology
- 1 December 1991