There's a lot of great work on misperceptions in IR, but always about what foreign actors want, rather than domestic ones www.amazon.com/Perception-M...
Happy 50th birthday @ssp-mit.bsky.social! 🥂
Security studies wouldn't be the same without you!
Via seven waves of survey data from 2002-2024 (+ 1 survey experiment), we show that FP opinion leaders systematically misperceive Americans as more inward-looking than they really are, underestimating support for:
- Free trade
- Immigration
- Working through IOs
- Playing an active role 🌎
- etc.
Interestingly, the mechanisms here differ from existing findings on domestic politics on projection biases, since the issues elites themselves support the most are the ones they presume the public opposes (and vice versa)
Lots more in the paper! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Meanwhile, there's a lot of great work in AP/CP showing elites misperceive public opinion (by @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awhf.bsky.social @liorsheffer.bsky.social @cskovron.bsky.social @dbroockman.bsky.social @alexanderfurnas.com @timlapira.bsky.social + ∞), but it tends to focus on domestic issues
Congratulations to Leonie Huddy of Stony Brook University on receiving the 2026 Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
Read more about Leonie and all ISPP award winners here: https://bit.ly/4vMtt2X
#ISPP #PoliticalPsychology #LasswellAward
"Voluntary action in International Relations" by Joseph M. Parent and Paul K. MacDonald has recently been published in EJIR and is available online.
Find it here: t1p.de/otzph
🚨 Now out in @bjpols.bsky.social w @busbyj2.bsky.social @jordantama.bsky.social @ckafura.bsky.social:
Do American foreign policy elites know what the public wants?
Partnering with @global-affairs.bsky.social, we show that elites systematically misread the room 🧵
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢 New paper out in @AJPS_Editor with Christian Baehr & Fiona Bare:
"Climate Exposure Drives Firm Political Behavior: Evidence from Earnings Calls and Lobbying Data"
When & how do firms engage in climate politics? 🧵
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Excited to share my new paper w/ @janzilinsky.bsky.social that's conditionally accepted at @ajpseditor.bsky.social 🎉
Is there a general "anti-technology" orientation among Americans? We built a scale and found that worries about social media, AI, and modernity do form a coherent disposition.