Research on the economic backgrounds of politicians is once again flourishing in political
science. In this article, we describe the economic characteristics that scholars have recently …

People in political decision-making across the globe tend to be much older than the average
voter. As such, parliaments and cabinets are unrepresentative of the larger population. This …

How can we elicit honest responses in surveys? Conjoint analysis has become a popular
tool to address social desirability bias (SDB), or systematic survey misreporting on sensitive …

Candidate choice survey experiments in the form of conjoint or vignette experiments have
become a standard part of the political science toolkit for understanding the effects of …

Political scientists frequently interpret the results of conjoint experiments as reflective of
majority preferences. In this article, we show that the target estimand of conjoint …

Scholars and pundits fear that the American public's commitment to democracy is declining
and that citizens are willing to embrace candidates who would trample democratic …

Minority groups have long been underrepresented in politics. Support for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and the incidence of LGBT candidates have …

Although a growing body of research suggests that the constabularization of the military for
domestic policing is counterproductive, this increasingly prevalent policy has nonetheless …

To what extent does exposure to immigration condition the types of immigrants citizens are
willing to admit? Extending the conjoint approach adopted by Hainmueller and Hopkins (Am …

Conjoint experiments aiming to estimate average marginal component effects and related
quantities have become a standard tool for social scientists. However, existing solutions for …