Are narratives as influential in gaining the attention of policymakers as expert information,
including for complex, technical policy domains such as artificial intelligence (AI) policy …

A growing body of literature investigates whether legislators show biases in their
constituency communication contingent upon constituent traits. However, we know little …

There are both negative and positive stereotypes about public sector workers. Most studies
focus on negative stereotypes, like the idea that public servants are lazy. We, however, do …

Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) claim to be particularly responsive to people's needs
and have been identified as a major source of disinformation. The present contribution sets …

What do political scientists think about research ethics? What research practices do they find
acceptable? Using a survey conducted with the American Political Science Association, we …

Discrimination by political elites has been identified in a variety of earlier studies. However,
research about discrimination by street-level bureaucrats has more mixed findings. To …

The American Political Science Association recently cautioned against the use of
misinformation (giving research participants false information about the state of the world) in …

Researchers are often interested in whether discrimination on the basis of racial cues
persists above and beyond discrimination on the basis of nonracial attributes that decision …

This introduction sets out the context for this symposium, which is the discontent expressed
by UK MPs and the Speaker of the House of Commons in March 2021 about a research …

Research participants are often deceived for methodological reasons. However, assessing
the ethical acceptability of an individual study that uses deception is not straightforward. The …