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Andrew Trexler
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Assistant professor. | He/his. | Political communication, political behavior, news media, public opinion, survey methods. | atrexler.com | Opinions own.
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Very excited to see this out at @bjpols.bsky.social! In this article, I show that contemporary political news coverage makes it challenging for readers to learn information that is helpful for democratic accountability, even for very politically engaged audiences.

A brief summary:
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 2d
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The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News - https://cup.org/461vHAT

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#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing political news consumption. It highlights the dependency of outlets on audience preferences, with coverage focusing on partisan conflict and specialized jargon.
February 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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bjpols.bsky.social
NEW -

The Unequal Challenge of Learning from Under-Informative News - https://cup.org/461vHAT

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#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing political news consumption. It highlights the dependency of outlets on audience preferences, with coverage focusing on partisan conflict and specialized jargon.
February 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
a new working paper: osf.io/3dq2x_v1!

we administered an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year olds, their parents, and a national sample to assess the extent to which values can provide a foundation for political ideology.

we find that values structure political preferences among children.
Values and Political Preferences in Childhood Christopher Johnston, Martín Opertti, Turgut Keskintürk February, 2026 Studies of youth political development focus primarily on political socialization and salient events, while paying relatively less attention to important individual differences among children themselves, such as values. We administer an original survey to a sample of 10-to-12-year-olds and show that the distribution of their values is similar to that of their parents and a diverse sample of adults; that children's value priorities strongly predict their political preferences; and that one dimension of value priorities continues to predict political preferences even after adjusting for parental values and political preferences. Taken together, our findings suggest that pre-teens already use their own value priorities to organize their political attitudes, which emphasizes the importance of children's independent attributes in their political development, and lends support to the idea that personal values provide a foundation for political ideology. estimated value positions in Schwartz value space. the effects of conservation and self-enhancement values on political evaluations and issues.
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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aecoppock.bsky.social
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
January 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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psjeditor.bsky.social
BLOG POST!

Explore the latest PSJ blog post examining how expanded mail voting relates to voter access, political efficacy, and trust in government.

By Andrew Trexler, Marayna Martinez & Mallory E. SoRelle

Read here: psjblog.net/2026/01/21/v...

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced states to rethink election administration across the United States. To make voting safer, many states expanded mail voting options like no-excuse absentee voti…
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January 21, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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sfcpoll.bsky.social
So cool -> Quebec researchers tracked eye dilation + sweat when showing respondents political issues to see if they aligned with results from standard poll questions on issue importance. They did! And suggest asking people to choose their top issue is most reliable academic.oup.com/poq/article/...
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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joshmccrain.bsky.social
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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amengel.bsky.social
Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle.

Deadline Oct. 22.

www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants
Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.
www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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tiagoventura.bsky.social
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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UW-Madison PoliSci is hiring in environmental politics! Posting is linked below. I am not on the committee but am very happy to answer any questions I can about the position, department, Madison, etc.
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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bcburden.bsky.social
My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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polcomm.bsky.social
📅 Only one week to go until APSA 2025!

We’ve prepared a clear and concise visual program for the #PolComm division.

👉 Download the PDF and highlight the sessions you don’t want to miss:

shorturl.at/LVuuw
September 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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experimentsapsa.bsky.social
There's a new issue of the section newsletter out! This one's on sample considerations in experiments: professional survey-takers, LLM usage, rural contexts, and more!

connect.apsanet.org/s42/newslett...
screenshot of the top of the first page of the fall 2025 experiments section newsletter
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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psjeditor.bsky.social
Voting access reforms in 2020 aimed to protect democracy during a pandemic, but how did they shape political efficacy and trust? This PSJ article explores the answer.

By @atrexler.com, @maraynam.bsky.social & Mallory E. SoRelle

Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
August 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ericpolisci.bsky.social
Stony Brook is hiring in political psychology (assistant professor). Please Share! Feel free to reach out if you have question. For more information: apply.interfolio.com/170193
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jongreen.bsky.social
new working paper: osf.io/7v4zj

tl;dr: taking the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor seriously requires taking the nuances of actually-existing markets seriously, which means thinking about tradeoffs between transaction costs and conformity costs. applied to misinfo and ideological belief systems.
title: Informal (De-)Regulation in the Marketplace of Ideas abstract: Democratic societies face tradeoffs regarding the production, acquisition, and exchange of information and ideas. On the one hand, they benefit from institutions that reduce the transaction costs citizens must pay to acquire reliable information they can use to pursue their goals; on the other hand, those institutions impose conformity costs on citizens’ belief systems. This has traditionally placed civil institutions such as the media, the scientific community, and political parties in the role of informal regulators, which set norms regarding the (combinations of) beliefs citizens should or should not express in lieu of the government setting rules regarding the beliefs citizens can or cannot express. I argue that the interaction of heightened political sectarianism with changes in the structure of the public sphere have weakened these institutions and altered the informal regulations that govern the proverbial “marketplace of ideas.” This framework illuminates recent phenomena of scholarly concern – namely, the health of the political information environment and the evolution of contemporary political ideologies.
August 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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aapor.bsky.social
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer aapor.org/statements/a...
AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer - AAPOR
On behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), we write to express deep concern regarding the removal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McE...
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August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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garlicksauce.bsky.social
Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers: Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with the universe of state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.
Policy agendas of the American state legislatures - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Policy agendas of the American state legislatures
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kjephd.bsky.social
In my view, the window to *forestall* autocratization of the US political system is basically closed. We're now in the consolidation phase of a new authoritarian constitutional settlement. The question is how far it'll get (will it achieve its apparent goal of fascism?) & at what pace.

Here's why:
July 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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rachelporter.bsky.social
Our article introducing CampaignView is now officially online! Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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mattgraham.bsky.social
Causal evidence that "the proliferation of surveys may lead to lower response rates" doi.org/10.1093/jssa...
July 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Academics/adults with backpacks:

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I have a North Face 'Hotshot' backpack that has served me faithfully for 10+ years but is finally wearing out, so I need to replace & want to consider options.

Some parameters:
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July 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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For several years, I have marked the 4th by reading Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech on the subject (a copy here: loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...), sometimes alone, sometimes aloud to family or friends.

This year it feels especially poignant. A few passages that particularly stick with me today:
A portrait photograph of Frederick Douglass, circa 1879. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
July 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM