@beth_simas

Political scientist at Texas A&M University. Reluctant tweeter. https://xitter.cf/t.co/vBPhlIILNw

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Joined December 2014
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So excited this out
American Political Science Review@apsrjournalSep 4
From our FirstView: Measuring Partisanship and Representation in Online Congressional Communications by @MichaelRKistner, @MJHeseltine, @RobertAlvarez05, Maya Fitch, @Lucas_Lothamer, and @beth_simas. doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
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The Politics Guys@PoliticsGuysAug 13
Mike talks with father-and-son political scientists Kirby & Spencer Goidel about their new book, The Trump Realignment. They discuss how and why Trump transformed the GOP, whether Trumpism will outlast Trump, and lots more. tinyurl.com/4mpa4jst
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Political Analysis@polanalysisAug 13
Currently in FirstView: In “Let Them Eat Pie: Addressing Sample Selection in Multiparty Elections,” Ali Kagalwala, Thiago Moreira, Guy Whitten, and Yongzhi Xu introduce a maximum likelihood approach that accounts for sample selection biases in a compositional setting.
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Our next candidate is Lucia Lopez. Lucia’s research explains how public opinion and public policy intersect, particularly in the domain of welfare. Her work is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rapoport Family Foundation. Find out more at Lucia-Lopez.com.
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NEW ISSUE from @JEPS_ed - Journal of Experimental Political Science - Volume 12 - Issue 2 - Summer 2025 - cup.org/4k0yuP0 Every article in this issue is #OpenAccess.
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This @TheLawmakers working paper from @MichaelRKistner, Robert Alvarez, @Lucas_Lothamer, @Maya_Fitch12, @MJHeseltine, and @beth_simas examines how congressional communications have evolved since the onset of the social media era: thelawmakers.org/legislative…
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LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog24 Mar 2025
There is no evidence that perceived sexism influences candidates’ electability finds @beth_simas of @tamu blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…

There is no evidence that perceived sexism influences candidates’ electability | LSE United States...

While women may be seen as being less electable than men, these penalties do not seem to be due to people feeling that others are sexist towards them.

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LSE USAPP blog@LSEUSAblog18 Mar 2025
There is no evidence that perceived sexism influences candidates’ electability finds @beth_simas of @tamu blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…

There is no evidence that perceived sexism influences candidates’ electability | LSE United States...

While women may be seen as being less electable than men, these penalties do not seem to be due to people feeling that others are sexist towards them.

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A summary of some of my recent work blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20…

There is no evidence that perceived sexism influences candidates’ electability | LSE United States...

While women may be seen as being less electable than men, these penalties do not seem to be due to people feeling that others are sexist towards them.

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✅Now published! "The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments" w/ Scott Clifford Open-Access: doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.20 We've got three goals with this one... 👇
Political Analysis@polanalysis14 Mar 2025
The spring issue of Political Analysis is out now and everything is open access! Check it out here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Political Analysis: Volume 33 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Political Analysis - Volume 33 - Issue 2

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This @TheLawmakers working paper from @beth_simas of @BushSchool, @MichaelRKistner of @UHPoliticalSci, @David_J_Hilden of @WestPoint_USMA, and @jmwright432 of @MorningConsult examines why credit claiming is not seen as a credible signal of effectiveness: thelawmakers.org/legislative…
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Journal of Experimental Political Science 2024 was the first year of @JEPS_Ed publishing as a fully #OpenAccess title. You can browse the entire volume without charge here - cup.org/3UBdJiM @APSAtweets
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Now available online. I fail to find evidence that strategic sexism drives perceptions that women are less electable. @PGI_WPSA tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

It’s not me, it’s you? Reexamining how perceived sexism impacts candidate electability

The 2020 US Presidential Election put the focus on the electability of women, and the emerging consensus is that perceptions of the sexism of others contribute to views that women are less able to ...

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PSRM Journal@PSRMJournal17 Sep 2024
❓Are attitudes toward groups influenced by information about the groups' policy views? Are group sentiments exogenous? ➡️ Using three survey experiments, @ScottClif @beth_simas & @jeongkyu_suh give us the answer 👉cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess
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nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

‘Publish or Perish’ is now a card game — not just an academic’s life

Nature - A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that means engaging in a little light plagiarism.

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In light of @KamalaHarris's historic presidential bid 🇺🇸, @PoliticsGenderJ is ungating✨three✨of our virtual special issue collections! Collection #3 on Women, Gender, & 🇺🇸 Presidential Elections cambridge.org/core/journals/… Articles are open access until the end of Sept 2024 📰

Women, Gender, and American Presidential Elections

Women, Gender, and American Presidential Elections

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APSA@APSAtweets5 Jul 2024
Different ideas about right and wrong? You might not prefer that person as your neighbor. A new @apsrjournal article by @jung_jaehee and @ScottClif shows how disagreement over moral values increases social polarization. Read the summary by Dirck de Kleer: ow.ly/wipV50SuSXl

Different Values, Different Consequences -

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer,...

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Debra Leiter@DebraLeiter6 Jun 2024
What do voters predict will occur for the '24 US presidential election? Using citizen forecasts from @verasight_data, @mlewisbeck and I set an early days baseline for the presidential election. In @Center4Politics Crystal Ball. @pol4casting shorturl.at/impbY
Kyle Kondik@kkondik6 Jun 2024
Also in the CRYSTAL BALL this week -- -- @JMilesColeman on Tuesday's primaries centerforpolitics.org/crysta… -- @DebraLeiter & @mlewisbeck on how the public is handicapping the presidential election centerforpolitics.org/crysta…
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Congratulations to Jae-Hee Jung (@jung_jaehee_) and her co-author Scott Clifford (@ScottClif). Their article "Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive." was just published in @apsrjournal. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive | American Political Science Review |...

Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive - Volume 119 Issue 1

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The next stop in my "European tour" is Ghent University. Presenting my coauthored work with @Mo_Nasr_1 and @beth_simas (with brand new findings from a conjoint we completed in the US).
GASPAR@Gaspar_UGent21 May 2024
On Friday 7/06, GASPAR is honored to welcome prof. Somer-Topcu @zeynsom! Join this exciting lecture on candidate gender and position switching by following the registration link: event.ugent.be/registration/…
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