Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Conjoint survey experiments have become a popular method for analyzing multidimensional
preferences in political science. If properly implemented, conjoint experiments can obtain …

Hyperparameters critically influence how well machine learning models perform on unseen,
out-of-sample data. Systematically comparing the performance of different hyperparameter …

Political scientists have increasingly deployed conjoint survey experiments to understand
multidimensional choices in various settings. In this paper, we show that the average …

Abstract Ever since the Great Recession, public debt has become politicised. Some
research suggests that citizens are fiscally conservative, while other research shows that …

Economic costs are a central political obstacle to investing in climate change mitigation and
adaptation measures. Several studies now demonstrate that as costs increase, voters are …

In recent decades, governments in many Western democracies have shown a remarkable
consensus in pursuing fiscal austerity measures during periods of strained public finances …

Governments have repeatedly adjusted fiscal policy in recent decades. We examine the
political effects of these adjustments in Europe since the 1990s using both district‐level …

What are the political effects of fiscal consolidations? Theoretical considerations suggest
that consolidations should reduce the public's support for their governments, but empirical …

The COVID‐19 public health pandemic has seen governments spend trillions of dollars to
limit the spread of the COVID‐19 virus as well as to soften the economic blow from the …