Experiment

PSJ 54/3 2026-08-04 Original The Effects of Policy Success Versus Failure Narratives Sarah Pralle, Emily Thorson Abstract ABSTRACT While public policies usually have mixed effects, succeeding at some aspects and failing at others, this nuance is often lost in public discourse when political actors like advocacy groups and politicians strategically emphasize either the successes or failures of particular policies. For example, advocacy groups often emphasize the failures of existing policy with the goal of galvanizing public attention and concern. However, little empirical evidence exists assessing the actual causal impact of these different approaches on public attitudes. This paper presents the results of a pre‐registered experiment in which participants watch a TikTok‐style short news video about either the success or failure of one of three different public policies and then are asked about their trust in government to handle the issue, their perceptions of the issue's importance, and their feelings of collective efficacy. While success and failure narratives are both effective at raising an issue's salience, focusing on a policy's failure has the downstream effect of increasing cynicism about the government's ability to address the issue.

JOP 88/3 pp. 1245-1257 2026-07-01 Original Does Informing Partisans About Partisan Bias Reduce Partisan Bias? Diogo Ferrari Abstract This registered report study examines whether informing partisans about the party cue effect reduces partisan bias in policy judgments. It employs an experimental design in which subjects are informed that party cues induce people who identify with a party to take policy positions because the party does and that there are potential drawbacks of relying on party cues instead of reflecting on the policy content. The hypothesis is that those who are aware of the party cue effect will be less likely to rely on party cues when making policy judgments compared to those who are not informed.

PMR — pp. 1-29 2026-06-28 Original The impact of public agency representation on citizen perception in the face of technological discrimination Younghyun Cho, James E. Wright, Gregory A. Porumbescu

JOP — 2026-06-16 Original The Effects of Religious Communication on Gendered Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Colombia Radha Sarkar, Ana Sofia Elverdin, Sebastian Lucek

PAR — 2026-06-04 Original Which Type of AI ‐Based Public Services Are Citizens More Willing to Accept? Qing Miao, Lin Han Yu

JOP — 2026-04-29 Original The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras Jesse Acevedo, Francisca Castro Abstract （原文未提供摘要） 中文 大规模移民的动员潜力：来自洪都拉斯的实验证据 Jesse Acevedo, Francisca Castro 摘要 原文未提供摘要 关键词 大规模移民、移民、政治动员、实验证据、洪都拉斯、比较政治