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Sean Westwood

Dartmouth College

Department of Government

Hanover, NH 03755

United States

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1.

Projecting Confidence: How the Probabilistic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2019
Sean Westwood, Solomon Messing and Yphtach Lelkes
Dartmouth College, Pew Research Center - Data Labs and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Political Science
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Political Behavior, Electoral Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Psychology

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The Inseparability of Race and Partisanship in the United States

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2020
Sean Westwood and Erik Peterson
Dartmouth College and Texas A&M University - Department of Political Science
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The Limits of Partisan Loyalty

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2019
Jonathan Mummolo, Erik Peterson and Sean Westwood
Princeton University, Texas A&M University - Department of Political Science and Dartmouth College
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How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Aug 2012
Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing and Sean Westwood
Department of Political Science, Pew Research Center - Data Labs and Dartmouth College
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A Statistical Framework to Engage the Problem of Disengaged Survey Respondents: Measuring Public Support for Partisan Violence

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2024
Matthew Tyler, Justin Grimmer and Sean Westwood
Rice University, Department of Political Science and Dartmouth College
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Which Police Departments Want Reform? Barriers to Evidence-Based Policymaking

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 31 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020
Samantha Goerger, Jonathan Mummolo and Sean Westwood
Princeton University - Department of Political Science, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
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police, field experiments, external validity, site selection bias, policy reform

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No News Is Good News? The Declining Information Value of Broadcast News in America

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2025
Johann Gaebler, Sean Westwood, Shanto Iyengar and Sharad Goel
Harvard University - Department of Statistics, Dartmouth College, Stanford University - Department of Communication and Harvard University
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broadcast news, democratic discourse, long-term media trends, large language models, hierarchical classification

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The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 22, pp. 129-146, 2019
Posted: 28 May 2019
Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, Matthew Levendusky, Neil Malhotra and Sean Westwood
Stanford University - Department of Communication, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Political Science, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth College

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