Joshua A. Tucker

New York University (NYU)

Professor

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

19

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21

Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 21 Mar 2018
New York University (NYU), Princeton University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), University of Bologna - Faculty of Political Science, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, StudentsStanford, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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social media, political polarization, disinformation, persuasion, fake news, partisan news, literature review

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Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 May 2022 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2022
Center for Social Media and Politics - NYU, New York University (NYU) - Department of Politics, New York University (NYU), New York University (NYU) - New York University, NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 2,416 (10,405)

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YouTube, Recommendation Algorithm, Echo Chambers, Political Polarization, Theory Testing

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A Comparison of Methods in Political Science Text Classification: Transfer Learning Language Models for Politics

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jan 2021
New York University (NYU), Pennsylvania State University, New York University (NYU), New York University Abu Dhabi, NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU) - New York University
Downloads 1,056 (36,833)
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text classification; transfer learning; language models; transformers

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Social Networks and Protest Participation: Evidence from 93 Million Twitter Users

Political Networks Workshops & Conference 2016
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jun 2016
New York University (NYU), NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres - Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 438 (115,248)
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Protest, Social Networks, Political Participation, Charlie Hebdo, Social Media

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Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 May 2022 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2022
New York University (NYU), Center for Social Media and Politics - NYU, New York University (NYU) - Department of Politics, New York University (NYU) - New York University, New York University (NYU) and NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics
Downloads 435 (116,160)

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Ideology estimation, YouTube, Latent variable

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New Approaches to Electoral Volatility: Evidence from Postcommunist Countries

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2009
Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker
Yale University and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 381 (135,341)
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Electoral Volatility, Voting, Elections, Pedersen's Index, post-communist countries, political behavior

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Confident and Skeptical: What Science Misinformation Patterns Can Teach Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Jennifer Jerit, Tine Paulsen and Joshua A. Tucker
State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, New York University and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 355 (146,303)
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Science, Vaccination, Global Warming, GM Foods, Experts, Misinformation, Science Misinformation

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It's the Bribe, Stupid! Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2011
Kevin Deegan-Krause, Marko Klasnja and Joshua A. Tucker
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 249 (211,318)

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Corruption, Voting, Political Behavior, Pocketbook, Sociotropic, Economic Voting, Slovakia, Bulgaria

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WhatsApp Increases Exposure to False Rumors but has Limited Effects on Beliefs and Polarization: Evidence from a Multimedia-Constrained Deactivation.

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 May 2023
Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University, NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 220 (238,126)
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Social Media, Misinformation, WhatsApp, Elections, Global South

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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube During the 2016 US Presidential Election

The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2020
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Apr 2020
University of Copenhagen, iSchool, University of Copenhagen, Center for Social Media and Politics - NYU and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 215 (243,288)
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social media, twitter, youtube, russia, disinformation, propaganda

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After the Party: Legacies and Left-Right Distinctions in Post-Communist Countries

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Sep 2010
Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker
Princeton University - Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 199 (261,165)
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Communist Legacies, Left-Right Placement, Ideology

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Measuring the Ideology of Audiences for Web Links and Domains Using Differentially Private Engagement Data

Buntain, C., Bonneau, R., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. A. (2023). Measuring the Ideology of Audiences for Web Links and Domains Using Differentially Private Engagement Data. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 17(1), 72-83. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22127
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2023
iSchool, New York University (NYU), NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 180 (285,464)

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ideology, differential privacy, noise, facebook, domain audience

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Follow the Leader: Party Cues, Partisans, and Public Opinion in Old and New Democracies

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2009
Ted Brader and Joshua A. Tucker
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 153 (327,960)

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partisanship, party identification, survey experiments, Great Britain, England, Poland, Hungary, post-communist politics, policy positions, public opinion

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Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Nature Human Behaviour 2020, 4, 460-471
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Aug 2022
New York University (NYU) - Department of Psychology, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Mackenzie Presbyterian University - Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Stanford University, University of Kent, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science, University of Sussex, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Leiden - Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Northwestern University - Department of Psychology, UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of Maryland, Peking University - Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, University of Queensland - School of Psychology, affiliation not provided to SSRN, California Institute of Technology - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, University of Regina, University of Oregon - School of Journalism and Communication, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of St. Andrews, University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Law School, Carleton University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, New York University (NYU), University of Cambridge - Department of Psychology, Free University of Amsterdam, Cornell University - Department of Sociology, Carleton University, Stanford University, Stanford University - Department of Psychology and Stanford University
Downloads 136 (360,261)
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COVID-19, health crisis, behaviour change, social sciences, behavioural sciences, perspective

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Network Embedding Methods for Large Networks in Political Science

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Nov 2021
Center for Social Media and Politics - NYU, New York University (NYU), affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU), New York University (NYU) - Center for Data Science, NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU) - New York University
Downloads 129 (375,019)

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Social networks, network embedding, social media, methodology

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Who's the Life of the Party? the Impact of Personal and Party Traits on Partisan Cue-Taking

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2010
Ted Brader, Joshua A. Tucker and Dominik Duell
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, New York University (NYU) and University of Essex
Downloads 115 (408,386)

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partisanship, party cues, political parties, personality, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, survey experiments

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To Moderate, Or Not to Moderate: Strategic Domain Sharing by Congressional Campaigns

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2023
Center for Social Media & Politics, Center for Social Media and Politics - NYU, New York University (NYU) and NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics
Downloads 97 (460,500)
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Campaigns, Elections, Congress, Twitter, Ideology

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Using Social Media Data to Reveal Patterns of Policy Engagement in State Legislatures

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2021
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science, New York University, NYU - Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University (NYU) - Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 95 (466,800)
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state politics, state legislators, social media, text as data

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Political Corruption Traps

APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Posted: 27 Aug 2013
Marko Klasnja, Andrew Little and Joshua A. Tucker
New York University, New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU)

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Corruption, Voting, Multiple Equilibria, Persistence