Robert Vidigal

Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our 2025/26 #AmericasBarometer 🚀, w/ support from
@kellogginstitute.bsky.social!

This partnership combines survey expertise & regional knowledge to continue delivering top-notch comparative data.

📰 Read more from
@vuartsci.bsky.social: t.co/g0PcgUqCsr

I am excited to announce that I’ll be leading the demo for the new #AmericasBarometer data exploration tool! Join me on June 17 @ 11 am Central Time to see it in action.

Make sure to sign up for an early sneak peek! 🚀🌟

What can the new Data Playground do?

📈Show time trends
🌎Compare countries
👥Visualize opinions by gender, education, age, and more
💻No R, no Stata—just clicks

📅Launching soon. Stay tuned. #ComingSoon #AmericasBarometer #PublicOpinion

We’re excited to introduce a refreshed Data Playground — your go-to tool for exploring AmericasBarometer data.

📊 Interactive graphs
🌎 Cross-country comparisons
👥 Insights by age, gender & more

#AmericasBarometer #ComingSoon #DataPlayground #PublicOpinion

The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Thread below.

New at Political Research Quarterly: Our latest study analyzing Latino political engagement & activity on social media, from Marisa Abrajano & Marianna Garcia from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and Aaron Pope, @robertvidigal.bsky.social, Edwin Kamau, @jatucker.bsky.social, & Jonathan Nagler of CSMaP.

Summer School in International Survey Methods

Applications are now open for the 2025 Summer School in International Survey Methods! 🔥

An 8-day intensive program in the 🎶 Music City 🎶 by @LAPOP_Lab, perfect for grad students, faculty, and research practitioners.

Learn more & apply: www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/summer...

@csmapnyu.org in 2022 launched the Bilingual Election Monitor to study Latino online media consumption and how it impacts political beliefs and behaviors. Today, we published our first paper from this project at PNAS Nexus, and we have another one forthcoming at PRQ! 👇

Em artigo que acaba de sair na Opinião Pública demonstro que o elemento definidor da identidade da direita bolsonarista e seus satélites é o discurso antiestablishment e anti-partido, muito mais que questões econômicas ou a pauta de costumes.

www.scielo.br/j/op/a/wTHTf...

My co-editors and I are thrilled to announce that our book on the reorganization of the Latin American political right is finally available for pre-order! In the thread below I briefly present some of the key findings of this edited volume
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www.cambridge.org/br/universit...