Josh Pasek – Associate Professor

Josh Pasek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
Core Faculty, Michigan Institute for Data Science

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More recalled Biden as winning the election

CNN - Breakthrough Project

As the campaign closes, coronavirus remains the main event

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Once again, Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis dominates news about the campaign

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Josh Pasek @jmping ·

4 Oct

The field of Economics needs an intervention this morning ... eek!

Stas Kolenikov @StatStas

Economists doing surveys: laugh, cry, but you can't ignore. https://twitter.com/MortenStostad/status/1577011738092138496

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Timothy Ryan @tjryan02 ·

4 Oct

I'll just leave this here.

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4 Oct

Am I reading this wrong, or have economists just discovered that attitudes can be measured? https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210412119

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Josh Pasek @jmping ·

21 Sep

For those wondering why political scientists are really worried about democracy in the US.

Opinion | Inside the Completely Legal G.O.P. Plot to Destroy American Democracy - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html

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Josh Pasek @jmping ·

31 Aug

And we should expect this trend to continue as maternal mortality and non-viable live births increase post-Dobbs.

Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD @NeilLewisJr

“It’s a ridiculous decline,” Anderson said. “When I saw a 6.6 year decline over two years, my jaw dropped. … I made my staff re-run the numbers to make sure.” https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/31/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline/

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Recent Publications

Exploring the Role of Media Use Within an Integrated Behavioral Model (IBM) Approach to Vote Likelihood

Intersectional invisibility revisited: How group prototypes lead to the erasure and exclusion of Black women

Seeing Blue in Black and White: Race and Perceptions of Officer-Involved Shootings

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Some Deficits and Some Misperceptions: Linking Partisanship With Climate Change Cognitions

When Pundits Weigh In: Do Expert and Partisan Critiques in News Reports Shape Ordinary Individuals’ Interpretations of Polls?

Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign

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Relations Between Variables and Trends Over Time in Rdd Telephone and Nonprobability Sample Internet Surveys

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A Review of Conceptual Approaches and Empirical Evidence on Probability and Nonprobability Sample Survey Research

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When Polls Disagree: How Competitive Results and Methodological Quality Shape Partisan Perceptions of Polls and Electoral Predictions

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Social Media as an Alternative to Surveys of Opinions About the Economy

Investigating harmful and helpful effects of watching season 2 of 13 Reasons Why: Results of a two-wave U.S. panel survey

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Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces

Why Don’t Tweets Consistently Track Elections? Lessons from Linking Twitter and Survey Data Streams

The Stability of Economic Correlations over Time: Identifying Conditions under Which Survey Tracking Polls and Twitter Sentiment Yield Similar Conclusions

Motivations for Participation in an Online Social Media Community for Diabetes

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Linking Knowledge Networks Web Panel Data with External Data

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Linking Individual-Level Survey Data to Consumer File Records

It’s not my consensus: Motivated reasoning and the sources of scientific illiteracy

Negativity and Positivity Biases in Economic News Coverage: Traditional vs. Social Media

Perceptions of health risks of cigarette smoking: A new measure reveals widespread misunderstanding

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