Josh Pasek

Does Campaign-Specific Political Knowledge Matter?

August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

While political scientists have long recognized the strong relationship between general political knowledge and voter turnout, less work has attempted to explore how knowing generalized political facts -- such as the proportion of Congress required to override a presidential veto -- might relate to participation. One possible mechanism linking the…

How Do Self-Selected Internet Samples Differ from Representative Samples?

August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

Using opt-in Internet samples for political data is far less expensive than most forms of traditional probability sampling. In some analyses of opt-in samples, researchers have found that opt-in sample estimators provide good approximations of electoral results. In others, the differences have been both highly significant and substantively important. These…

Candidate Name Order

August, 2011August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

Do candidates listed earlier on the ballot perform better than those listed later? This research seeks to understand how candidate performance relates to ballot placement through an evaluation of the influence of name order in California general elections. Project has been conducted in conjunction with: Daniel Schneider, Stanford University Alex…

Influence of Social Media on Political Information Environment

August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

This project seeks to understand how online social networks influence the political information environment of their users. Through a combination of surveys and Facebook application data, this research is assessing how much information is shared over Facebook, how much of that information reflects a user's pre-existing beliefs, how users perceive…

Update to weights Package

August, 2011August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

Recently updated to my weights package on CRAN to version 0.70. Of particular note is a new function called nalevs, which recodes a variable to range from 0-1, and can do useful functions such as set some values of a factor to missing, others to 0, 1, .5, or the…

Social Media and Politics

August, 2011June, 2014 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

University of Michigan - Today social media have become an integral part of the political process. Candidates tweet to constituents and political revolutions are organized on Facebook. But what kind of a change does social media represent? Or is it a change at all? Social media might just be the…

Now at the University of Michigan

August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

I recently took up my new home at the University of Michigan. I will be based in the department of Communication Studies and will be teaching two courses in the fall semester: one on Social Media and Politics and one on Debating Politics and Science. My office address is: Department…

Anesrake

August, 2011August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

Currently in version 0.70, anesrake is a package in R designed to rake survey data in order to match the specifications of the American National Election Studies.

Weights

August, 2011August, 2011 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

Currently in version 0.70, the weights package in R provides basic tools for quickly analyzing survey data and producing weighted statistics.

Debating Politics and Science

July, 2011October, 2012 by Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek

University of Michigan - Scientific issues have often formed the basis for political debates. But translating science into public policy can be a messy business. As journalists, policy makers, and citizens encounter scientific research, well-established findings are often a matter for contentious political opposition and conflicted public opinion -- witness…

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