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Review lit on opinion diffusion #3

Open fsolt opened 3 years ago

fsolt commented 3 years ago

particularly stuff that includes policy

fsolt commented 2 years ago

@byngdeuk lists a few opinion-and-policy diffusion studies at https://github.com/fsolt/diffusion_tolerance/issues/2#issuecomment-937380691

fsolt commented 2 years ago

interesting (though possibly not relevant): Johannes Urpelainen and Alice Tianbo Zhang. 2022. "Electoral Backlash or Positive Reinforcement? Wind Power and Congressional Elections in the United States." Journal of Politics

fsolt commented 2 years ago

totally relevant: Tara Gonsalves. 2021. "Transnational Diffusion and Regional Resistance: Domestic LGBT Association Founding, 1979–2009." Social Forces 99(4):1601–1630 UIowa link

fsolt commented 1 year ago

@Tyhcass C-SoDA comments: How is opinion in one country observable in other countries? Cultural leadership? Policy? Prominent political leaders?

Or, rather, is opinion driven by (common) domestic factors?

Latent space model (of opinion leadership)?

What's the story?

fsolt commented 1 year ago

@sammo3182: these are valid comments, but there are many possible stories. Media is a method of transmission, especially of policy adoption (Taiwan recognizing gay marriage got big coverage). We can use particular surveys' questions for identification(?). Issue is too many stories, not too few: we need some empirics to help us discipline this storytelling.

fsolt commented 1 year ago

@hey-ikon on C-SoDA: it is tricky to think about opinion diffusion, it isn't directly observable.

@fsolt: first steps are clear—see if there is evidence that opinion diffuses when domestic factors are controlled. If not, then write up that it doesn't. If it does, then we can try to figure out how.

To test whether opinion diffuses requires contiguity: geographical, linguistic, trade. Sam did a really nice paper on linguistic connections between dyads. Consider pulling him in? At the very least, talk to him about his data.