Hacker News with Generative AI: Political Science

Experts and Elites Play Fundamentally Different Games (robkhenderson.com)
Experts and elites play fundamentally different games. Misunderstanding this distinction warps how we judge institutions—and who we choose to trust.

Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology

27 points by Bostonian 5 days ago | 6 comments

Conservative Americans consistently distrust science (eurekalert.org)
Conservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview. Compared to liberal Americans, their trust is also lower in fields that contribute to economic growth and productivity. Short interventions aimed at strengthening trust have little effect. This is apparent from new research by social psychologists at the University of Amsterdam, which has now been published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Political Science, Social Psychology, Science, United States

16 points by nabla9 23 days ago | 3 comments

Differential brain activations between partisans when considering food purchases (cambridge.org)
We measured brain activity using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm and conducted a whole-brain analysis while healthy adult Democrats and Republicans made non-hypothetical food choices.

Neuroscience, Political Science, Food Consumption, fMRI, Psychology

4 points by PaulHoule 31 days ago | 0 comments

The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding (cambridge.org)
Why do citizens fail to punish political candidates who violate democratic standards at the ballot box?

Politics, Democracy, Political Science, Voter Behavior

6 points by PaulHoule 39 days ago | 3 comments

The social media communication of Andalusian interest groups (frontiersin.org)
Interest groups, one of the main expressions of the diversity of social interests in the contemporary world, are organizations that serve as channels for bringing social demands to the attention of the political establishment with the aim of influencing the design, discussion, approval, and implementation of public policies.

Social Media, Political Science, Interest Groups, Spain

9 points by PaulHoule 46 days ago | 0 comments

LiquidFeedback – a free software for political opinion formation and decisions (wikipedia.org)
LiquidFeedback is free software for political opinion formation and decision making. The software incorporates insights from social choice theory in order to aggregate opinions more effectively.

Political Science, Free Software, Decision Making

7 points by faebi 54 days ago | 0 comments

Foundations of Geopolitics (wikipedia.org)
The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia (Russian: Основы геополитики: геополитическое будущее России) is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin.

Geopolitics, Russia, Political Science, International Relations, Books

6 points by derbOac 56 days ago | 1 comments

Local social spending and political dissatisfaction of the economically deprived (frontiersin.org)
Previous research demonstrates that local conditions are highly visible and proximate for citizens and thus have a distinct impact on political attitude formation. However, we still lack knowledge of the interplay of the local and the individual level. In this study, we examine how a specific group (economically deprived individuals) responds to local social spending in the formation of political dissatisfaction.

Political Science, Social Policy, Economics, Public Policy

47 points by PaulHoule 71 days ago | 46 comments

My Status Circles (overcomingbias.com)
Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles. And relative to conservatives, liberals care more about their outer circle folks.

Social Psychology, Political Science, Bias

26 points by galfarragem 93 days ago | 12 comments

The Soviet Collapse: Grain and Oil by Yegor Gaidar [pdf] (2007) (tamilnation.org)

Soviet Union, History, Economics, Political Science

24 points by MrBuddyCasino 119 days ago | 14 comments

Political Bias in Large Language Models: Insights Across Topic Polarization (arxiv.org)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used to generate responses on social topics due to their world knowledge and generative capabilities.

Generative AI, Bias, Political Science, Social Media

9 points by PaulHoule 122 days ago | 2 comments

J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment" (aeon.co)
At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking.

History, Political Science, Philosophy

43 points by pepys 134 days ago | 92 comments

The future of the instant runoff election reform (brookings.edu)
The poor quality of American elections has ramifications for the ability of the political system to address policy problems supported by large majorities of the population.

Election Reform, Political Science

8 points by hn_acker 149 days ago | 0 comments

The Technological Society: Jacques Ellul (archive.org)
This is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the twentieth century, and if you accept its thesis you won't be able to look at the political milieu in the same way ever again. (If you agree with it and it doesn't change the way you look at things, you haven't grasped its importance.)

Technology, Society, Books, Political Science

5 points by DyslexicAtheist 151 days ago | 1 comments

The Structure of a Worldview (allcatsarefemale.com)
All this thinking about worldviews and cultural drift has been deeply engaging. Between Robin Hanson questioning the rationality of trusting in our deepest cultural values, and reading Thomas Sowell, who very clearly articulates the anti-idealist position and bias in favor of tradition—I’ve been evaluating political and moral disagreements in a new light.

Philosophy, Culture, Political Science

87 points by jger15 174 days ago | 142 comments

Elite Overproduction (wikipedia.org)
Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that is producing too many potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.

Sociology, Political Science, History

54 points by lantry 177 days ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Contagious Beliefs–Simulating Political Alignment (nonzerosum.games)
Humans are social animals, and as such we are influenced by the beliefs of those around us. This simulation explores how beliefs can spread through a population, and how indirect relationships between beliefs can lead to unexpected correlations.

Social Sciences, Simulation, Political Science, Beliefs

17 points by NonZeroSumJames 202 days ago | 0 comments

Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999) (meforum.org)
Arabic-speaking armies have been generally ineffective in the modern era.

Military History, Middle East, Political Science

18 points by rndmize 204 days ago | 0 comments

Brain Structure Linked to Political Ideology (neurosciencenews.com)
A large study has found a small but significant link between brain structure and political ideology.

Neuroscience, Political Science, Psychology

10 points by amichail 224 days ago | 1 comments

Median Voter Theorem (wikipedia.org)
The median voter theorem in political science and social choice theory, developed by Duncan Black, states that if voters and candidates are distributed along a one-dimensional spectrum and voters have single-peaked preferences, any voting method that is compatible with majority-rule will elect the candidate preferred by the median voter.

Political Science, Voting Systems, Majority Rule

6 points by JumpCrisscross 242 days ago | 0 comments

Paradox of Tolerance (wikipedia.org)

Philosophy, Political Science, Tolerance

10 points by mooreds 246 days ago | 4 comments

Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012) (madinamerica.com)

Mental Health, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science

85 points by yamrzou 250 days ago | 38 comments

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible [video] (youtube.com)

Democracy, Political Science, Mathematics, Video

24 points by redbell 251 days ago | 12 comments

Why the China model is failing (aspistrategist.org.au)