I was interviewed for the news at TV2 Østjylland. It was aired August 29: Nyheder | TV2 Østjylland (tv2ostjylland.dk). The story is about a boy with muscle atrophy who wanted to change school, and the municipality did not want to pay for his transport to this school. A local wealthy…
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New blog post at United States Politics and Policy at LSE
We have a new blog post at LSE’s United States Politics and Policy: Political candidates’ gender and race are important to voters, but only if they represent the party they prefer | USAPP (lse.ac.uk) It is about our article published in British Journal of Political Science: Lexicographic Preferences in Candidate…
Lexicographic Preferences in Candidate Choice
New article about choosing political candidates with Simon Calmar Andersen in British Journal of Political Science How do we choose between alternatives? In our new article, we introduce lexicographic preferences as a possible way to understand citizens’ choices of political candidates. We show that the mixed evidence on the influence…
New debate post in Altinget on citizen expectations (in Danish)
A new debate post by me on citizen expectations was just published in Altinget: Vive: Borgernes stigende forventninger til velfærden har konsekvenser – om de kan påvirkes er mindre entydigt – Altinget: Kommunal. The piece is behind paywall (and in Danish). My points about citizen expactations are that it seems…
New Article on Choice of Daycare Institution (in Danish)
Parents’ choice of daycare institution is a big thing for parents in Denmark. Here, parents can wish which institution they would like their child to attend, and the municipality and/or the leader of the institution will decide if they will get a spot at the desired institution. Often they put…
The Consistency of Question-order Bias
The Belgian project. As a cycling fan, it was a great experience to work with some Belgians on some very Belgian data. In six large-scale COVID-19 surveys among the Belgian population, we test the classic question-order bias hypothesis: do prior questions affect the answers to later questions in surveys? It…
Choir of Believers?
Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, and I finally had our paper ‘Choir of Believers? Experimental and Longitudinal Evidence on Response Bias and Public Service Motivation’ published. It’s been a long journey with COVID-19, lockdowns, a mountainbike accident, and much more! However, we are very happy with the result. We…