David Broockman

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In 2015, while still a graduate student, Broockman along with Joshua Kalla and Peter Aronow, "expos[ed] one of the biggest scientific frauds in recent memory." [4] They showed that a prominent study entitled "When Contact Changes Minds: An Experiment on Transmission of Support for Gay Equality” published in Science Magazine was fraudulent. [6] [9] The scientific paper was retracted [16] after the senior author, Donald Green, requested that it be so. [5] For exposing the fraud, Broockman and Kalla won the 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Transparency in the Social Sciences. [17]

The fraudulent paper purported to show that a single canvassing conversation can increase support for same-sex marriage in a durable way. The finding of fraud raised many doubts about the role of canvassing in political persuasion. [6] Although the scientific article was found to be fraudulent, Broockman and Kalla conjectured that the underlying claim that high-quality door-to-door canvassing conversations could decrease prejudice might be true. [7] In a subsequent article published in Science Magazine, Broockman and Kalla demonstrated that door-to-door canvassing successfully reduces transgender prejudice, with the effects persisting months later in follow-up surveys. [7] [8] [18]

Other research

Broockman and Kalla have also published on the minimal effects of most persuasive interventions. [19]

Broockman's other research has also received significant public attention. For example, in a 2013 study, Broockman argues that legislators consistently believe their constituents are more conservative than they actually are. Some conjectured that this study explained why it is so challenging to pass liberal laws. [20]

Broockman has also critiqued prevailing understandings of political polarization. In a 2015 study, he argued that many voters do not have moderate views, and are happy to see polarized politicians representing them. [21] He has also argued that affective polarization does not meaningfully undermine political accountability. [22]

In a 2017 article with Neil Malhotra, he argues that there is significant heterogeneity in the preferences of wealthy individuals. The article shows that technology entrepreneurs support liberal redistributive, social, and globalist policies but conservative regulatory policies which is a combination of preferences that is rare among wealthy political donors more generally. [23]

Articles

Awards

Broockman has won numerous scholarly awards. In 2014, he won the Lawrence Longely award for the best paper published on representation and electoral systems. [27] In 2015, he shared the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Transparency in the Social Sciences. [17] In 2017, he shared the Cialdini prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. [28] In 2019, he shared the Joseph L. Bernd award for the best article published in the Journal of Politics. [29] In 2020, he won the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section. [30] In 2024, he was selected to the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program. [31]

Selected publications

  • Broockman, David; Kalla, Joshua; Aronow, Peter. "Irregularities in LaCour (2014)". doi:10.31222/osf.io/qy2se. S2CID   242937616.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Broockman, David; Kalla, Joshua (2016). "Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing". Science. 352 (6282): 220–224. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..220B. doi: 10.1126/science.aad9713 . PMID   27124458. S2CID   206645910.
  • Broockman, David; Skovron, Christopher (2018). "Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion among Political Elites". American Political Science Review. 112 (3): 542–563. doi:10.1017/S0003055418000011. S2CID   148883885.
  • Broockman, David; Ferenstein, Greg; Malhorta, Neil (2017). "Wealthy Elites' Policy Preferences and Economic Inequality: The Case of Technology Entrepreneurs". doi:10.2139/SSRN.3028373.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Kalla, Joshua; Broockman, Kalla (2018). "The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments". American Political Science Review. 112: 148–166. doi:10.1017/S0003055417000363. S2CID   149306936.

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References

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  3. ↑ Edsall, Thomas (2021-09-29). "How Much Does How Much We Hate Each Other Matter?". New York Times. Retrieved 2023-09-16.
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  6. 1 2 3 Carey, Benedict; Belluck, Pam (26 May 2015). "Doubts About Study of Gay Canvassers Rattle the Field". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (7 April 2016). "How Do You Change Voters' Minds? Have a Conversation". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  8. 1 2 "How Do You Change Voters' Minds? Have a Conversation". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  9. 1 2 "The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Grad Student Uncovered a Huge Fraud". slate.com. June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
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  11. ↑ Knight, Heather (2021-11-06). "S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston invited YIMBYs to look at his housing record. They panned it". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
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  17. 1 2 "Leamer-Rosenthal Prize". bitss.org. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  18. ↑ Broockman, David; Kalla, Joshua (2016). "Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing". Science. 352 (6282). sciencemag.org: 220–224. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..220B. doi: 10.1126/science.aad9713 . PMID   27124458. S2CID   206645910.
  19. ↑ Kalla, Joshua L.; Broockman, David E. (February 2018). "The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments". American Political Science Review. 112 (1): 148–166. doi:10.1017/S0003055417000363. S2CID   149306936.
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  22. ↑ Broockman, David; Kalla, Joshua; Westwood, Sean (2020-12-22). "Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not". doi:10.31219/osf.io/9btsq. S2CID   241065420.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. ↑ Manjoo, Farhad (6 September 2017). "Silicon Valley's Politics: Liberal, With One Big Exception". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  24. ↑ Fruchtman, David Broockman and Robert (2022-04-07). "A wall of skyscrapers along Ocean Beach? It could happen if S.F. doesn't stop bungling its planning process". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  25. ↑ Kalla, David Broockman and Joshua (2020-02-25). "Bernie Sanders looks electable in surveys — but it could be a mirage". Vox. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  26. ↑ "Analysis | Persuading voters is hard. That doesn't mean campaigns should give up". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  27. ↑ "110th Annual APSA Meeting" (PDF).
  28. ↑ "Cialdini Prize - SPSP". www.spsp.org.
  29. ↑ "Joseph L Bernd JOP Best Paper Award – Southern Political Science Association". spsa.net.
  30. ↑ "Awards – Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior, Section 32".
  31. ↑ "Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program". Political Science News. May 16, 2024. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
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David Broockman
Nationality American
Academic background
Alma mater Yale University (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D)
Doctoral advisor Eric Schickler, Jasjeet S. Sekhon [1]