Semra Sevi
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto www.semrasevi.com
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Yamil Ricardo Velez
27 days ago
This paper was a blast to work on. The challenge: present party positions across many issues, in real time, using language voters actually use. 🧵 on why we went with a more involved retrieval-based approach and where I think these tools are headed.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
22 days ago
An AI Voter bot improves knowledge about politics But, the AI bot has weak effects on downstream outcomes like vote preferences and party evaluations among respondents whose primary issue position aligns closely with one of the parties. Partisan action is hard to change.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨Excited to share our new paper published in PNAS (joint with
@yamilrvelez.bsky.social
and Don Green)! AI can enhance political knowledge and provide balanced information about politics with proper guardrails and vetted sources (e.g., party platforms).
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
about 1 month ago
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Quite a 24 hours in Canadian Politics, two Conservatives out (one to the Liberals, one gone altogether), a new Budget on the table, and my debut on Power & Politics! Nothing beats watching your research come to life. Full interview here:
gem.cbc.ca/power-politics
#cdnpoli
2 months ago
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Our study of every election since 1867 shows party switchers in Canada once thrived, but now they face steep losses. Here is a summary of our results:
policyoptions.irpp.org/2018/09/rese...
#cdnpoli
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Tommaso Pavone
3 months ago
@utoronto.ca
, do better! The Uni is excluding recent hires from cost-of-living adjustments that an arbitrator decided ALL faculty/librarians deserve. This harms junior colleagues struggling w/ inflation: we’ve organized a petition demanding
@utoronto.ca
change course. Spread the word!
www.utfa.org
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University of Toronto Faculty Association
The University of Toronto Faculty Association exists to protect and advance the well being of the faculty, librarians and research associates of the University of Toronto, the University of St. Michae...
https://www.utfa.org/
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Inessa De Angelis
4 months ago
Which Canadian MPs are on Bluesky and what do they post? My new paper w/
@rohanalexander.bsky.social
in
@cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
unpacks these questions, finding MPs use it like Twitter to discuss policy, the Ottawa bubble & constituency Read more:
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
#polsky
#commsky
#cdnpoli
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🚨NEW STUDY: Do Americans support a woman president? Our list experiment during the 2024 election, when
@kamalaharris.com
was on the ballot, reveals hidden bias, and it's more widespread than you'd expect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Do Voters Support a Female President? Evidence from a List Experiment - Semra Sevi, Can Mekik, 2025
Public opinion polls indicate that a significant portion of the American public would be willing to vote for a qualified female presidential candidate. However,...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X251369844
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Political Science Research and Methods
6 months ago
🪃Do legislators trade proposals? ➡️Leveraging a lottery in the Canadian Parliament,
@semrasevi.bsky.social
& D.P. Green find little evidence MPs second motions to gain favor. Support seems driven by shared interests, not quid pro quo
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨NEW PAPER: Do legislators trade favours? My latest with Donald Green uses a natural lottery in the Canadian Parliament to test whether MPs return favours when others support their proposals. Our findings may surprise you.👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
6 months ago
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🚨NEW PAPER: Do incumbents really have an edge in elections? Research says yes. But what happens when party labels are added to the ballot? A natural experiment from Canadian elections tells an interesting story👇🧵
7 months ago
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University of Toronto
8 months ago
From classroom to control room:
#UofT
students join Global News on election night 🗳️
uoft.me/bzJ
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U of T Faculty of Arts & Science
8 months ago
#UofTArtSci
students joined
@globalnews.ca
on election night, working behind the scenes in the newsroom to help call live results — an unforgettable hands-on experience. Read more:
bit.ly/3YpJPQL
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U of T Faculty of Arts & Science
8 months ago
Just days after Canadians elected Liberal leader Mark Carney as Prime Minister, the mix of victories, upsets and expected outcomes reflects deeper trends that
#UofTArtSci
elections expert Semra Sevi has spent years analyzing. Read more:
bit.ly/4lVQ7ld
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Can AI reduce prejudice? 🇺🇸 In our new preprint, GPT-4o moved the needle on trans rights in a national U.S. study using morally tailored messages. The shift was real and short-lived. For more, read 👇 Comments and feedback are welcome.
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9 months ago
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John Holbein
9 months ago
Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner. Can AI help reduce prejudice? My new working paper w
@semrasevi.bsky.social
,
@mbosley.bsky.social
& Crabtree examines this question!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Inessa De Angelis
9 months ago
Why aren't we talking about harassment in
#elxn45
? In my new op-ed, I reflect on the harassment women continue to face in
#cdnpoli
, and the threat it poses to democracy:
theconversation.com/growing-thre...
@theconversationca.bsky.social
#gendersky
#polisky
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Growing threats faced by women candidates undermine our democracy
This scholar has found that 86 per cent of replies to tweets sent to women MPs contained some form of harassment. This is a clear threat to women’s participation in politics.
https://theconversation.com/growing-threats-faced-by-women-candidates-undermine-our-democracy-254371
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🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 with Charles Crabtree & André Blais "Do Voters Punish Women Politicians More?"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
over 1 year ago
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🚨Are feminine traits a liability in elections? My latest with André Blais at Acta Politica is now online!
over 1 year ago
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Ever wonder whether snap elections backfire? In my latest with Marco M. Aviña &
@rdassonneville.bsky.social
we study this question in the Canadian context. Now out at the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
about 2 years ago
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Really excited to share my latest with André Blais now out at Electoral Studies on "Are women election averse?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@uoft.bsky.social
about 2 years ago
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
about 2 years ago
New paper now conditionally accepted at
@thejop.bsky.social
With
@elizabethsim0n.bsky.social
- one of the best (& nicest) people in polisky - we ran a meta analysis looking at effects of educational group-based biases in candidate choice experiments. 👉https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hrufe
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Alex Coppock
about 2 years ago
Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments. I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time!
tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
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