Jaroslaw Kantorowicz

TL;DR: In a large international collaboration, this paper investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020).

TL;DR: The analysis of the decision-making in the Polish Constitutional Tribunal seems to support the existence of some party alignment, either because judges' preferences coincide with the interests of a specific party or because the judges are incentivized to show their loyalty to a party.

TL;DR: This paper applied machine learning on the multinational data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social and Moral Psychology of COVID-19 (N = 51,404) to test the predictive efficacy of constructs from social, moral, cognitive, and personality psychology, as well as socio-demographic factors, in the attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic.

TL;DR: The authors compared the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments to conduct their own fiscal policy; 2) the degree to which subnational governments are held responsible for fiscal policy outcomes; 3) the extent to which local governments can shape fiscal policy of the federal level; 4) the strength of intergovernmental budget rules; and 5) the stability of fiscal policy arrangements.

TL;DR: This article found that the more people think government is able to prevent terrorist attacks and feel that authorities are doing enough, the more they, in turn, feel that their government shares their values, and the less fearful they are of future terrorist attacks.