Associate Professor at Kellogg, Northwestern University
Apr 25 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science!
We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science.
Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas
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Science has long been regarded as essential to policymaking. Its role has become especially vital, as many pressing societal challenges today--from climate change to technological advancement--are intimately linked with the latest scientific progress. 2/
Findings may be relevant to a range of scholars, CSS, diffusion, #ScienceOfScience thread [1/n]
Diffusion processes impact broad aspects of human society. our knowledge is mainly limited to spreading in non-substitutive systems. Yet, many ideas, products and behaviors spread by substitution-to adopt a new one, agents often need to give up an existing one 2/