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Gwyneth McClendon @GManMac

Assoc Professor @nyuniversity | Author of Envy in Politics tinyurl.com/27ypu2nm | Pews to Politics tinyurl.com/576dfz3t | @identities_NYU

Joined May 2011
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New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨 In @apsrjournal Avi Ahuja and I share results from a field experiment with @GovernanceFor around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections: tinyurl.com/3hytpx5m @CUP_PoliSci A🧵:

The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone |...

The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules: Field Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

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Together, we show many existing ideas about the effects of PR extend to developing democracies but the mechanisms driving those effects may be about candidate-vote vs. party-voter linkages rather than changes in programmatic politics, political competition, new party entry, etc.
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Reminder to register (no fee!) for the Rebecca Morton Experiments Conference taking place next week! Join us: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S…

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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspoliticalscie… Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S… @NYUpolitics @nyuniversity
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JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspoliticalscie… Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S… @NYUpolitics @nyuniversity
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Gwyneth McClendon@GManMac
29 Dec 2025
Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others
British Jnl Poli Sci@BJPolS
29 Dec 2025
NEW - Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - cup.org/4pYDasw - @GManMac, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

ALT BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

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Gwyneth McClendon@GManMac
30 Dec 2025
In designing and interpreting these studies we learned much from and are indebted to the work of @JohnHolbein1 Sunshine Hillygus, Jessica Gottlieb, Steven Finkel @AmyEricaSmith, @j_wolak_ Jessica Preece, Claire Willeck @TMendelberg, @cdsamii @EricMvukiyehe and many others
Gwyneth McClendon@GManMac
29 Dec 2025
Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others
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Coauthors @ElizabethSperb, O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) and I have published 3 papers about youth civic ed and political participation, based on a WhatsApp experiment and a prior in-person pilot conducted in collaboration w/ @caritaszambia @CCMG_Zambia @poverty_action and others
British Jnl Poli Sci@BJPolS
29 Dec 2025
NEW - Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - cup.org/4pYDasw - @GManMac, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

ALT BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

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Young women exhibited lower levels of political participation, confidence about politics, and interest in politics at baseline. Providing them with both information and a boosted sense of efficacy increased their political interest and their political participation.
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The @BJPolS article with @ElizabethSperb and O’Brien Kaaba is open-access
British Jnl Poli Sci@BJPolS
29 Dec 2025
NEW - Reducing Gender Gaps in Political Participation with Efficacy Promotion: Evidence from a Civic Education Experiment in Zambia - cup.org/4pYDasw - @GManMac, Elizabeth Sperb & O’Brien Kaaba (@UnzaOfficial) #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.

ALT BJPolS abstract discussing women's participation in politics, civic education, and gender gaps in political efficacy and interest.
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