Does Policy Matter?

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With her short campaign, Kamala Harris didn't have much time to develop and communicate policy positions to voters. Will this matter? Using new survey data, we find Harris is performing better than Hillary Clinton on policy, but worse than Joe Biden.

NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics works to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.

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Strengthening Democracy

Policymakers across the world are reshaping the laws and regulations governing online spaces. But without access to high-quality empirical evidence, legislators risk operating in the dark. That's where we come in.

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A Commitment to Open Science

As part of our project to construct comprehensive data sets and to empirically test hypotheses related to social media and politics, we have developed a suite of open-source tools and modeling processes.

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