Behavioral literature in political science and psychology suggests that factual beliefs about the world often vary across different social groups, including by partisan affiliation. This paper explores potential microfoundations for this regularity by analyzing interactions between a group leader and her “followers.” A game-theoretic framework is developed, in which a leader with private inform...

One key function of political leadership is to facilitate coordinated action by “followers.” The need to fulfill this function can affect leaders’ strategic incentives to depict the political world in one way as opposed to another when choosing political communications. This paper describes a laboratory experiment that was conducted to explore the effects of a leader’s communications on followe...

In this paper, we adopt the representation learning approach to align users across multiple social networks where the social structures of the users are exploited. In particular, we propose to learn a network embedding with the followership/followee-ship of each user explicitly modeled as input/output context vector representations so as to preserve the proximity of users with “similar” followe...