Aaron Martin

Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy

Peter John, Aaron Martin, Gosia Mikolajczak

Journal article  |  2022  |  REGULATION & GOVERNANCE

An extensive debate has emerged in recent years about the relative merits of behavioral policy instruments (nudges) aimed at chang..

Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the "Sports Rorts" Affair

Andrea Carson, Andrew Gibbons, Aaron Martin, Justin B Phillips

Journal article  |  2022  |  DIGITAL JOURNALISM

Given the centrality of news media to democracy, it is concerning that public trust in media has declined in many countries. A pot..

Political stability, trust and support for public policies: a survey experiment examining source effects for COVID-19 interventions in Australia and Hong Kong

A Martin, G Mikołajczak, E Baekkeskov, K Hartley

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Journal of Public Opinion Research

What is the relationship between political stability, trust, and source effects on support for public policies? In this article, w..

Does process matter? Experimental evidence on the effect of procedural fairness on citizens' evaluations of policy outcomes

Aaron Martin, Gosia Mikolajczak, Raymond Orr

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW

One of the key factors distinguishing democracies from non-democracies is the process by which political decisions are made. Centr..

Do Voters Judge the Performance of Female and Male Politicians Differently? Experimental Evidence from the United States and Australia

Roosmarijn A de Geus, John R McAndrews, Peter John Loewen, Aaron Martin

Journal article  |  2020  |  POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY

Do gender stereotypes about agency affect how voters judge the governing performance of political executives? We explore this ques..

Negative campaigning, issue salience and vote choice: assessing the effects of the Australian Labor party's 2016 "Mediscare" campaign

Andrea Carson, Aaron J Martin, Shaun Ratcliff

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties

This study contributes to the scholarship on negative campaigning, revealing the important dynamics of party and media messaging a..

Political probity increases trust in government: Evidence from randomized survey experiments

A Martin, R Orr, K Peyton, N Faulkner

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

Low levels of trust in government have potentially wide-ranging implications for governing stability, popular legitimacy, and poli..

Did the minority Gillard government keep its promises? A study of promissory representation in Australia

Andrea Carson, Andrew Gibbons, Aaron Martin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Political Science

When the Gillard government formed a minority government in 2010 many commentators argued that the government would be unable to f..

Enlisting the support of trusted sources to tackle policy problems: The case of antimicrobial resistance

Aaron Martin, Timothy B Gravelle, Erik Baekkeskov, Jenny Lewis, Yoshi Kashima

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

Antimicrobial resistance represents one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. Governments around the world have—and..

The Australian Policy Agendas Project

Keith Dowding, Aaron Martin, Rhonda Evans

Book Chapter  |  2019

Keith Dowding and Aaron Martin launched the Australian Policy Agendas Project (APAP) in 2012 under an Australian Research Council ..