Allison Archer

The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee.

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I'm chairing the Public Opinion division this year -- please consider submitting your proposals to PO!

Have you submitted your #APSA2026 Annual Meeting proposals? Join us for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, September 3–6, exploring the conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Deadline: 1/14 Submit your proposals now: buff.ly/PYyBksl

Check out our new article looking at who wanted to quit Twitter and who decided to wait and see after ownership of the platform changed hands.

Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets.

In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.

Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.

What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?

My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
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🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Comparative Politics - Houston, Texas, United States Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant, Associate, ...

@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...

@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Professor - Aspire Institute for Global Engagement Endowed Professor - Houston, Texas, United States Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for tenured Professor for the...

We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.

L.A. Times Owner Says He Will Take Newspaper Public in Next Year

The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

What Is News? As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Pew Research Center.

Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...

Thanks so much!

Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA

Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!

Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies

Screenshot for the title page of an article entited "Nevertheless, Role Models Persisted: Girls Exposed to Women Politicians More Likely to Vote as Adults," by Christina Wolbrecht and David E. Campbell, published in the journal Political Behavior.

Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:

Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.

We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.

doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites

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Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models.

Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings And what it means for American Democracy

Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs.

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...

Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.

More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages.

@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...

When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments.

Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social

Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵

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I teach NYT v. Sullivan in my intro class because it's important for them to know this ruling is what gives them the right to broadly criticize public officials without worrying about being harassed via lawsuit by the rich and powerful. It would be devastating to free speech to overturn Sullivan.