Politics, Groups and Identities

Latinx for Trump: disaggregating support among voters in 2020 This article analyzes predictors of support for Donald Trump among Latinx in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election to uncover variation within the broader category of Latinx voters. We analyze 2020 C...

📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices.

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Who protects transgender rights in congress? An analysis of gender identity inclusive policy entrepreneurship The quality and strength of a democracy can be measured by how minority rights are protected against the interests of the majority. In the US, the rights of transgender people, a numerically small,...

📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.

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Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior Variations in perceptions of and attitudes towards justice animate how different people decide to engage in politics. In the US, political attitudes typically vary across salient identity markers s...

✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Civil initiatives or hate marches? Unpacking anti-gender mobilizations and civic resistance in Türkiye Since the mid-2000s, anti-gender mobilizations have gained global visibility, presenting themselves as civic defenders of traditional family values and national sovereignty against the perceived th...

📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action.

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Representation and the legislative enterprise: an expanded view of staff representation Abundant research highlights the importance of electoral representation for women and racial minorities in democratic governments. This literature focuses primarily on individuals elected to office...

📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker.

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Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos Are Filipino Americans closer to Asian Americans or Latinos, politically? We argue that due to Spanish and American colonialism, this is an open question. We test hypotheses regarding Filipino Amer...

🔍︎Take a look at this recent article, “Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Danielle Casarez Lemi and Gabriel R. Sanchez 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education.

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Why Focusing On Culture Fuels Resistance to Racial Justice Recent research finds that how people are asked about racial inequality leads to different answers

✅What shapes Americans’ understanding of the racial consequences of policy choices? Check out this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post that introduces research in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social, on how the way people are asked about racial inequality can lead to very different answers: medium.com/3streams/why...

Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations? We test the possibility that social contact through interracial marriage impacts racial attitudes. We assume that interracial couples experience intergroup contact that is meaningfully different fr...

👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
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Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions Persistent divides among American voters regarding climate change, especially climate skepticism among conservatives, have long been explained with reference to ideology, vested interests, and tren...

❓“Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions,” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Eunbin Chung and Manjana Milkoreit. Take a look below 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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“Trump es la cabeza de todo esto”: rhetoric, racism, and the political socialization of Latinx immigrants How do immigrants learn about the political system and power hierarchies of their countries of settlement under adverse conditions? As a consequence of their migration experiences, undocumented imm...

📢 How do immigrants learn about politics under hostile conditions? Corral uses IWPS data to show how Latina/o immigrants with precarious legal status interpret racist rhetoric and discrimination as paths to political learning and group consciousness.

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Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇

Do Americans share the same political value structure? Research examines how race, ethnicity, and gender shape core political value systems

🇺🇸Do Americans share the same political value structure? Check out a blog post on @3streamsblog.bsky.social that highlights research from @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social showing how race, ethnicity, and gender shape core political values of different demographic groups.
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Understanding coverage of rights claiming in LGBTQ+ media The media play a major role in shaping individuals’ attitudes and perspectives on law and legality. This is particularly true concerning specialty media serving marginalized communities, where the ...

📢 How do LGBTQ+ media frame rights claims? Collins, Pierce, Rhodes & Rice analyze an original database of LGBTQ+ magazine coverage of court cases & legal claims (1989–2008), showing topic evolution and shifts in language and issue emphasis.

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Examining the determinants of opposition to birthright citizenship Since the end of racial prerequisite cases in 1952, anyone born on US soil has been granted birthright citizenship. But, prominent political figures have recently questioned whether children born t...

📢 Who opposes birthright citizenship in the U.S.? Lajevardi & Merolla show broad support overall, but a sizable minority—disproportionately White—favor ending it, with views tied to ideology and attitudes toward undocumented immigrants.

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How Do Different Types of Nationalism Shape Support for Family Separation? 👀Read this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social ‬ by Bracic, Israel-Trummel and Shortle: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is Political Science Mentoring Helping or Harming Historically Excluded Groups? 👀Read this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social‬ by Christina Fattore and Shauna F. Fisher: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Escaping the multicultural trap: strategic litigation and the decriminalization of same-sex relations in Mauritius Mauritius is widely praised for policies that have minimized tensions between ethno-religious groups. Other types of groups, however, are excluded from that sociopolitical ordering of society. In p...

📢 Brown examines how LGBTQI+ activists in Mauritius challenged colonial-era sodomy laws through strategic litigation, pushing for rights in a system that celebrates multiculturalism but marginalizes queerness.

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The foresight of Frontlash: how Weaver captured liberal states’ influence on the punitive transformation of the American criminal justice system In 2007, Vesla Weaver penned “Frontlash,” a comprehensive account of the punitive transformation of America’s criminal justice system. Her work has since been cited in hundreds of projects centered...

📢 Peay & Pulley apply Weaver’s "Frontlash" to show how punitive criminal justice policies spread across states post–Civil Rights. Liberal states, under electoral pressure, mirrored conservative “tough on crime” narratives.

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New label, different identity? Three experiments on the uniqueness of Latinx Groups use labels to define what communities stand for. Yet sometimes multiple labels refer to the same group (e.g., Hispanic, Latino). Do different labels generate distinct political opinions? Som...

📲 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article “New label, different identity? Three experiments on the uniqueness of Latinx,” by Bianca V. Vicuña and Efrén O. Pérez. Read it here👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does American identity still bind us together? A replication of Levendusky’s experiment (2018) Does American identity still bind us together? As scholars explore approaches to mitigate affective polarization, one promising intervention – priming a Common Ingroup Identity (CII) through nation...

📢 Jin finds that **priming a Common Ingroup Identity through national identity** no longer reduces affective polarization. Instead, negative feelings toward the nation now intensify out-party animosity in today’s hyperpolarized context.

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Perceptions of stereotypically immigrant groups as darker-skinned and politics of immigration in the United States and Britain Recent evidence indicates that anti-immigration attitudes in white-majority societies have a “racial hue” as they at least partially derive from aversion toward prevalent immigrant groups. Building...

📢Explore this recent work by Kirill Zhirkov, “Perceptions of stereotypically immigrant groups as darker-skinned and politics of immigration in the United States and Britain,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

Empowering candidacy: how authorizing the use of campaign funds for childcare increases women’s candidacy for state legislatures Women remain underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States and face numerous barriers to political participation, one of the most significant being household and caregiving resp...

📢 Hardin finds that states allowing campaign funds for childcare see more women running for state legislatures. CFCC policies help reduce barriers, improve gender norms, and strengthen the pipeline for women’s political representation.

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To become a “real” American: acculturation psychology and Republican Party identification among Asian Americans and Latinos Prior studies of Asian American and Latino party identification tend to focus on Democratic party identification. However, the absence of Democratic party identification and its contributing factor...

📢 Jeong finds that acculturation psychology helps explain party ID among Asian Americans and Latinos: those high in assimilation lean Republican, while those high in multiculturalism lean Democratic.

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Emphasizing similarities or differences: framing effects in LGBTQ movement mobilization Marginalized groups face major challenges in mobilizing the public, including how to frame their own identities. Should groups emphasize how similar they are to the dominant majority? Or can they f...

📢 Jones tests how LGBTQ groups frame identity—by emphasizing similarity or difference from the dominant majority—and finds no effect on support, perceived effectiveness, or political appeal among LGBTQ and straight cis respondents alike.

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The influence of candidate traits on vice presidential nominee preference The selection of Kamala Harris as a vice presidential running mate was historic: she was the first vice presidential nominee selected who was not White and only the third woman. But does a vice pre...

📢 Schroeder & Campos study voter preferences for VP nominees and find that while partisans care about race and gender, they do not always prefer candidates who match their own identity, suggesting more strategic or ideological motivations.

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📢 Watts-Smith et al. examine the “neighborhood gap”—the mismatch between class and neighborhood quality for middle-class Black Americans—and show how it shapes racial consciousness and linked fate.

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Gendered perceptions of leadership and children’s political ambition: evidence from Nigeria Scholarship on political representation shows persistent inequality between women and men. Recent work theorizes that children internalize norms of gendered inequality to affect their images of the...

This article builds on their recent PGI study, based on a survey of 981 children in Nigeria.

They find that 90% of children drew male political leaders—highlighting early gendered political socialization in contexts of male-dominated leadership.

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