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COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

July 19, 2022 Comments Off

COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes By Nathan Kar Ming Chan, University of California, Irvine, Jae Yeon Kim, University of California, Berkley, and Vivien Leung, Bucknell University Extending theories […]

Theme Panel: Educating Young Citizens for Engaged Citizenship

July 11, 2022 Comments Off

Educating Young Citizens for Engaged Citizenship Co-sponsored by Division 58: Civic Engagement Created Panel Participants: (Chair) Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College; (Discussant) J. Cherie Strachan, Virginia Commonwealth University Session Description: This panel examines the ways that […]

A Collection of Articles from Cambridge on Abortion Politics

July 7, 2022 Comments Off

In the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled long-term precedents securing the right to choose abortion Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, […]

The Partisans and the Persuadables: Public Views of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Protests

May 2, 2022 Comments Off

The Partisans and the Persuadables: Public Views of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Protests By Kevin Drakulich and Megan Denver, Northeastern University In the spring and summer of 2020, a remarkable number of Americans […]

Why Do Clientelist Brokers Go Rogue? Parties, Politicians, and Intermediaries in Mexico

April 22, 2022 Comments Off

Why Do Clientelist Brokers Go Rogue? Parties, Politicians, and Intermediaries in Mexico By Joy Langston, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Political scientists working on […]

Other People’s Terrorism: Ideology and the Perceived Legitimacy of Political Violence

April 21, 2022 Comments Off

Other People’s Terrorism: Ideology and the Perceived Legitimacy of Political Violence By Julie M. Norman, University College London When do Americans view political violence as legitimate? In this article, I use experimental methods to examine […]

Representation and Aggression in Digital Racial Conflict: Analyzing Public Comments during Live-Streamed News of Racial Justice Protests

April 18, 2022 Comments Off

Representation and Aggression in Digital Racial Conflict: Analyzing Public Comments during Live-Streamed News of Racial Justice Protests By Nathan P. Kalmoe, P. Brooks Fuller, Martina Santia and Paromita Saha, Louisiana State University How do local citizens […]

Reforming to Avoid Reform: Strategic Policy Substitution and the Reform Gap in Policing

April 15, 2022 Comments Off

Reforming to Avoid Reform: Strategic Policy Substitution and the Reform Gap in Policing By Yanilda María González, Harvard University Institutional reforms often diverge from substantive problems and societal demands that originally prompted reform, raising questions […]

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