Raquel Centeno is a Ph.D. candidate studying American politics and quantitative methods in the Political Science and International Relations department at the University of Southern California. Her research falls largely in the areas of public opinion, political psychology, and political behavior. Much of Raquel’s research is motivated by questions of how voters’ various group identities influence their perceptions of politics, and her dissertation uses the cases of Latino and White partisans to examine how racial status threat fuels partisan polarization. Raquel’s other research also examines how identity interacts with political institutions to influence voter behavior, including studies of how primary systems influence general election turnout among independents and how alternative voting methods influence voter sentiment about elections.
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