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Beyond Racial Linked Fate: Inter-Minority Political Solidarity and Political Participation

This study examines the various patterns of political participation among Latinos, Blacks and Asians Americans. To assess these patterns of political participation among these three groups, I employ ... Political Participation 0 Yoshira D. Macías Mejía 0 0 Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI , USA 1 Yoshira D. Macías Mejía This study examines the various

Correction to: Beyond Racial Linked Fate: Inter-Minority Political Solidarity and Political Participation

Research Institute, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI , USA The author would like to correct following sentence from the section Inter minority Political Group Solidarity Framework and Discussion

Birds of a Feather Get Angrier Together: Social Media News Use and Social Media Political Homophily as Antecedents of Political Anger

A significant body of literature within political communication revolves around the constructive political virtues and blighting social and democratic consequences of political anger. For the most

Support for Gun Reform in the United States: The Interactive Relationship Between Partisanship and Trust in the Federal Government

government and political ideology (Ryan et al. in Polit Behav 44(2):725–748, 10.1007/s11109-020-09633-2, 2022), no study explores whether the impact of trust in government on support for gun reform is, in fact ... , Contemporary History and Political Science , University of Turku , Turku , Finland 1 John Morton Center for North American Studies, University of Turku , Turku , Finland Studies find that trust in the

Political Trust and American Public Support for Free Trade

attitudes toward government may matter. Here, I address this oversight by examining the relationship between political trust and trade support. I do this with cross-sectional and panel data from the American ... Surveys (NAES), and a survey experiment fielded through Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Overall, I find that there is a positive and substantively significant relationship between political trust and mass

Differentiation in Protest Politics: Participation by Political Insiders and Outsiders

The political participation literature has documented a long-term trend of the normalization of noninstitutional participation that is often equated with the conventionalization of engagement in ... by emphasizing differentiation and distinguishing participation according to the issue of engagement. It introduces a conceptual distinction between political insiders and outsiders, defined based on

The Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Political Interest Representation

-wide agenda shock, we employ a difference-in-differences design to estimate its causal effects on inequalities in political access, and social media prominence among business interests and NGOs. Our ... , Norway 1 Department of Political Science and the Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen , Ø ster Farimagsgade 5, 1153 Copenhagen K , Denmark 2 Department of Political Economy

Looks Like a Leader: Measuring Evolution in Gendered Politician Stereotypes

Previous research showed that the stereotype of women politicians is incongruent with the general politician stereotype, which can be disadvantageous for women seeking political office. Based on the ... Amsterdam , Postbus 15578, 1001, NB, Amsterdam , The Netherlands 1 School of Public Service, Boise State University , 1910 University Drive-MS 1900, Boise, ID 83725 , USA 2 Department of Political Science and

Anchoring Political Preferences: The Psychological Foundations of Status Quo Bias and the Boundaries of Elite Manipulation

Professor of Political Science, Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po , 1, Place Saint Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris , France 1 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science ... Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 2014. We thank Martin Johnson, Chad Murphy, and Rasmus Tue Pedersen for helpful comments and suggestions. Public opinion; Policy attitudes

Risk Preferences in the Delegation Process

Political decisions usually involve risks regarding potential outcomes. In an ideal representative system, voters should therefore evaluate politicians not only according to the policies they support ... , Austria 1 Institute for Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Oldenburg , Germany 2 University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria 3 LINK , Zürich , Switzerland Political decisions usually

Something to Run for: Stated Motives as Indicators of Candidate Emergence

Patterns in candidate emergence affect who voters can choose from, and thus the quality of representative democracy. Despite extensive work considering factors that contribute to political ambition ... , Ann Arbor , United States 1 Network Science Institute, Northeastern University , Boston , United States 2 Department of Political Science, California State University , San Bernardino , United States 3

Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society

We study the causal relationship between social and political trust in a low trust society, a setting where this topic has received very little attention. We focus on contemporary Chile, a relatively ... 2019. Based on statistical models with varying specifications and assumptions, we find support for the institutionalist view that claims that political trust exercises a positive influence over social

The Role of Political Ideology and Open-Minded Thinking Style in the (in)Accuracy of Factual Beliefs

The paper investigates the role of political ideology and an open-minded thinking style (i.e., the tendency to reason based on rules of inference rather than intuitive heuristics) with respect to the

Bridging the Gaps Between Us: Explaining When and Why People of Color Express Shared Political Views

People of color (PoC) will soon become a demographic majority in the U.S., but this overlooks major differences in how various PoC are treated by American society and the political priorities they

Increasing Youth Political Engagement with Efficacy Not Obligation: Evidence from a Workshop-Based Experiment in Zambia

In many places around the world, young voters participate in politics at low rates. What factors might increase youth political participation? We investigate one possibility: exposure to a religious ... possibility of change through faithful action. We argue that this message, which is common in religious groups that attract large numbers of youth around the world, addresses several barriers to political

Learning from Polls During Electoral Campaigns

Voters’ beliefs about the strength of political parties are a central part of many foundational political science theories. In this article, we present a dynamic Bayesian learning model that allows ... necessarily by discrediting a poll's precision. The findings inform our understanding of the consequences of learning from polls during political campaigns and motivational learning in general. We thank Rob

The Relevance of Religion for Political Office: Voter Bias Toward Candidates from Different Religious Backgrounds

negatively on a wide range of dimensions considered desirable for political office, and that this bias should be more pronounced among the highly religious. We show support for these arguments using a survey ... candidates were perceived more negatively on a large set of traits considered desirable for political office compared to candidates from religious in-groups, and Mormon candidates fall somewhere in between

Exposure to Extremely Partisan News from the Other Political Side Shows Scarce Boomerang Effects

A narrow information diet may be partly to blame for the growing political divides in the United States, suggesting exposure to dissimilar views as a remedy. These efforts, however, could be ... longitudinal experimental design combining participants' survey self-reports and their behavioral browsing data, in which one should observe boomerang effects. We incentivized liberals to read political articles

Social Trust in Polarized Times: How Perceptions of Political Polarization Affect Americans’ Trust in Each Other

effects, especially those unrelated to political variables. This study examines the consequences of perceived polarization for levels of social trust in the United States. Trust in fellow citizens is the ... Political Science, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA 1 Consortium On Electoral Democracy, Ryerson University , Toronto , Canada Most Americans think that the country is politically divided

Strategic Alignment in Times of Crisis: Voting at the Dawn of a Global Pandemic

initial local outbreaks favored the political party governing at the state level and hurt the far right. These findings are most likely driven by a ‘strategic alignment’ mechanism, whereby voters choose the ... , Chemnitz University of Technology , Chemnitz , Germany 1 Department of Political Science, University of Hamburg , Hamburg , Germany Natural disasters are likely to increase in the near future. How does the