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Politics, Groups and Identities
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Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 22h
📢 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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“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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 4d
Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇
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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · 5d
Does Contact with Women of Color Change Perceptions of Discrimination? 📖 Take a look at this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social‬ by Jasmine Jordan, Nazita Lajevardi and John Waller: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · 7d
🇺🇸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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Do Americans share the same political value structure?
Research examines how race, ethnicity, and gender shape core political value systems
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 9d
📢 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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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 ...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · 16d
📢 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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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...
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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · 19d
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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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · Aug 1
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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dr. jordie davies @jordiedavies.bsky.social · Aug 14
Re-upping this! Send me your papers! @wpsa.bsky.social @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social
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dr. jordie davies @jordiedavies.bsky.social · Aug 4
Hi friends! I am collecting submissions for the Best Women in Politics Paper Award for WPSA! Send your nominations to ejdavies [at] uci [dot] edu. Self nominations are welcome!
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Aug 21
📢 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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jul 31
📢 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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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...
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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · Jul 31
📲 @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....
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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jul 25
📢 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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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...
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Political Science Research @poscresearch.bsky.social · Jul 24
📢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
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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jul 18
📢 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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jul 8
📢 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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jul 3
📢 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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 27
📢 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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 20
📢 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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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 13
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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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...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 13
Why don’t children imagine women as political leaders? In a new piece for The Conversation, Okedele, Kang, & Greenlee explore how gendered norms shape Nigerian children’s perceptions of political leadership.

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Nigerian children don’t imagine women as political leaders: what shapes their view
Children absorb the power dynamics and gender roles they observe and this shapes their understanding of who a political leader should be.
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 12
📢 How should we measure Black political socialization? Strawbridge uses four decades of survey data to show that common items reflect a shared underlying concept—and proposes a multidimensional measure aligned with its original definition.

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Let’s spin the block: reviving and advancing research on Black political socialization
Black political socialization is a foundational yet simultaneously underdeveloped concept in Black political behavior research. A fundamental limitation of this literature is inconsistent measureme...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 12
📢 Chan & Landgrave find that many Americans hold an immigrant identity—distinct from race or origin—and that its strength varies by race and generation.

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A nation of immigrants? The case for a politically influential and intersectional immigrant identity in the United States
Do Americans identify as immigrants and, if so, what are the political implications? We argue that many Americans hold an immigrant identity, and that the strength of immigrant identity varies by r...
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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 12
📢 Bryan et al. study immigrant survivors of violence and find that experiences with police vary by immigration status, English proficiency, and gender—shaping how survivors engage with institutions and view government trustworthiness.

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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 12
📢 Macdonald finds that while Americans view “legal” immigrants more favorably, attitudes toward “illegal” immigrants more strongly shape immigration policy preferences and candidate evaluations—driven by media’s focus on illegality.

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Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social · Jun 12
Immigration shapes not only policy but also public perception, institutional engagement, and lived experience. This thread shares three recent studies that examine public attitudes, immigrant-police interactions, and immigrant identity. 👇🧵
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