Allison Archer
@allisonarcher.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics.
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Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets.
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets.
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative.
Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
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What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism.
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections?
My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social!
1/7
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🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
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@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Comparative Politics - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant, Associate, ...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply.
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@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
Professor - Aspire Institute for Global Engagement Endowed Professor - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for tenured Professor for the...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.
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The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
L.A. Times Owner Says He Will Take Newspaper Public in Next Year
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July 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
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Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
What Is News?
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Pew Research Center.
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May 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
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Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA
May 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA
Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!
**NEW ISSUE**
Volume 58 Number 2 is now officially published!
Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....
Volume 58 Number 2 is now officially published!
Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....
May 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!
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Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
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Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
April 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social:
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s.
We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake.
doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
March 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
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New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models.
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models.
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
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Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs.
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The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
And what it means for American Democracy
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March 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
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More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages.
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages.
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
@npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
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When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments.
Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments.
Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵
bit.ly/StratAm
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I teach NYT v. Sullivan in my intro class because it's important for them to know this ruling is what gives them the right to broadly criticize public officials without worrying about being harassed via lawsuit by the rich and powerful. It would be devastating to free speech to overturn Sullivan.
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I teach NYT v. Sullivan in my intro class because it's important for them to know this ruling is what gives them the right to broadly criticize public officials without worrying about being harassed via lawsuit by the rich and powerful. It would be devastating to free speech to overturn Sullivan.