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
📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.
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Who protects transgender rights in congress? An analysis of gender identity inclusive policy entrepreneurship
The quality and strength of a democracy can be measured by how minority rights are protected against the interests of the majority. In the US, the rights of transgender people, a numerically small,...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion.
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✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior
Variations in perceptions of and attitudes towards justice animate how different people decide to engage in politics. In the US, political attitudes typically vary across salient identity markers s...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action.
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Civil initiatives or hate marches? Unpacking anti-gender mobilizations and civic resistance in Türkiye
Since the mid-2000s, anti-gender mobilizations have gained global visibility, presenting themselves as civic defenders of traditional family values and national sovereignty against the perceived th...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action.
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📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker.
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Representation and the legislative enterprise: an expanded view of staff representation
Abundant research highlights the importance of electoral representation for women and racial minorities in democratic governments. This literature focuses primarily on individuals elected to office...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker.
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🔍︎Take a look at this recent article, “Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Danielle Casarez Lemi and Gabriel R. Sanchez 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky
Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos
Are Filipino Americans closer to Asian Americans or Latinos, politically? We argue that due to Spanish and American colonialism, this is an open question. We test hypotheses regarding Filipino Amer...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔍︎Take a look at this recent article, “Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Danielle Casarez Lemi and Gabriel R. Sanchez 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky
📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education.
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From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory
Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education.
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✅What shapes Americans’ understanding of the racial consequences of policy choices? Check out this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post that introduces research in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social, on how the way people are asked about racial inequality can lead to very different answers: medium.com/3streams/why...
Why Focusing On Culture Fuels Resistance to Racial Justice
Recent research finds that how people are asked about racial inequality leads to different answers
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October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
✅What shapes Americans’ understanding of the racial consequences of policy choices? Check out this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post that introduces research in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social, on how the way people are asked about racial inequality can lead to very different answers: medium.com/3streams/why...
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👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?
We test the possibility that social contact through interracial marriage impacts racial attitudes. We assume that interracial couples experience intergroup contact that is meaningfully different fr...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
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🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
From strategy to sentiment: examining the role of partisan news in fostering white racial consciousness and shaping attitudes toward critical race theory
Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104
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❓“Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions,” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Eunbin Chung and Manjana Milkoreit. Take a look below 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions
Persistent divides among American voters regarding climate change, especially climate skepticism among conservatives, have long been explained with reference to ideology, vested interests, and tren...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
❓“Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions,” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Eunbin Chung and Manjana Milkoreit. Take a look below 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
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📢 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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October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
📢 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.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇
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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October 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇
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🇺🇸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.
medium.com/3streams/do-... #polisky
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Do Americans share the same political value structure?
Research examines how race, ethnicity, and gender shape core political value systems
medium.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🇺🇸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.
medium.com/3streams/do-... #polisky
medium.com/3streams/do-... #polisky
📢 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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September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 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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📢 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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September 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📢 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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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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September 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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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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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August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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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Re-upping this! Send me your papers! @wpsa.bsky.social @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social
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!
August 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Re-upping this! Send me your papers! @wpsa.bsky.social @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social
📢 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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August 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
📢 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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📢 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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July 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📢 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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📲 @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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July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📲 @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....
📢 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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July 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📢 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.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢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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July 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📢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
📢 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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July 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
📢 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.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 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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July 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
📢 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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