Taylor Trummel
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Taylor Trummel
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PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara. Immigration policy, attitudes, identity, experiments. Formerly: UCSD, SDSU tntrummel.com
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November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🎯 Overall, two key contributions are:

1. A different measurement approach to state immigrant policy climates than seen in some related work (and how results vary)

2. Evidence of immigrant linked fate, a nascent area of work
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This finding is in tension with much prior work that shows that hostile policy climates provoke linked fate.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I measure state immigrant policy inclusiveness using an additive index on policy issues spanning public benefits, law enforcement, and integration.

📌 Inclusive policies are associated with *increased* feelings of linked fate to other immigrants, but there is no effect on co-ethnic linked fate.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
In AP research:
1. Moral judgements and cultural values - perception of law and order is important, even to Dems
2. Concerns over criminality, being "unvetted"
3. Perception that undocumented = poor and more likely to use welfare (untrue)

A good place to start: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide: The Role of Categorical and Attribute-Based Decision-Making - Political Behavior
Scholars debate the relative strength of economic and ‘socio-psychological’ sources of anti-immigrant sentiment. However, the literature often fails to distinguish legal from illegal immigration and t...
link.springer.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Reposted by Taylor Trummel
📢 Chan & Landgrave find that many Americans hold an immigrant identity—distinct from race or origin—and that its strength varies by race and generation.

🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Taylor Trummel
1. When a country turns authoritarian, democracy often bounce back. A recent article shows that this happens in more than half (52%) of all episode - this is what they call U-Turns. The statistics look even better in recent years; here democracy has made a comeback in 73% of the cases.
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM