Tony Carey Jr.
@tonyecareyjr.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science pitt.bsky.social | Co-lead editor of Politics, Groups, and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social| Director, Pitt Identity Politics Lab
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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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June 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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📢 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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📢 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.
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📢 Achury et al. find that including Latinos in judicial panels boosts procedural legitimacy but not substantive legitimacy in immigration cases. Diversity improves views of the court’s fairness, regardless of the outcome.
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The dimensions of judicial legitimacy: assessing the impact of Latino representation
What does the inclusion of Latinos in judicial panels signal to White citizens when the decision alters policy commonly associated with Latinos? Do these signals differ based on whether the decisio...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Achury et al. find that including Latinos in judicial panels boosts procedural legitimacy but not substantive legitimacy in immigration cases. Diversity improves views of the court’s fairness, regardless of the outcome.
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📢 Kaur & Philips find that gender quotas foster upward mobility in political carreers, while caste quotas create barriers, particularly for marginalized men, showing how different quotas shape long-term political representation.
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Sustainable representation through electoral quotas: evidence from India
Do electoral quotas promote or impede candidates moving up the political ladder? While quotas facilitate initial entry into politics, their impact on subsequent career advancement remains understud...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
📢 Kaur & Philips find that gender quotas foster upward mobility in political carreers, while caste quotas create barriers, particularly for marginalized men, showing how different quotas shape long-term political representation.
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📢 Davies reflects on Cathy Cohen’s work and calls for expansive methodologies in Black politics research, emphasizing the inclusion of marginalized identities and innovative approaches that highlight the productive motions of Black life.
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Dear political science: tools for the study of black (life and) politics
With the invitation to reflect upon the founders of the Black politics subfield, this article considers the work of Cathy Cohen. I particularly focus on her essay “Deviance as Resistance: A New Res...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📢 Davies reflects on Cathy Cohen’s work and calls for expansive methodologies in Black politics research, emphasizing the inclusion of marginalized identities and innovative approaches that highlight the productive motions of Black life.
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Reny & Guest find that persuasive messages on immigration only shift attitudes when elite messengers reinforce shared identities, highlighting how co-identity reinforcement primes are key to making anti-exclusionary messages effective.
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Viewers like you: the effect of elite co-identity reinforcement on U.S. immigration attitudes
As the political salience of immigrant-origin minorities continues to increase in the United States and Europe, researchers are increasingly focused on understanding what interventions reduce exclu...
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January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reny & Guest find that persuasive messages on immigration only shift attitudes when elite messengers reinforce shared identities, highlighting how co-identity reinforcement primes are key to making anti-exclusionary messages effective.
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Walker, McCabe, & Matos find that white Americans with a loved one who is a Latino immigrant develop more positive attitudes toward immigrants and are less likely to support punitive immigration policies.
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Proximal contact with Latino immigrants and immigration attitudes
The growth of the Latino community has increased levels of contact between this minority group and the predominately white majority. How does exposure to immigrants impact attitudes towards immigra...
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January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walker, McCabe, & Matos find that white Americans with a loved one who is a Latino immigrant develop more positive attitudes toward immigrants and are less likely to support punitive immigration policies.
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📢 Do sexual misconduct allegations affect views of Trump? Klar & McCoy find new accusations reduce approval among #MeToo-supporting Democrats but have no impact on Republicans, highlighting partisan divides.
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The #MeToo movement and attitudes toward President Trump in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation
Did sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump affect evaluations of him, particularly among supporters of the #MeToo Movement? In this research note, we present two-wave panel data from...
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December 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM
📢 Do sexual misconduct allegations affect views of Trump? Klar & McCoy find new accusations reduce approval among #MeToo-supporting Democrats but have no impact on Republicans, highlighting partisan divides.
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📢 Does perceived sexism explain why women are seen as less electable? Simas finds no strong connection but confirms women face disadvantages, urging broader studies on electability beyond sex.
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It’s not me, it’s you? Reexamining how perceived sexism impacts candidate electability
The 2020 US Presidential Election put the focus on the electability of women, and the emerging consensus is that perceptions of the sexism of others contribute to views that women are less able to ...
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December 11, 2024 at 12:20 AM
📢 Does perceived sexism explain why women are seen as less electable? Simas finds no strong connection but confirms women face disadvantages, urging broader studies on electability beyond sex.
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📢 What drives far-right extremism in U.S. local politics? Wippell finds demographic diversity and economic status shape support for the constitutional sheriff movement, with racial, not nativity-based, dynamics driving extremism.
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“To protect and serve” … and rule: constitutional sheriffs and the emergence of far-right extremism within local politics
This paper explores the emergence of far-right extremism within local political institutions in the United States. Building on theories of intergroup contact and group threat, I hypothesize a set o...
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December 2, 2024 at 4:56 PM
📢 What drives far-right extremism in U.S. local politics? Wippell finds demographic diversity and economic status shape support for the constitutional sheriff movement, with racial, not nativity-based, dynamics driving extremism.
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📢 Why are Latino candidates underrepresented in U.S. politics? Ocampo & Ray find party elites give fewer endorsements to Latino candidates, limiting their chances of winning and reflecting poor integration into partisan networks.
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Many are called but few are chosen: the emergence of Latino congressional candidates
Prior work has shown that Latino candidates do not under-perform compared to other candidates, and that Latino underrepresentation is a function of supply rather than demand (Juenke, Eric Gonzalez....
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November 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
📢 Why are Latino candidates underrepresented in U.S. politics? Ocampo & Ray find party elites give fewer endorsements to Latino candidates, limiting their chances of winning and reflecting poor integration into partisan networks.
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📢 Mayer & Parks find that partisan victimhood narratives strengthen group identity, with Republican victimization perceptions more entrenched. Conservative media reinforces this, especially among those with strong partisan ties.
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Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US
Political partisanship is typically understood as a social identity. Partisans vary in the strength of their identity – some are deeply attached to their partisanship, while for others it is not hi...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
📢 Mayer & Parks find that partisan victimhood narratives strengthen group identity, with Republican victimization perceptions more entrenched. Conservative media reinforces this, especially among those with strong partisan ties.
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📢 Clealand & Gutierrez find that racial identity & skin color shape group closeness. Trigueño & medium-skin-toned Puerto Ricans feel closer to Latinos, while Black-identifying & darker-skinned Latinos report more linked fate with Black people.
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More than brown: how race and skin tone matter for Latino group identity
How can we more accurately measure racial identity among Latinos? Does Latinos’ self-described race and/or skin color influence feelings of closeness with racial rather than ethnic groups? This art...
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February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
📢 Clealand & Gutierrez find that racial identity & skin color shape group closeness. Trigueño & medium-skin-toned Puerto Ricans feel closer to Latinos, while Black-identifying & darker-skinned Latinos report more linked fate with Black people.
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📢 Zimmerman examines situational trust in Black politics, showing how some community members of three South Side Chicago neighborhoods collaborate with distrusted institutions to address violence.
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Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence
This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...
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February 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
📢 Zimmerman examines situational trust in Black politics, showing how some community members of three South Side Chicago neighborhoods collaborate with distrusted institutions to address violence.
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📢 Udani & Wedding show how accompaniment scholarship allows political scientists to work alongside asylum seekers rather than studying them. They demonstrate how this approach strengthens political skills and policymaking participation.
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The Case for accompaniment in struggles against the state: designing ethically sensible and response research partnerships in political science
Civically engaged research involves political scientists collaborating with research partners to strengthen the governance of social problems. Yet, how can academics play a role in the co-productio...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Udani & Wedding show how accompaniment scholarship allows political scientists to work alongside asylum seekers rather than studying them. They demonstrate how this approach strengthens political skills and policymaking participation.
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📢 Skinner uses an experiment to show how framing refugee policy, especially as a security threat, shapes public opinion. Security frames drive partisan divides, revealing the impact of rhetoric on support for restrictive policies.
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How security framing creates disagreement in public opinion: evidence from US refugee policy
Using an experiment, I attempt to unpack the relationship between political communication and public opinion on a salient and purportedly polarizing issue: refugee policy. I theorize that public di...
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March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
📢 Skinner uses an experiment to show how framing refugee policy, especially as a security threat, shapes public opinion. Security frames drive partisan divides, revealing the impact of rhetoric on support for restrictive policies.
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📢 Manion et al. find that women and people of color are underrepresented on municipal boards and commissions in Missouri, especially on powerful boards. Female mayors help reduce gender gaps, and racial representation varies across cities.
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Representation matters: assessing the gender and racial divide in Missouri's municipal boards
Municipal boards and commissions enable citizen participation in local government, provide expertise, foster community engagement, and contribute to effective governance. However, there is a dearth...
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April 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📢 Manion et al. find that women and people of color are underrepresented on municipal boards and commissions in Missouri, especially on powerful boards. Female mayors help reduce gender gaps, and racial representation varies across cities.
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📢 How do racial attitudes influence white Americans' vote choice? LeVan & Greene find anti-Black attitudes shape white voting, with resentful Democrats abandoning their party and Republicans becoming less likely to split their vote.
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Undermining the party: anti-black attitudes, presidential vote choice, and split-ticket voting among white voters
American politics has entered, what Michael Tesler calls, a “most racial period,” causing racial attitudes to be increasingly salient. This shift provides an opportunity to examine the consequences...
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October 21, 2024 at 9:12 PM
📢 How do racial attitudes influence white Americans' vote choice? LeVan & Greene find anti-Black attitudes shape white voting, with resentful Democrats abandoning their party and Republicans becoming less likely to split their vote.
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📢With the U.S. election approaching, Berry, Cepuran, & Garcia-Rios provide timely insights! They show that perceived group discrimination shaped 2016 votes, with Whites feeling discriminated favoring Trump, and Latinos leaning toward Clinton.
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Relative group discrimination and vote choice among Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Whites
Scholars of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) have demonstrated that discrimination shapes the political behavior of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Whites. This scholarship, however, tends to focus...
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November 4, 2024 at 9:32 PM
📢With the U.S. election approaching, Berry, Cepuran, & Garcia-Rios provide timely insights! They show that perceived group discrimination shaped 2016 votes, with Whites feeling discriminated favoring Trump, and Latinos leaning toward Clinton.
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📢 Are Muslims portrayed more negatively in the U.S. media than other religious groups? Bleich & van der Veen find that coverage of Muslims is more negative, driven by stories on extremism and foreign events.
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Media portrayals of Muslims: a comparative sentiment analysis of American newspapers, 1996–2015
Are Muslims portrayed more negatively than other religious groups? If so, what factors are associated with this negativity? We apply computer-assisted, lexicon-based coding to over 850,000 articles...
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November 11, 2024 at 9:02 PM
📢 Are Muslims portrayed more negatively in the U.S. media than other religious groups? Bleich & van der Veen find that coverage of Muslims is more negative, driven by stories on extremism and foreign events.
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📢 Why do some Americans support family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border? Bracic et al. find ethnocultural nationalism -- beliefs about religion, ethnicity, and gender -- explains support better than generalized nationalism.
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Ethnocultural or generalized? Nationalism and support for punitive immigration policy
The revelation that the Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.–Mexico border and placed them in detention facilities sparked protests across the country i...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:57 AM
📢 Why do some Americans support family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border? Bracic et al. find ethnocultural nationalism -- beliefs about religion, ethnicity, and gender -- explains support better than generalized nationalism.
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Using an experiment in Serbia,
@pcunhasilva
and William Brocha find that manipulating the alphabet can influence the public's evaluation of a politician's levels of nationalism. And they find that cue is as effective for women and men www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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and William Brocha find that manipulating the alphabet can influence the public's evaluation of a politician's levels of nationalism. And they find that cue is as effective for women and men www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
February 11, 2024 at 5:02 AM
Using an experiment in Serbia,
@pcunhasilva
and William Brocha find that manipulating the alphabet can influence the public's evaluation of a politician's levels of nationalism. And they find that cue is as effective for women and men www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
@pcunhasilva
and William Brocha find that manipulating the alphabet can influence the public's evaluation of a politician's levels of nationalism. And they find that cue is as effective for women and men www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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Using a survey experiment, Albert H.Fang and
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find that exposure to historical information increases beliefs of the existence of racial inequality and beliefs in structural causes of racial inequality www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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find that exposure to historical information increases beliefs of the existence of racial inequality and beliefs in structural causes of racial inequality www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
February 14, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Using a survey experiment, Albert H.Fang and
@notstevenwhite
find that exposure to historical information increases beliefs of the existence of racial inequality and beliefs in structural causes of racial inequality www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
@notstevenwhite
find that exposure to historical information increases beliefs of the existence of racial inequality and beliefs in structural causes of racial inequality www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
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Using a pre-registered experiment,
@UptonOrwell
and
@iganson
find that a 'Shot-to-Win' message increases Republican identifiers' openess to Covid-19 vaccination by framing it as a way to defeat the opposing party. www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
@UptonOrwell
and
@iganson
find that a 'Shot-to-Win' message increases Republican identifiers' openess to Covid-19 vaccination by framing it as a way to defeat the opposing party. www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
March 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Using a pre-registered experiment,
@UptonOrwell
and
@iganson
find that a 'Shot-to-Win' message increases Republican identifiers' openess to Covid-19 vaccination by framing it as a way to defeat the opposing party. www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
@UptonOrwell
and
@iganson
find that a 'Shot-to-Win' message increases Republican identifiers' openess to Covid-19 vaccination by framing it as a way to defeat the opposing party. www-tandfonline-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....