Racial Identity and Evaluations of Civilian-Perpetrated Violence in the United States - Political Behavior

Recent racialized mass shootings have exposed a gap in understanding political responses to these incidents and how they are perceived by people of shared identity with the targeted group. I argue tha...

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The Effects of SMS Mobilization, Message, and Timing on Voter Turnout - Political Behavior

SMS messages have become a popular tool of voter mobilization by political campaigns and advocacy groups in the United States, yet empirical evidence of their impact is inconclusive. We engage 7.1 mil...

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How Partisan Policy Threat Mobilizes Gun Owners: Evidence from Firearms Background Checks - Political Behavior

How does the threat of adverse policy change influence affected individuals? To answer this question, we explore the responses of gun owners following salient mass shootings and after the election of ...

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Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Stain: Political Trust After Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises in China - Political Behavior

Mass opposition to governments implementing economic liberalization reforms remains a key puzzle in the political economy of transitions. This article investigates this puzzle by examining the politic...

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Do Muslim Citizens Welcome Fundamentalist Muslim Immigrants? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Kazakhstan - Political Behavior

How do Muslim citizens respond to immigrants who hold fundamentalist interpretations of Islam? Although the social science literature has examined public perceptions of Muslim fundamentalists, it has ...

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The Political Ramifications of Sermon Rhetoric Among White U.S. Protestants and White Catholics - Political Behavior

White evangelical Protestants support Republican Party presidential candidates at rates much higher than White Catholics and White mainline Protestants. I argue that local evangelical Protestant sermo...

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The Causes of Opposition to Teaching About Racism - Political Behavior

There is an ongoing effort to prevent professors from teaching about racism. Such restrictions are sometimes justified by pointing to concerns that are seemingly not about race, including the need to ...

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How Cross-Cutting Ties Reduce Affective Polarization: Evidence from Latino Americans - Political Behavior

Affective polarization—that is, personal dislike and distrust between Democrats and Republicans—is argued to arise, at least in part, from fewer cross-cutting ties that bridge Democrats and Republican...

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The Economic Consequences of Protest Repression: The Case of Business Activism in Hong Kong - Political Behavior

Studies of contentious politics have extensively examined the impacts of protest repression on mobilization, but the implications of repression on economic phenomena have received little attention. Th...

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What Explains Country-Level Differences in Political Belief System Coherence? - Political Behavior

Although public opinion research has made tremendous progress in identifying the conditions under which citizens adopt coherent political beliefs, comparatively little attention has been paid to the r...

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Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior

Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

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The Democratic Dilemma among Elites: Do Legislators Make More Reasoned Decisions than the Public? - Political Behavior

Are legislators knowledgeable enough to make good public policy decisions? We examine three aspects of legislators’ decision-making: how much they know about the consequences of policy proposals, spec...

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The Insurance Value of Abortion and Support for Reproductive Rights - Political Behavior

Existing scholarship holds that Americans’ views on abortion policy are determined by their moral and religious beliefs. In this article, we argue that these beliefs are only part of the story. We pro...

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Labor vs. Big Business: Interest Groups, Cue-Taking, and Voting Behavior - Political Behavior

How do individuals interpret interest group cues to make informed voting decisions that are aligned with their partisan identities and ideologies? In the 2020 election cycle, Californians voted on a b...

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When Push Comes to Shove: How Americans Excuse and Condemn Political Violence - Political Behavior

What factors do Americans find most important when evaluating acts of political violence? Normatively, details regarding the violent act (e.g., the target and violence severity) should determine the p...

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Language Cues and Perceptions of Nationalism - Political Behavior

How do people respond to symbols related to nationalism, and does having political context matter? We argue that nationalist symbols influence perceptions when in a political context. Leveraging that ...

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Is Satisfaction with Democracy Higher After Transitional Justice Trials? - Political Behavior

Trials are considered the most polarizing measure of transitional justice, as they have harsh consequences on the prosecuted and may criminalize a portion of the previous authoritarian elite that migh...

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Fuel on the Fire: Has the Politics of COVID-19 Accelerated Secularization in America? - Political Behavior

Politics increasingly shapes Americans’ social orientations, including their religious affiliations and levels of religiosity. Less is known about whether politics affects secularism—an affirmative em...

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Crisis and Correction: Do Government Rectification Efforts Restore Citizen Trust After Governance Failure? - Political Behavior

In a substantial literature on political trust in normal times, we know little about the impact on trust of crises or subsequent government efforts at correction. We investigate these impacts by analy...

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It’s the Economy: The Effect of Economic Policy Appeals on Latino Independents - Political Behavior

Studies of minority voters have long considered the role of both ethnic identities and economic interests. However, research on Latino voters emphasizes ethnic identity and the related issue of immigr...

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Am I Eligible to Register? Registration Rules, Eligibility Uncertainty, and Youth Voter Turnout - Political Behavior

Is a lack of information about eligibility rules partly responsible for the particularly low youth voter turnout in U.S. elections? In a context where new voters usually have to register several weeks...

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From Losers’ Consent to Winners’ Restraint: Citizens Reactions to Accumulating Democratic Violations - Political Behavior

While ‘losers’ consent’ has long been recognized as crucial for democratic stability, recent concerns over elite manipulation of democratic processes highlight the need to shift focus to the responsib...

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How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating - Political Behavior

Can we use the way that people respond to information as evidence that partisan bias or directional motives influence political beliefs? It depends. Using one natural formalization of motivated reason...

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The Nature of Online Talk: Incivility of Opposing Views and Affective Polarization - Political Behavior

Affective polarization is on the rise. Increasing polarization is often attributed to the nature of political discussion on social media platforms, but little is known about the affective consequences...

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The Role of Education in Political Information Processing and Correct Voting: Inequality at the Voting Booth? - Political Behavior

It has been well established that the effectiveness and quality of political representation is unequally distributed in Western democracies. Scholars have frequently warned about the rise of ‘diploma ...

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Americans’ Opposition to Muslim Immigration: Untangling Religion from Country of Origin - Political Behavior

Does an immigrant’s country of origin shape Americans’ immigration preferences? If so, are some attributes of origin countries likely to provoke particularly strong opposition over others? We answer t...

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