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Tak-Huen Chau

@thchau.bsky.social

Assistant prof @lsegovernment.bsky.social‬ 💭: (formal) theory | social identities / movements | political behavior 🌐: thchau.net he/him 🇭🇰🏳️‍🌈

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Konstantin Bogatyrev@bogatyrev.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today at 4pm GMT: @thchau.bsky.social is presenting "More than Tolerance" at the @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar, organised together with @sarahobolt.bsky.social, @florianfoos.bsky.social & @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom!

More than Tolerance: Disentangling White Americans' Attitudes for Minority Cultural Maintenance Do votes for pro-assimilation policies reflect hostility toward minority cultures? While support for "English-only" laws is often interpreted as a desire to penalize minority traits, I argue these choices may instead reflect a positive preference for minority cultural maintenance and an even more positive preference over minorities acquiring dominant group traits. I provide a formal conceptual framework and test this using a pre-registered pilot survey containing a belief elicitation task and a discrete choice experiment (N=580 US non-Hispanic Whites). The aim is to disentangle policy choices from underlying cultural preferences and beliefs on policy efficacy. First, contrary to expectations of unalloyed hostility, respondents display a significant, positive willingness-to-pay (WTP) for maintaining student Spanish proficiency: a preference that holds even among Trump voters and supporters of restrictive language policies. Second, this support is structurally conditional: the WTP for Spanish drops significantly when minority proficiency threatens to exceed dominant language proficiency (a "kink" in preferences). The conditionality holds even among subgroups such as Harris voters and those who support bilingual policies. Finally, I show that policy choice is strongly predicted by instrumental beliefs: voters choose English Immersion not because they undervalue Spanish, but because they believe Bilingual Education fails to teach English. These findings suggest pro-assimilation policy choices among non-Hispanic White voters may not reflect a desire to penalize minority traits, but rather a stronger relative preference for dominant group traits and beliefs about policy constraints. I conclude with questions and possible directions for follow-ups.
Florian Foos@florianfoos.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour Seminar Series will be back for the '25/26 academic year, as usually on Thursdays, 4-5pm, in CBG 4.17. Let us know if you are external and want to attend in-person, or join remotely on Zoom. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr.

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2y ago

so the party that tells young men not go to college because it’s gay has a feudal tech faction that hates hiring women but is ok with hiring brown men under strict visas that tie them to employers and the ethnonationalist faction doesn’t like that so the tech faction is doing social media censorship