For 19 years, a majority-Black Memphis district was represented by Steve Cohen—a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Tennessee didn’t gerrymander to remove a Black legislator. They did it to disempower Black voters. Our new @prospect.org piece on what Callais really costs:

The American Prospect@prospect.org · 2mo ago

Millions of voters of color will no longer be able to elect a representative of their choice. But what’s at stake is far bigger: whether voters of color can elect legislators whose votes actually reflect their policy preferences. prospect.org?p=139239

Which groups win policy under each party? Whites under Republicans, minorities under Democrats New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Agustin Markarian www.niskanencenter.org/which-groups...

Which groups win policy under each party? - Niskanen Center

Agustin Markarian finds that different groups see their policy preferences better represented depending on which party is in power.

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🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Why are many Latino immigrants *not* naturalizing, learning English, and participating in American politics? We provide new theory and evidence across 3 surveys and an instrumental variables approach to show how migration motives shape immigrant integration. tinyurl.com/3expvu8e

Read Jack and I's APSR article! TLDR: we present theory and causal, externally valid, evidence demonstrating anti-LGBTQ+ violence provokes prosocial attitudes toward LGBTQ people, but this is a fleeting effect due to salience loss, event framing, and countervailing societal heteronormativity

APSA@apsa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members Fickle Prosociality: How Violence against LGBTQ+ People Motivates Prosocial Mass Attitudes toward LGBTQ+ Group Members By Marcel F. Roman, Harvard University and Jack Thompson,…

(with apologies that I've posted this a few times before. Now that it's published, expect me to be annoying with it -- but as we wait for SCOTUS to potentially harm what remains of the VRA, understanding what happened last time is very important!)

Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

This is an important paper at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. It's not exactly surprising that racism undermines effective representation, but it is well and carefully done. Congrats to @markarianga.bsky.social, @jacobhacker.bsky.social, @maclockhart.bsky.social, and Hajnal doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Our new @apsrjournal.bsky.social is out! We study whether policy and congresspeople are more responsive to White Americans than racial minorities, matching individual level opinion to policy outcomes and roll call votes on 134 issues using 500K survey responses from 2016-2022. 1/n

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 9mo ago

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking - https://cup.org/47BDxm1 - G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN, @jacobhacker.bsky.social, @maclockhart.bsky.social & ZOLTAN HAJNAL #FirstView

My new @ajpseditor.bsky.social article w/ V. Kogan & Z. Hajnal is now out. We show that Latinos are likelier to run for local office and win in cities that switch to on-cycle elections in CA. Election consolidation improves descriptive representation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

We examine how the timing of local elections affects the success of minority candidates, who remain woefully underrepresented in public office. We build on research showing that concurrent elections ...

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