How has critical information from international human rights orgs and left-wing Jewish American orgs shaped U.S. public opinion of the Israel-Palestine conflict? Sandlin and Simmons find that criticism from Jewish-American orgs negatively impact U.S. public opinion of Israel.

How do administrative burdens influence who shows up to immigration court hearings? Sullivan argues that difficult commutes can increase missed hearings and subsequently lead to deportation orders. She finds that virtual hearings increases the likelihood of hearing attendance.

Holden and Schildkraut validate a four item scale to measure gendered personality instead of the 20-question Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). They use novel survey data to identify two masculine and two feminine traits for an abbreviated version of the BSRI in future research.

Mutz et al. compare racist attitudes in Germany with a conventional survey and a list experiment (LE). They ask if respondents oppose nomination of athletes of color to German national teams, with 12.5% expressing a racist response in the LE and 1.4% in the conventional survey.

How do racial animus and income correlate with support for UBI? Bloeser & Tomkiewicz investigate this, finding that lower income racially resentful Whites are more likely to support UBI than other welfare policy but this does not hold with racially resentful higher income Whites.

How do Australian voters feel about Indigenous politics? Foxworth et al. explore this, surveying voters on support for the creation of an Indigenous advisory board, finding Indigenous voters significantly more supportive, as well as predictors for non-Indigenous support.

How do the five US territories regulate civil rights for sexual minorities? Peterson explores debates among territory officials to provide a framework for how territorial officials regulate the lives of their queer residents.

How does the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement contribute to our understanding of democracy? Cline and Krewson demonstrate that the EJ movement holds governments and larger environmental orgs accountable. They draw on the case of Uprose, a grassroots EJ org in Brooklyn, NY.

Do voters apply different standards of parental responsibility to mother and father candidates? Venugopalan finds that both mothers and fathers suffer from negative parenting information, justifications improved their evaluations, and the penalty and recovery was equal for both.

Why do locals engage in politics? Using Ohio labor unions, Reuning draws on social movement literature to posit that locals engage in politics when they have excess resources—although engagement might be hampered by internal divisions.

Wise demonstrates how consumer credit perpetuates racial hierarchy in the United States. She argues that predatory inclusion is best understood as "accumulation through dispossession, naturalized by race and structured through intersectionality." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intersectional and historical contingencies in racial capitalism: credit scores and predatory inclusion in American political economy

This article develops a racial capitalist theory of predatory inclusion to explain how consumer credit reproduces racial hierarchy in the United States. Predatory inclusion describes how marginaliz...

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How do conservative think tanks weaponize framing to counter the messaging of social activism? Carter & Jones ask this in their article, analyzing how conservative think tanks opposed social activism through their framing of the BLM protests of 2020. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The summer of 2020: racialized framing and how threat is used to oppose social activism

The purpose of this paper is to assess if and how a prominent conservative think tank borrows framing tactics from dominant racial ideologies in public discourse to oppose prominent cases of police...

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Laws and SoRelle find that although people view individual Black students are more deserving of debt relief, this sentiment does not translate to positive views on racially-targeted debt relief policies or race based rhetoric on debt relief. Read Here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The racial politics of student debt relief policy

While millions of Americans struggle with student loan debt, Black students are disproportionately reliant on loans to finance their education and bear the largest debt burdens as a result. Many po...

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How does American public opinion on transgender people, and the safety of women and children affect the passage of trans "bathroom bills"? Miller et al. explore this, finding beliefs here to have distinct effects on attitudes toward these bills. Read here doi.org/10.1080/2156...

Policing gender in the bathroom: attitudes toward the transgender bathroom issue

“Bathroom bills” that require transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond to their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity have become law in many states, some i...

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📢How can we better capture the nuances of Latino racial identity? Clealand & Gutierrez investigate this, challenging a homogenous view of racial identity and finding differing racial identities between mixed & medium skin tone Latinos, and Black Latinos. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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📢What is the role of the criminal legal system in perpetuating racial oppression? Middlemass explores this in her article, drawing a framework for racial oppression from the work of Dr. Mae King, applying it to the criminal legal system. Read Here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The politics of oppression and power: applying the work of Dr. Mae Coates King to the criminal legal system

Black political and socioeconomic life diverges from other racial groups in America because of white supremacy. Black political scientists contributed to the study of white supremacy by centering B...

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📢What can we learn from the oral histories of Black politics? McClerking & Block Jr. explore this in their article, analyzing these stories and what they can tell us about political science's relationship with research on Black people. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Seeing around corners”: what oral histories of the founders of Black politics teach us about political science’s reluctance to prioritize research on Black people

Through oral histories shared by early-generation scholars, we celebrate the narratives of Black political scientists. Such narratives illustrate the reluctance of the discipline to prioritize eith...

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📢How can "deviant" Black politics destabilize dominant views within political science, and better analyze blackness and politics? Davies explores this in her article, analyzing Black scholarship and encouraging methodological pluralism in Black politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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📢Interested in understanding racial politics from the perspective of Black political scholarship? Take a look at the PGI special issue "FLOWERS FOR THE FOUNDERS: A CONTEMPORARY REVISITING OF CANONICAL BLACK POLITICS SCHOLARSHIP?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Flowers for the founders: the guest editors’ introduction

Published in Politics, Groups, and Identities (Vol. 13, No. 5, 2025)

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📢 Antisemitism, Israel, & campus politics, what is the relationship? Wright, Hecht, & Saxe find that anti-Jewish sentiments are more common on the far-right; anti-Israel sentiments some consider antisemitic are more common on the left. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/2156...

Antisemitism, Israel, and political ideology on the American college campus

Since October 7, 2023, antisemitism on American campuses has become a contested political issue. Scholars of antisemitism argue that the relationship between antisemitism and political ideology fol...

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📢 What drives civic engagement with women’s organizations? Jackson & Torres-Beltran show that individuals favor local, hands-on organizations, regardless of gender, feminist identity, or prior volunteer experience. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Volunteer for whom? Local and direct preferences for civic engagement with women's organizations

What drives engagement with civic organizations addressing women's issues? While past work suggests that individuals' preferences regarding civic engagement are influenced by geographic proximity, ...

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One of the most read articles published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social in the last year: After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement, by Jason Pierceson www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement

After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....

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👋 Hello readers, and happy 2026! Before we move on to what’s new, here’s a quick recap of 2025: our Top-10 most read articles 🧵

📢 How are conservative judges reshaping LGBTQ rights after Bostock? Pierceson finds that while Bostock v. Clayton County expanded protections for transgender plaintiffs, some conservative judges now use Dobbs and past rulings to narrow those rights. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After Bostock: conservative judges, LGBTQ rights, and the conservative movement

After the groundbreaking LGBTQ rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), federal judges across the ideological spectrum used the decision to protect the rights of transgender plaintiffs....

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📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Latinx for Trump: disaggregating support among voters in 2020

This article analyzes predictors of support for Donald Trump among Latinx in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election to uncover variation within the broader category of Latinx voters. We analyze 2020 C...

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📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion. Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who protects transgender rights in congress? An analysis of gender identity inclusive policy entrepreneurship

The quality and strength of a democracy can be measured by how minority rights are protected against the interests of the majority. In the US, the rights of transgender people, a numerically small,...

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✊The article “Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156... #polisky

Theorizing justice from the margins: Black feminist insights on political (protest) behavior

Variations in perceptions of and attitudes towards justice animate how different people decide to engage in politics. In the US, political attitudes typically vary across salient identity markers s...

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📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Civil initiatives or hate marches? Unpacking anti-gender mobilizations and civic resistance in Türkiye

Since the mid-2000s, anti-gender mobilizations have gained global visibility, presenting themselves as civic defenders of traditional family values and national sovereignty against the perceived th...

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📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Representation and the legislative enterprise: an expanded view of staff representation

Abundant research highlights the importance of electoral representation for women and racial minorities in democratic governments. This literature focuses primarily on individuals elected to office...

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