Raquel Centeno
@rcenteno.bsky.social
Postdoc at Caltech Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy | partisan polarization + identity + experiments + surveys | motherly figure to 1 angry cat | she/her | racenteno.github.io
🚨 new research alert! 🚨 Check out the latest @caltechlcssp.bsky.social blog summarizing my new project with @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social 👇 We use the 2024 CMPS to provide newly precise estimates of voter confidence across racial & ethnic groups, demonstrating a racial gap in voter confidence 🗳️
Catch the latest #ElectionScienceFieldNotes Substack article from @caltech.edu's @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social co-director & @rcenteno.bsky.social, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social postdoc scholar teaching fellow. 🟠Read full article: electionscience.substack.com/p/elections-...
Elections Are About People
June 2, 2026 Primary Vote Center Observation Reflections
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I'm attending #AAPOR2026 for the first time this week and super excited to delve into all things surveys and public opinion! ✨ I'm hoping to connect with lots of new people and reconnect with others, so let me know if you'll be there! Looking forward to lots of good chats and research 😌
Today at 1 pm ET! Join us for the final Spring workshop of the semester: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS May 6: Endorsements and Interest groups. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS May 6: Endorsements and Interest groups. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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"An American Problem" is now available for pre-order at online bookshops! The project traces the rise of the Voting Rights Act. And then we show all the ways that SCOTUS's Shelby County decision has been a disaster. As the Court considers attacking the VRA again this term, we hope it's insightful.
An American Problem: How the Country Built--And the Supreme Court Broke--The Voting Rights ACT
How the Country Built--And the Supreme Court Broke--The Voting Rights ACT
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Join us at 1 ET! 🏛️👩⚖️💭 virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS March 18: Executive Politics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS March 18: Executive Politics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Junior Americanist Workshop Series@jawspolisci.bsky.social · 5mo agoComing up this week: Join us at 1 pm ET, Wednesday 3/18 for our next JAWS Session on executive politics! Read the papers, learn more about the participants, and register here: jawspolisci.network
Coming up this week: Join us at 1 pm ET, Wednesday 3/18 for our next JAWS Session on executive politics! Read the papers, learn more about the participants, and register here: jawspolisci.network
Junior Americanist Workshop Series
A virtual workshop for American politics research.
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Today! At 1 pm ET!! We're hearing from two great scholars discussing their work on public opinion!!! Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS March 4: Public Opinion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS March 4: Public Opinion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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I've got a piece out today @theatlantic.com with @dashunwang.bsky.social on how the Republican Party in Congress continues to fund science, pushing back against the Trump Administration's most anti science funding proposals. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Republicans Made Peace With Science
The Trump administration’s hostility to science is real, but it isn’t matched by the rest of the GOP’s.
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TODAY come learn from people with cool careers about what it's like to look for jobs & work in industry! We may be Americanists, but all subfields are welcome!!!
Junior Americanist Workshop Series@jawspolisci.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin us TODAY at 3 pm ET for an awesome panel on alt-ac careers in polling, tech, consulting, and beyond! Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us TODAY at 3 pm ET for an awesome panel on alt-ac careers in polling, tech, consulting, and beyond! Register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
Coming up this week: JAWS Spring Professionalization Panel! Join us to learn about the alt-ac pipeline, and hear from folks from @brookings.edu, GQR insights, Accenture, and @today.yougov.com! Join us Friday at 3 pm, and register here: virginia.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Feb. 6 Professionalization Panel: Alternative Academic Careers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Hi!!! I'm in the process of working on my syllabus for a course focused on US parties/partisanship/polarization. If anyone's taught a similar course and is willing to share their syllabus, I'd really appreciate seeing how others have done this! Plugs for undergrad friendly papers also welcome (:
Final JAWS of the semester! ⬇️
Junior Americanist Workshop Series@jawspolisci.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin us NOW for our final session of the semester! Today we’re focused on Congress and have some very cool research for you ✨ Join us to learn more about how reps respond to voter ID laws & congressional oversight overseas! Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us NOW for our final session of the semester! Today we’re focused on Congress and have some very cool research for you ✨ Join us to learn more about how reps respond to voter ID laws & congressional oversight overseas! Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS 5: Congress. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS 5: Congress. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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A productive day of making many version of many plots 😮💨 For some reason putting together the final visuals always makes my work feel much more real!
Our next session is happening NOW!!! Join us to hear about Stephanie Mathiasen's research on congressional campaign use of Google ads 📈 Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS 4: Web Campaigns. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JAWS 4: Web Campaigns. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Still in elections mode after this past Tuesday's goings-on? Well you're in luck! Join us next Wednesday, November 12 at 1:00-2:30PM ET for a workshop on "Web Campaigns" featuring @stephmathiasen.bsky.social and Shun Yamaya! Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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What's more fear-inducing than ghosts, ghouls, and goblins on Halloween week!?! Sharks! (JK) Join us this Wednesday (10/29) at 1PM ET for our next session on Shifts in Racial Liberalism and Class Politics featuring Marco Avina and Jack Garigliano! Register here: american.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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🚨 Call for PostDoc or Visiting PhD Student 🚨 apply.interfolio.com/175219 We're seeking an American Politics scholar of leg. institutions or representation, under the direction of Jim Curry, Jeff Harden, and Rachel Porter (me!), affiliated with our Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab
📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd
If you live in California, take 5 minutes out of your day to leave a message with the Governor's Office. Tell @gavinnewsom.bsky.social that California needs to fight homelessness, stop our state's population decline and arrest climate change caused by super-commuters. All he has to do is sign SB 79.
Brian Hanlon@hanlon.bsky.social · 11mo agoPlease call the Governor and ask him to sign SB 79! (916) 445-2841
Are you into voters/parties/ideology/elections/administrative data? Then we have good news!✨ 🦈 Our first session of Fall 2025 is tomorrow 10/1 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT 🦈 We'll have 2 great papers on 🗳️ Voting & Elections 🗳️ from Pei-Hsun Hsieh (UPenn) and Graham Straus (UCLA)
🌊🦈 WE'RE BACK!!! 🌊🦈 Update your calendars bc JAWS is back for Fall 2025 📅 And our first session is next week, Wed 10/1! Also: NEW TIME! We've heard our old time was difficult for those with school pickups, so our new time is 1-2:30PM ET / 10-11:30AM PT 💫 More info below ⬇️
Why don't you continue the momentum from APSA and present your work at JAWS? We are still taking submissions! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
JAWS Sign-Up Form--Fall 2024
Please use the form below to submit your project for potential inclusion in the Junior Americanist Workshop Series (JAWS), volunteer to serve as a discussant, and/or sign up for email updates.
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Junior Americanist Workshop Series@jawspolisci.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe're still making new friends! Are you a junior scholar in *any* area of American politics? Consider submitting to present (especially if you're on the academic market)! Are you hoping to serve our subfield? Consider volunteering as discussant! 👉 forms.gle/rKMwHFWS1E5G... Deets 👇