Jennifer Hochschild
Biographic Data
| ID | 91051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hochschild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochschild |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHSCHILD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5979-1562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 694 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 108 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Americans’ perspectives on forensic and scientific genomic biobanks
Genomic biobanks are increasingly embedded in the United States’ criminal justice system and scientific research institutions. Yet, we do not clearly understand how much the public supports these societal uses, why they do (or do not), and whether public perspectives are even meaningful given minimal familiarity with biobanks. Few studies have queried representative samples of the U.S. public, and almost all address only one moment in time and on…
Local Experience, National Media, and Misperceptions of the Covid-19 Pandemic
What Constitutes an American Racial Institutional Order? Review Article on America's New Racial Battle Lines
Following up on their 2011 book, Still a House Divided, Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King argue in America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair, that the United States has recently entered a new racial institutional order. Its battle lines are organized around two alliances, each with social networks, control of some institutions, core political and ideological commitments, and specific policy goals. One alliance seeks to protect the h…
Sarah R. Coleman. The Walls Within
Journal Article Sarah R. Coleman. The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America. Get access Sarah R. Coleman. The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 253. Cloth $35.00. Jennifer Hochschild Jennifer Hochschild Harvard University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hi…
Learning from Experience? Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories and Their Implications for Democratic Discourse
Learning from Experience?COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Their Implications for Democratic Discourse Jennifer Hochschild (bio) and David Beavers (bio) in a survey fielded on march 7, 2020, more than three times as many Democrats as Republicans (61 percent and 20 percent, respectively) agreed that the United States was concealing the true scale of SARS-CoV-2 deaths. Republicans were nearly 20 percentage points more likely than Democrats (57 perce…
My Group or Myself? How Black, Latino, and White Americans Choose a Neighborhood, Job, and Candidate when Personal and Group Interest Diverge
Amid growing inequality within racial and ethnic groups, how do Americans decide where to live, where to work, and for whom to vote? While previous research has examined racial patterns in voting decisions, it provides less insight into individual-level decisions about neighborhoods, candidates, and employment—even while these decisions also organize the political world. We theorize about the role of a key variable stratifying these individual-le…
Looking Ahead
This chapter looks at racial and ethnic constructions and practices in the United States over the past century. Migration News is a scholarly publication that “summarizes the most important immigration and integration developments.” It is produced by Migration Dialogue, a group at the University of California, Davis, that aspires to provide “timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues.” An Irish Cath…
Loyalists and Switchers
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POLITICS IS OFTEN characterized as increasingly intense, even vituperative, and polarized between partisan identities or tribes.1 Many Democrats and Republicans claim to not want to live near people who do not share their political views, and close to half in some analyses claim they would be unhappy if a family member married someone of the other party.2 Citizens express “fear and loathing across party lines,” to the point …
Political Inequality, “Real” Public Preferences, Historical Comparisons & Axes of Disadvantage
The essays in this issue of Dædalus raise fascinating and urgent questions about inequality, time, and interdisciplinary research. They lead me to ask further questions about the public's commitment to reducing inequality, the importance of political power in explaining and reducing social and economic inequities, and the possible incommensurability of activists’ and policy-makers’ vantage points or job descriptions
Minutes of April 2017, Apsa Council Meeting
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How History Has Proven Albert Hirschman's Insight to Be Essential but Also Wrong
Albert Hirschman's The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy offers two sets of insights, designated roughly by the title and subtitle. Both are arresting, the subtitle because it seems so right and the title because history has proven it wrong, at least for now. Together they illuminate contemporary American politics. In Hirschman's analysis, perversity, futility, and jeopardy are arguments that conservatives use to halt progressi…
Minutes of April 2016, Apsa Council Meeting
Hochschild discussed her goals to improve the annual meeting, as well as improving
Apsa Active and Award Committees
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Donald Trump and the Politics of Anxiety and Resentment
Left Pessimism and Political Science
I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore subsidiary questions: What is the evidence of social scientists’ left pessimism? Why is left pessimism not the only plausible stance? Why is left pessimism problematic, and surprising? Why does it nonetheless occur? How can social scientists counter left pessimism?My evidence come…
Mismatch between (Some of) Apsa and (Some) Political Scientists
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Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work
When Work Disappears" has shaped research agendas on poverty, racial hierarchy, and urban social and economic dynamics. That is a lot for one article, yet two issues warrant more analysis. They are the ways in which socially defined "race" - rather than or in combination with class - explains the impact of sustained joblessness, and the political behaviours that may emerge in response to work's disappearance. I point to evidence showing that both…
Americans' Belief in Linked Fate
For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans' unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent years, the concept has been measured in other racial and ethnic groups and with regard to gender, but not applied to social statuses such as class or religion. Without broad comparisons across groups and different statuses, however, one cannot determine t…
Redistributive Implications of Open Access
This article addresses the virtues of gold open access (OA) from the perspective of its impact on social science scholarly associations and their members. OA has clear and obvious virtues, including redistribution downward and outward of research findings. But it also has the potential for upward redistribution or narrowing of the realm of publication, which this author finds troubling. A central question is who will cover article processing char…
Should Apsa’s Most Prominent Award Continue to be Named after a Racist
Woodrow Wilson is the only American political scientist to have served as President of the United States. In the time between his political science Ph.D. (from Johns Hopkins, in 1886) and his tenure as president (1913–21), he also served as president of Princeton University (1902–10) and president of the American Political Science Association (1909–10). Wilson is one of the most revered figures in American political thought and in American politi…
Apsa Renames Helen Dwight Reid Award for Merze Tate
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Apsa Inaugurates the Robert A. Dahl Award
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Chasing the American Dream
Mark Rank and his colleagues join a long list of authors (truth in advertising: including myself) who have struggled for decades to elucidate the bittersweet meaning and motivational force of the American Dream. The metaphor’s first definer, James Truslow Adams, lauded it in 1931 as the “dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman . . . unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than…
The Hero's fight
Robert Dahl
Robert Dahl’s greatness as a political scientist rested on three qualities: the analytic clarity of his definitions of democracy, his insistence on studying complex ideas such as ‘power’ in a systematic empirical manner, and his commitment to a moral or normative underpinning for one’s scholarship. He was a deep egalitarian intellectually and interpersonally. However, many of Dahl’s publications had a considerable blindspot; until late in life, h…
What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order
Dark-skinned blacks in the United States have lower socioeconomic status, more punitive relationships with the criminal justice system, diminished prestige, and less likelihood of holding elective office compared with their lighter counterparts. This phenomenon of “colorism” both occurs within the African American community and is expressed by outsiders, and most blacks are aware of it. Nevertheless, blacks' perceptions of discrimination, belief …
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Between 1850 and 1930, demographic upheaval in the United States was connected to reorganization of the racial order. Socially and politically recognized boundaries between groups shifted, new groups emerged, others disappeared, and notions of who belonged in which category changed. All recognized racial groups-blacks, whites, Indians, Asians, Mexicans and others-were affected. This article investigates how and why census racial classification po…
Bringing Outsiders In
For immigrants, politics can play a significant role in determining whether and how they assimilate. In Bringing Outsiders In, leading social scientists present individual cases and work toward a comparative synthesis of how immigrants affect-and are affected by-civic life on both sides of the Atlantic. Just as in the United States, large immigrant minority communities have been emerging across Europe. While these communities usually make up less…
Democracy Remixed
Immigrant political incorporation
Despite reasons to expect otherwise, immigrant political incorporation occurs more rapidly in the United States than in many Western European states. We provide evidence to support that contentious statement and reasons to explain it. Four features distinguish the United States in this context. First, both in terms of state formation and population growth, it was predicated on immigration, voluntary and otherwise, whereas European states came int…
Democracy and the Welfare State
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what w…
Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BORN OUTSIDE the United States, so that his presidency and all laws passed under it are unconstitutional? Are two out of every five Americans black? Did the crime rate rise during the first 15 years of the twenty-first century? These are questions of factual information, to which there are correct answers—respectively, no, no, and no. Knowing the right answer to each question is important for making appropriate political …
Trends
Journal Article Trends: Governance and Reform of Public Education in the United States Get access JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD, JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BRIDGET SCOTT BRIDGET SCOTT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 1, May 1998, Pages 79–120, https://doi.org/10.1086/297833 Published: 01 May 1998
Introduction and Observations
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Perspectives on Politics, the new journal sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for all political scientists and others interested in academic analyses of politics. The associate editors and I are thrilled, and a bit daunted, by the challenges of putting together a journal that reaches across and outside our discipline and seeks to draw all of its members, and others, into a conversation …
Is the significance of race declining in the political arena? Yes, and no
The significance of class is increasing in the USA, in the sense that economic inequality is rising within the black and Latino populations as well as among whites. Growing inequality is associated with increasing disparities in lived experiences. Is class also increasingly significant in political life? Survey evidence shows that the answer is yes: compared with previous decades, well-off blacks and Latinos are less strongly liberal in some poli…
There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama
For the first time in American history, the 2000 United States census allowed individuals to choose more than one race. That new policy sets up our exploration of whether and how multiracialism is entering Americans' understanding and practice of race. By analyzing briefly earlier cases of racial construction, we uncover three factors important to understanding if and how intensely a feedback effect for racial classification will be generated. Us…
Social Class in Public Schools
This article shows the pattern of socioeconomic class differences in schooling outcomes and indicates some of the causes for those differences that lie within the public realm. Those causes include “nested inequalities” across boundaries of states, school districts, schools within a district, classes within a school, and sometimes separation within a class. In addition, urban public schools demonstrate a particular set of problems that generate d…
Looking ahead
Daedalus Winter 2005 In April of 2004, the quarterly newsletter Migration News summarized the most recent data on race and ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau: “In 2000, the racial/ethnic makeup of US residents was: White, 69 percent; Hispanic and Black, 13 percent each; and Asian and other, six percent. By 2050, these percentages are projected to be: 50, 24, 15, and 13.”1For anyone who has been studying racial trends in America these 1⁄2gures …
Why the Dog Doesn't Bark
The absence of a strong leftist movement among America's poor has often been the subject of speculation by political scientists. In the essay below Jennifer Hochschild seeks to explain why poor Americans have failed to demand a redistribution of wealth, contrary to expectations based on classical and liberal political theory, psychological theories, empirical observation, and current politics. For purposes of her survey the author has divided low…
It Isn’t What We Don’t Know that Gives Us Trouble, It’s What We Know that Ain’t So
This article explores the dangers to the quality of democratic governance of those who are informed but disengaged and, especially, those who are engaged but use false ‘knowledge’. Poll data show the extent of Americans’ misinformation about, or disengagement with, climate change. The main responsibility for these problems lies with politicians, who have partisan incentives to help the disengaged become active, but also partisan incentives to kee…
Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
The number of publications arguing that the United States is not post-racial despite twice electing Barack Obama to the presidency is many orders of magnitude greater than the number of publications claiming that the United States is post-racial. In fact, it is difficult to find anyone asserting post-raciality beyond one New York Times Magazine article and a few Fox News commentators around the 2008 election. Nevertheless, attacks on the purporte…
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; rather than trying to adjudicate among them, this essay seeks to identify what is changing in the American racial order, what persists or is becoming even more entrenched, and what is likely to affect the balance between change and…
When Do People Not Protest Unfairness
Jennifer Hochschild When Do People Not Protest Unfairness? The Case of Skin Color Discrimination It was a color thing and a class thing. And for generations of black people, color and class have been inexorably tied together. —Lawrence Graham (2000) Well-to-do, fair-skinned kids in the neighborhood weren’t allowed to play with him and they regularly taunted him about his color, Jones says. . . . “That’s been a dominant force in my life,”he says. …
The Dual Agenda
Journal Article The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Weif are Policies of Civil Rights Organizations. By Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-231-10364-6) Get access Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice
Including Oneself and Including Others
To be a full member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial background, or the same religion as most citizens? What do people of different statuses believe about the criteria for inclusion? To answer these questions, the authors analyze the 2003 International Social Survey Programme survey on national identity, focusing on ten wealthy, democratic countries. They find a series of mismatches. A strong sense of being inclu…
Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter
Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race
We begin with a typology of Americans' understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has two dimensions: one running from genetic determinism to social construction, and the other from technology optimism to technology pessimism. Construing each dimension as a dichotomy enables four distinct political perspectives on the possibilities for reducing racial inequality in the United States through ge…
Lumpers or splitters
Why the Dog Doesn't Bark
The absence of a strong leftist movement among America's poor has often been the subject of speculation by political scientists. In the essay below Jennifer Hochschild seeks to explain why poor Americans have failed to demand a redistribution of wealth, contrary to expectations based on classical and liberal political theory, psychological theories, empirical observation, and current politics. For purposes of her survey the author has divided low…
What's Fair
Why There Is No Socialism in the United States Support for and Opposition to More Equality Norms of Distributive Justice and Three Domains of Life The Socializing Domain and the Principle of Equality The Economic Domain and the Principle of Differentiation The Political Domain and the Principle of Equality Alternative Patterns of Belief Ambivalence Political Orientations: Why the Dog Doesn't Bark Appendixes Demographic Characteristics of Responde…
What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
The New American Dilemma
The New American Dilemma
The New American Dilemma
Readings on Equal Education, Volume 8
Equal Education Under Law
Committees of the American Political Science Association
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Ain't No Makin' It
Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor
This article is concerned with people who so lack marketable skills and material resources that they are excluded from mainstream society, and who lack faith that they can succeed through conventional means. They are usually poor, but they are a small subset of the poor and are not necessarily poor throughout their lives. Most are excluded because the American rhetoric of equal opportunity for all is belied by political choices that deny to some …
The Politics of the Estranged Poor
Honoring Mentors of Distinction
Every few years, the Women's Caucus for Political Science (WCPS) issues a call to its members to identify people who have acted as their mentors in the process of becoming and remaining a political scientist. Everyone wins in this competition, since the only requirement for honoring a nominee is that a letter of explanation and commendation accompany the nomination. During 1992-93, the WCPS received 35 nominations from 34 members. An award ceremo…
The Political Contingency of Public Opinion, or What Shall We Make of the Declining Faith of Middle-Class African Americans
Scholars who study the connections between public opinion and the policy process, and politicians who engage in making those connections, face the same two problems. First, determining what opinion the public actually holds is much more of an interpretive than a methodological exercise. Second, designing policies to respond to that (presumed) opinion is at best an inexact art and at worst a demonstration that making the wrong moves can produce mo…
A Report on the Congressional Fellowship Program, 1992–93 and 1993–94
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Program Committee
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Facing Up to the American Dream Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
United States
Facing Up to the American Dream
1What Is the American Dream?15Ch. 2Rich and Poor African Americans39Ch. 3What's All the Fuss About?: Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs about the American Dream55Ch. 4Succeeding More and Under the Spell: Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream72Ch. 5Beliefs about One's Own Life91Ch. 6Beliefs about Others122Ch. 7Competitive Success and Collective Well being141Ch. 8Remaining under the Spell157Ch. 9With One Part of Themselves They Actual…
Social Policy in the United States
Achieving Racial Balance
Divided by Color
Journal Article Divided by Colon Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals Get access Divided by Colon Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals by Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996. 393 pp. $27.50. Jennifer Hochschild Jennifer Hochschild Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue 3, Fall 1997, Pages 497–498, ht…
Practical Politics and Voice and Equality
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Is School Desegregation Still a Viable Policy Option
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The Dual Agenda
Journal Article The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Weif are Policies of Civil Rights Organizations. By Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-231-10364-6) Get access Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
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