Valerie Martinez-Ebers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 800606 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Valerie Martinez-Ebers |
| NOMBRES | Valerie |
| APELLIDO | Martinez-Ebers |
| FIRMA | MARTINEZ-EBERS V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9695-0291 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 279 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Native American Political Trust
Research on Native Americans’ trust in both the U.S. federal and tribal governments is limited. While existing studies suggest Native Americans have lower trust in the federal government and higher trust in tribal governments, they often overlook the individual factors shaping this trust especially as many Native Americans no longer live on or near reservations. Using data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Political Survey, this study explo…
News of Converging Crises
Drawing on theories covering media differentiation, delegitimating, and journalistic professionalism, we show FOX is substantially more likely than CNN or MSNBC to increase its coverage frequency of race stories in response to topical coverage by its competitors. CNN reduces its coverage frequency of these race stories in response to FOX (and MSNBC follows this same general pattern). By contrast, all three networks reinforce each other’s COVID co…
From public engagement to civically engaged research
The Impact of Incumbent Race/Ethnicity and Challenger Experience on White Evaluations of Competency and Integrity
Does race/ethnicity or qualifications matter more in White evaluations of U.S. House Democratic Members of Congress (MC) and their opposing Republican candidates? This study examines White perceptions of competence and integrity as a function of the race/ethnicity of the Democratic MC and the prior experience of the Republican challenger utilizing the 2010 CCES “Common Content” survey, after controlling for the propensity to evaluate the perceive…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Attitudes Regarding the Government's Role in Addressing Economic Inequality
We examine factors that explain differences in opinions among Asian Americans and Latinos regarding the government's responsibility in addressing economic inequality. We utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variations in attitudes about the role the government should play in addressing the differences in income between people with high and low incomes. We use ordered logit models to assess 2020 Collaborative Multira…
Lethal Engagement
The Trump Effect
The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether these rallies and Trump’s rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We measured the number of reported white-supremacist propaganda, anti-Semitic incidents, and extremist behaviors that occurred both leading up to and directly following these campaign events. We contend that Trump’s rhetoric and rallies increased the perceived threat facing white Amer…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
Bringing People Together
Many U.S. cities pursue a “human relations” strategy in response to racial and ethnic group conflict. Reflective of Common Ingroup Identity theory, human relations practitioners emphasize a superordinate community identity among residents from different groups for the purpose of “bringing people together” in an effort to improve intergroup relations. Practitioners also encourage intergroup contact to promote positive change in attitudes. Herein, …
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
Eres Amigo o Enemigo? Contextual Determinants of Latinos’ Perceived Competition with African-Americans
Prior research has examined how racial and socioeconomic environments influence the racial attitudes of Whites and Blacks. We extend this line of research to explore how local context influences Latinos’ perceived competition with African-Americans. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey and a newly appended contextual data set. We find that having more Black neighbors heightens Latinos’ perceived competition with Blacks, but only when Latinos ar…
Social Protest and Policy Attitudes
Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions, we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine whether temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However,…
The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos
Much of the protest literature has examined the policy consequences of social protests. Few studies focus on the effect of social protests on public opinion. We examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on the saliency of immigration among Latinos. The 2006 Latino National Survey was in the field before and after the protests began, creating a natural experiment. Using these data, we discover protests increased Latinos’ perception of un…
How PGI came about
We've been asked to give a bit of background as to how and why Politics, Groups, and Identities (PGI) came into being. The story begins in 2005 with the suggestion by former executive director of t
The determinants and political consequences of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition
Tensions between Latinos may undermine support for collective group interests. In this paper, we, first, examine the determinants of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition. We expected perceived intra-group competition to be shaped by Latinos' (1) personal economic status, (2) acculturation, (3) experiences with discrimination from co-ethnic members, (4) pan-ethnic identity, and (5) neighborhood conditions. Second, we explore how perceived co…
Latinos in the New Millennium
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion a…
Should They Dance with the One Who Brung 'Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election
Although Latinos have grown substantially as a percent of the American population to now comprise the largest ethnic-racial minority group in the U.S., whether or not this national population growth can translate into direct political influence in presidential elections has always been unclear (DeSipio 1996; Fraga and Ramírez 2003–04). At least since the 1988 election, however, scholars of Latino politics have argued that Latino voters could serv…
Gender and Ethnicity
In this article we examine the patterns of gendered representation and related legislative advocacy within Latino delegations to four state legislatures in the Southwest. Most agree that one of the most significant changes in American politics in the post-civil rights era is the increasing election of women and people of color, but there is less agreement about the magnitude, consistency, and impact of this representation. Moreover, little is kno…
Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa
Since the 1970s, Latino politics research has evolved, alternately responding to real-world political events and demographic changes, embracing new and emerging trends in the broader discipline, and offering new insights of its own that contribute to the development of political science. In so doing, there have emerged both an intellectual foundation and a growing body of empirical results, each of which challenges long-held theories and findings…
Civic Socialization in Public and Fundamentalist Schools
Objective. Critics of schools governed by fundamentalist religions are concerned that these schools will not socialize students to the attitudes and values appropriate for citizens of a pluralistic liberal democracy. Among these values are support for democratic norms, political tolerance, moral reasoning and autonomy, duty to community, and acceptance of nontraditional lifestyles. This article examines the empirical basis for the critics' concer…
The Politics of Latino Education
This paper investigates the determinants and consequences of Latino political representation in the field of K-12 education. The first task is to examine the association between Latino population and the Latino presence on school boards. We then investigate if Latino representation is affected by the electoral structure of school boards, as scholars have reached differing conclusions on whether at-large and ward systems hinder or enhance minority…
Latino Interests in Education, Health, and Criminal Justice Policy
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An Update on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in Political Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Using Monetary Incentives With Hard-to-Reach Populations in Panel Surveys
Journal Article USING MONETARY INCENTIVES WITH HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS IN PANEL SURVEYS Get access Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers (Ph.D. Ohio State University 1990) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Education Reform at the University of North Texas. Her major research interests focus on social welfare policies for children and the elderly.…
Social Protest and Policy Attitudes
Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions, we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine whether temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However,…
The Politics of Latino Education
This paper investigates the determinants and consequences of Latino political representation in the field of K-12 education. The first task is to examine the association between Latino population and the Latino presence on school boards. We then investigate if Latino representation is affected by the electoral structure of school boards, as scholars have reached differing conclusions on whether at-large and ward systems hinder or enhance minority…
Gender and Ethnicity
In this article we examine the patterns of gendered representation and related legislative advocacy within Latino delegations to four state legislatures in the Southwest. Most agree that one of the most significant changes in American politics in the post-civil rights era is the increasing election of women and people of color, but there is less agreement about the magnitude, consistency, and impact of this representation. Moreover, little is kno…
Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa
Since the 1970s, Latino politics research has evolved, alternately responding to real-world political events and demographic changes, embracing new and emerging trends in the broader discipline, and offering new insights of its own that contribute to the development of political science. In so doing, there have emerged both an intellectual foundation and a growing body of empirical results, each of which challenges long-held theories and findings…
The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos
Much of the protest literature has examined the policy consequences of social protests. Few studies focus on the effect of social protests on public opinion. We examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on the saliency of immigration among Latinos. The 2006 Latino National Survey was in the field before and after the protests began, creating a natural experiment. Using these data, we discover protests increased Latinos’ perception of un…
Eres Amigo o Enemigo? Contextual Determinants of Latinos’ Perceived Competition with African-Americans
Prior research has examined how racial and socioeconomic environments influence the racial attitudes of Whites and Blacks. We extend this line of research to explore how local context influences Latinos’ perceived competition with African-Americans. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey and a newly appended contextual data set. We find that having more Black neighbors heightens Latinos’ perceived competition with Blacks, but only when Latinos ar…
Should They Dance with the One Who Brung 'Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election
Although Latinos have grown substantially as a percent of the American population to now comprise the largest ethnic-racial minority group in the U.S., whether or not this national population growth can translate into direct political influence in presidential elections has always been unclear (DeSipio 1996; Fraga and Ramírez 2003–04). At least since the 1988 election, however, scholars of Latino politics have argued that Latino voters could serv…
Lethal Engagement
The determinants and political consequences of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition
Tensions between Latinos may undermine support for collective group interests. In this paper, we, first, examine the determinants of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition. We expected perceived intra-group competition to be shaped by Latinos' (1) personal economic status, (2) acculturation, (3) experiences with discrimination from co-ethnic members, (4) pan-ethnic identity, and (5) neighborhood conditions. Second, we explore how perceived co…
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
Using Monetary Incentives With Hard-to-Reach Populations in Panel Surveys
Journal Article USING MONETARY INCENTIVES WITH HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS IN PANEL SURVEYS Get access Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers (Ph.D. Ohio State University 1990) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Education Reform at the University of North Texas. Her major research interests focus on social welfare policies for children and the elderly.…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
The Trump Effect
The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether these rallies and Trump’s rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We measured the number of reported white-supremacist propaganda, anti-Semitic incidents, and extremist behaviors that occurred both leading up to and directly following these campaign events. We contend that Trump’s rhetoric and rallies increased the perceived threat facing white Amer…
Civic Socialization in Public and Fundamentalist Schools
Objective. Critics of schools governed by fundamentalist religions are concerned that these schools will not socialize students to the attitudes and values appropriate for citizens of a pluralistic liberal democracy. Among these values are support for democratic norms, political tolerance, moral reasoning and autonomy, duty to community, and acceptance of nontraditional lifestyles. This article examines the empirical basis for the critics' concer…
Latino Interests in Education, Health, and Criminal Justice Policy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Update on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in Political Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Attitudes Regarding the Government's Role in Addressing Economic Inequality
We examine factors that explain differences in opinions among Asian Americans and Latinos regarding the government's responsibility in addressing economic inequality. We utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variations in attitudes about the role the government should play in addressing the differences in income between people with high and low incomes. We use ordered logit models to assess 2020 Collaborative Multira…
Bringing People Together
Many U.S. cities pursue a “human relations” strategy in response to racial and ethnic group conflict. Reflective of Common Ingroup Identity theory, human relations practitioners emphasize a superordinate community identity among residents from different groups for the purpose of “bringing people together” in an effort to improve intergroup relations. Practitioners also encourage intergroup contact to promote positive change in attitudes. Herein, …
How PGI came about
We've been asked to give a bit of background as to how and why Politics, Groups, and Identities (PGI) came into being. The story begins in 2005 with the suggestion by former executive director of t
Using Monetary Incentives With Hard-to-Reach Populations in Panel Surveys
Journal Article USING MONETARY INCENTIVES WITH HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS IN PANEL SURVEYS Get access Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers Valerie Martinez-Ebers (Ph.D. Ohio State University 1990) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Education Reform at the University of North Texas. Her major research interests focus on social welfare policies for children and the elderly.…
Latino Interests in Education, Health, and Criminal Justice Policy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Update on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in Political Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Civic Socialization in Public and Fundamentalist Schools
Objective. Critics of schools governed by fundamentalist religions are concerned that these schools will not socialize students to the attitudes and values appropriate for citizens of a pluralistic liberal democracy. Among these values are support for democratic norms, political tolerance, moral reasoning and autonomy, duty to community, and acceptance of nontraditional lifestyles. This article examines the empirical basis for the critics' concer…
The Politics of Latino Education
This paper investigates the determinants and consequences of Latino political representation in the field of K-12 education. The first task is to examine the association between Latino population and the Latino presence on school boards. We then investigate if Latino representation is affected by the electoral structure of school boards, as scholars have reached differing conclusions on whether at-large and ward systems hinder or enhance minority…
Gender and Ethnicity
In this article we examine the patterns of gendered representation and related legislative advocacy within Latino delegations to four state legislatures in the Southwest. Most agree that one of the most significant changes in American politics in the post-civil rights era is the increasing election of women and people of color, but there is less agreement about the magnitude, consistency, and impact of this representation. Moreover, little is kno…
Su Casa Es Nuestra Casa
Since the 1970s, Latino politics research has evolved, alternately responding to real-world political events and demographic changes, embracing new and emerging trends in the broader discipline, and offering new insights of its own that contribute to the development of political science. In so doing, there have emerged both an intellectual foundation and a growing body of empirical results, each of which challenges long-held theories and findings…
Should They Dance with the One Who Brung 'Em?” Latinos and the 2008 Presidential Election
Although Latinos have grown substantially as a percent of the American population to now comprise the largest ethnic-racial minority group in the U.S., whether or not this national population growth can translate into direct political influence in presidential elections has always been unclear (DeSipio 1996; Fraga and Ramírez 2003–04). At least since the 1988 election, however, scholars of Latino politics have argued that Latino voters could serv…
Latinos in the New Millennium
Latinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion a…
How PGI came about
We've been asked to give a bit of background as to how and why Politics, Groups, and Identities (PGI) came into being. The story begins in 2005 with the suggestion by former executive director of t
The determinants and political consequences of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition
Tensions between Latinos may undermine support for collective group interests. In this paper, we, first, examine the determinants of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition. We expected perceived intra-group competition to be shaped by Latinos' (1) personal economic status, (2) acculturation, (3) experiences with discrimination from co-ethnic members, (4) pan-ethnic identity, and (5) neighborhood conditions. Second, we explore how perceived co…
The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos
Much of the protest literature has examined the policy consequences of social protests. Few studies focus on the effect of social protests on public opinion. We examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on the saliency of immigration among Latinos. The 2006 Latino National Survey was in the field before and after the protests began, creating a natural experiment. Using these data, we discover protests increased Latinos’ perception of un…
Social Protest and Policy Attitudes
Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions, we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine whether temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However,…
Eres Amigo o Enemigo? Contextual Determinants of Latinos’ Perceived Competition with African-Americans
Prior research has examined how racial and socioeconomic environments influence the racial attitudes of Whites and Blacks. We extend this line of research to explore how local context influences Latinos’ perceived competition with African-Americans. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey and a newly appended contextual data set. We find that having more Black neighbors heightens Latinos’ perceived competition with Blacks, but only when Latinos ar…
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
Bringing People Together
Many U.S. cities pursue a “human relations” strategy in response to racial and ethnic group conflict. Reflective of Common Ingroup Identity theory, human relations practitioners emphasize a superordinate community identity among residents from different groups for the purpose of “bringing people together” in an effort to improve intergroup relations. Practitioners also encourage intergroup contact to promote positive change in attitudes. Herein, …
The Trump Effect
The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether these rallies and Trump’s rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We measured the number of reported white-supremacist propaganda, anti-Semitic incidents, and extremist behaviors that occurred both leading up to and directly following these campaign events. We contend that Trump’s rhetoric and rallies increased the perceived threat facing white Amer…
Lethal Engagement
From public engagement to civically engaged research
The Impact of Incumbent Race/Ethnicity and Challenger Experience on White Evaluations of Competency and Integrity
Does race/ethnicity or qualifications matter more in White evaluations of U.S. House Democratic Members of Congress (MC) and their opposing Republican candidates? This study examines White perceptions of competence and integrity as a function of the race/ethnicity of the Democratic MC and the prior experience of the Republican challenger utilizing the 2010 CCES “Common Content” survey, after controlling for the propensity to evaluate the perceive…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Attitudes Regarding the Government's Role in Addressing Economic Inequality
We examine factors that explain differences in opinions among Asian Americans and Latinos regarding the government's responsibility in addressing economic inequality. We utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variations in attitudes about the role the government should play in addressing the differences in income between people with high and low incomes. We use ordered logit models to assess 2020 Collaborative Multira…
Native American Political Trust
Research on Native Americans’ trust in both the U.S. federal and tribal governments is limited. While existing studies suggest Native Americans have lower trust in the federal government and higher trust in tribal governments, they often overlook the individual factors shaping this trust especially as many Native Americans no longer live on or near reservations. Using data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Political Survey, this study explo…
News of Converging Crises
Drawing on theories covering media differentiation, delegitimating, and journalistic professionalism, we show FOX is substantially more likely than CNN or MSNBC to increase its coverage frequency of race stories in response to topical coverage by its competitors. CNN reduces its coverage frequency of these race stories in response to FOX (and MSNBC follows this same general pattern). By contrast, all three networks reinforce each other’s COVID co…
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