Alan N Yan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1069503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan N Yan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan N |
| FAMILY NAME | Yan |
| SIGNATURE | YAN A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7414-3563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Minimal Effects of Union Membership on Political Behavior
What is the source of labor unions’ power? A large literature argues that union membership powerfully affects political behavior, in turn making unions an influential interest group. However, union members may not receive, may ignore, and may deprioritize their union’s political messages. Previous research faced empirical challenges with causal inference, limited sample sizes, and limited outcomes. I marshal data from 14 panel surveys from 1956 t…
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
Who gets to "speak up" in politics? Whose voices are silenced? We conducted two field experiments to understand how harassment shapes the everyday experiences of politics for men and women in the United States today. We randomized the names campaign volunteers used to text supporters reminders to participate in a protest and call their representatives. We find that female-named volunteers receive more offensive, silencing, and withdrawal response…
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy
A majority of Americans spend a substantial amount of time at work where they have little to no say over many issues-a phenomenon that philosophers have likened to a "private government" that resembles a dictatorship. Is this because Americans are indifferent to or even prefer to work for firms that resemble dictatorships? To answer this question, we field a conjoint experiment on a nationally-representative sample of Americans to isolate public …
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
Who gets to "speak up" in politics? Whose voices are silenced? We conducted two field experiments to understand how harassment shapes the everyday experiences of politics for men and women in the United States today. We randomized the names campaign volunteers used to text supporters reminders to participate in a protest and call their representatives. We find that female-named volunteers receive more offensive, silencing, and withdrawal response…
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy
A majority of Americans spend a substantial amount of time at work where they have little to no say over many issues-a phenomenon that philosophers have likened to a "private government" that resembles a dictatorship. Is this because Americans are indifferent to or even prefer to work for firms that resemble dictatorships? To answer this question, we field a conjoint experiment on a nationally-representative sample of Americans to isolate public …
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
Who gets to "speak up" in politics? Whose voices are silenced? We conducted two field experiments to understand how harassment shapes the everyday experiences of politics for men and women in the United States today. We randomized the names campaign volunteers used to text supporters reminders to participate in a protest and call their representatives. We find that female-named volunteers receive more offensive, silencing, and withdrawal response…
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy
A majority of Americans spend a substantial amount of time at work where they have little to no say over many issues-a phenomenon that philosophers have likened to a "private government" that resembles a dictatorship. Is this because Americans are indifferent to or even prefer to work for firms that resemble dictatorships? To answer this question, we field a conjoint experiment on a nationally-representative sample of Americans to isolate public …
The Minimal Effects of Union Membership on Political Behavior
What is the source of labor unions’ power? A large literature argues that union membership powerfully affects political behavior, in turn making unions an influential interest group. However, union members may not receive, may ignore, and may deprioritize their union’s political messages. Previous research faced empirical challenges with causal inference, limited sample sizes, and limited outcomes. I marshal data from 14 panel surveys from 1956 t…
Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Corporate governance (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Democratic governance (1 works) · Democratization (1 works) · Dictatorship (1 works)