Emily A West
Biographic Data
| ID | 1288134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily A West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily A |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1309-6278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Partisan Social Norms, Racial Attitudes and Civic Discourse
How Political Representation Empowers Women
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism
In 2020, support for Joe Biden among Latina/o/x voters was 8 percentage points lower than support for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the largest drop of any racial/ethnic group. While much media and academic attention has focused on understanding the impact of misinformation, COVID-19 concerns, and racial animus on Latino voters in 2020, we take a step back and clarify the demographic and core ideological characteristics of Latino voters who voted for …
Old Age and American Slavery, by David Stefan Doddington
How Does the Rising Number of Women in the U.S. Congress Change Deliberation? Evidence from House Committee Hearings
The rising number of women in Congress changes deliberation. Using committee hearing transcripts from 1995 to 2017, we analyze how the gender composition of committees affects group dynamics in committee hearings. While we find limited evidence that increasing proportions of women affects women’s participation, we find that discussion norms within committees change significantly in the presence of more women. Namely, interruptions decrease when t…
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting
This study uses a novel experimental approach to isolate “expressive” or “noninstrumental” payoffs to voting along identity lines, separating them from “substantive” motivations. Applying social identity theory to the case of gender in U.S. elections, the study answers the question: Do some men and women receive a purely expressive payoff from preferring same‐gender candidates? A series of experiments test whether a purely expressive payoff from …
Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization
Repressed productive potential and revolt: Insights from an insurgency in Burundi
The relationship between participation in revolt and individuals' economic conditions is among the most debated in political science. While conventional economic theory suggests that those who face the poorest economic prospects are most inclined to fight, extant evidence is decidedly mixed. We address this puzzling variation by analyzing the interplay between macro-structural conditions and individuals' micro-level circumstances. Under condition…
Discrimination in public accommodations
Despite widespread belief in the efficacy of statutes prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, including protections for the use of privately provided yet publicly available services such as transportation, hotels, and restaurants, we lack causal estimates of the impacts of these statutes on the well-being of those they are designed to protect. We leverage the US Supreme Court's 1883 strike of the public accommodations provisions in t…
Descriptive Representation and Political Efficacy: Evidence from Obama and Clinton
Existing theory suggests that individuals who share their identity with elected officials should have more positive attitudes toward government. However, the effect has not been well identified among African Americans, and the hypothesis is underexplored with respect to women. Thus, I examine the effects of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s successes on African American and female political efficacy, using Iowa Electronic Markets contract prices…
The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861
Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization
Descriptive Representation and Political Efficacy: Evidence from Obama and Clinton
Existing theory suggests that individuals who share their identity with elected officials should have more positive attitudes toward government. However, the effect has not been well identified among African Americans, and the hypothesis is underexplored with respect to women. Thus, I examine the effects of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s successes on African American and female political efficacy, using Iowa Electronic Markets contract prices…
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism
In 2020, support for Joe Biden among Latina/o/x voters was 8 percentage points lower than support for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the largest drop of any racial/ethnic group. While much media and academic attention has focused on understanding the impact of misinformation, COVID-19 concerns, and racial animus on Latino voters in 2020, we take a step back and clarify the demographic and core ideological characteristics of Latino voters who voted for …
How Does the Rising Number of Women in the U.S. Congress Change Deliberation? Evidence from House Committee Hearings
The rising number of women in Congress changes deliberation. Using committee hearing transcripts from 1995 to 2017, we analyze how the gender composition of committees affects group dynamics in committee hearings. While we find limited evidence that increasing proportions of women affects women’s participation, we find that discussion norms within committees change significantly in the presence of more women. Namely, interruptions decrease when t…
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting
This study uses a novel experimental approach to isolate “expressive” or “noninstrumental” payoffs to voting along identity lines, separating them from “substantive” motivations. Applying social identity theory to the case of gender in U.S. elections, the study answers the question: Do some men and women receive a purely expressive payoff from preferring same‐gender candidates? A series of experiments test whether a purely expressive payoff from …
Repressed productive potential and revolt: Insights from an insurgency in Burundi
The relationship between participation in revolt and individuals' economic conditions is among the most debated in political science. While conventional economic theory suggests that those who face the poorest economic prospects are most inclined to fight, extant evidence is decidedly mixed. We address this puzzling variation by analyzing the interplay between macro-structural conditions and individuals' micro-level circumstances. Under condition…
How Political Representation Empowers Women
The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861
Descriptive Representation and Political Efficacy: Evidence from Obama and Clinton
Existing theory suggests that individuals who share their identity with elected officials should have more positive attitudes toward government. However, the effect has not been well identified among African Americans, and the hypothesis is underexplored with respect to women. Thus, I examine the effects of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s successes on African American and female political efficacy, using Iowa Electronic Markets contract prices…
Discrimination in public accommodations
Despite widespread belief in the efficacy of statutes prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, including protections for the use of privately provided yet publicly available services such as transportation, hotels, and restaurants, we lack causal estimates of the impacts of these statutes on the well-being of those they are designed to protect. We leverage the US Supreme Court's 1883 strike of the public accommodations provisions in t…
Repressed productive potential and revolt: Insights from an insurgency in Burundi
The relationship between participation in revolt and individuals' economic conditions is among the most debated in political science. While conventional economic theory suggests that those who face the poorest economic prospects are most inclined to fight, extant evidence is decidedly mixed. We address this puzzling variation by analyzing the interplay between macro-structural conditions and individuals' micro-level circumstances. Under condition…
How Does the Rising Number of Women in the U.S. Congress Change Deliberation? Evidence from House Committee Hearings
The rising number of women in Congress changes deliberation. Using committee hearing transcripts from 1995 to 2017, we analyze how the gender composition of committees affects group dynamics in committee hearings. While we find limited evidence that increasing proportions of women affects women’s participation, we find that discussion norms within committees change significantly in the presence of more women. Namely, interruptions decrease when t…
Ingroup Bias, Partisanship, and Gendered Voting
This study uses a novel experimental approach to isolate “expressive” or “noninstrumental” payoffs to voting along identity lines, separating them from “substantive” motivations. Applying social identity theory to the case of gender in U.S. elections, the study answers the question: Do some men and women receive a purely expressive payoff from preferring same‐gender candidates? A series of experiments test whether a purely expressive payoff from …
Partisanship as a Social Identity: Implications for Polarization
Old Age and American Slavery, by David Stefan Doddington
How Political Representation Empowers Women
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism
In 2020, support for Joe Biden among Latina/o/x voters was 8 percentage points lower than support for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the largest drop of any racial/ethnic group. While much media and academic attention has focused on understanding the impact of misinformation, COVID-19 concerns, and racial animus on Latino voters in 2020, we take a step back and clarify the demographic and core ideological characteristics of Latino voters who voted for …
Partisan Social Norms, Racial Attitudes and Civic Discourse
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)