Davin L Phoenix
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davin L Phoenix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Phoenix |
| SIGNATURE | PHOENIX D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2594-5898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Conspiracy thinking in American politics
Conspiratorial thinking is an indelible part of American politics; indeed, conspiracy theories proliferated in North America even before the founding of the United States. A current headwind of trends appears to facilitate a surge in conspiratorial thinking, including the increased spread and accessibility of misinformation, steady declines in public trust in authority figures, and an increasingly polarized electorate marked by mutual partisan an…
Emotional representation: Identifying the characteristics and consequences of elected officials mirroring the emotions of their constituents
This study examines which elected officials are most likely to mirror their constituents' emotions in public outreach—a concept we term emotional representation. We also analyze the significance of emotional representation for the targeted group. To accomplish these goals, we examine the degree to which members of Congress mirrored Black people's documented increase in expressions of anger following the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 202…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Cognitive decline and political leadership
The cognitive deterioration of politicians is a critical emerging issue. As professions including law and medicine develop and implement cognitive assessments, their insights may inform the proper strategy within politics. The aging, lifetime-appointed judiciary raises legal and administrative questions of such assessments, while testing of older physicians experiencing cognitive decline provides real-life examples of implementation. In politics,…
Clarifying the “People Like Me: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior
Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study of political behavior. However, the reference group that respondents view as “people like me” is not always immediately clear. This limits our ability to infer how efficacy informs political participation. We propose a specific concept and operationalization of racial group efficacy, and we…
Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy
Contemporary politics appears to be characterized by an escalating wave of ideological, ethnic, religious, and national tensions, which play out across legislative chambers, neighborhood streets, and social media pages. Yet frequently these pervasive conflicts are punctured by moments of expression of genuine intergroup solidarity, be it white people joining in calls for racial justice, or straight people urging legislators to protect LGBTQ right…
Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation
Drawing upon theories of group based emotion, group based efficacy and appraisal, I propose a model of racial emotion regulation to explain variations in how Black and White Americans respond emotionally and behaviorally to policy opportunity cues. I test the major claims of this model with data from an original experiment and national survey. Findings from the studies indicate that expressions of hope carry a strong and consistent mobilizing eff…
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The Ties that Bind: Assessing the Effects of Political and Racial Church Homogeneity on Asian American Political Participation
Research consistently emphasizes the importance of religious institutions for influencing political action among Asian Americans. The social capital literature offers two theoretical explanations for why churches increase political activity: bridging capital between different groups and bonding capital among similar groups. The latter argues that individuals who attend racially homogeneous churches are more participatory. This paper expands on th…
The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics
Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality. Drawing on survey data from the last forty years, experiments, and rhetoric analysis, Phoenix finds that - from Reagan to Trump - black Americans r…
Framing police and protesters: Assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO intensified debates on policing in Black and minority communities and served as a major catalyst for protest movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM). We assess the degree to which the volume and tone of news media coverage of policing and protests changed in the post-Ferguson environment. We also examine the impact of this volume and framing of news coverage on the legislative activity on polic…
From emotion to action among Asian Americans: Assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump
The prevalence of anti-Asian and anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout the 2016 election season provides an opportunity to examine the factors shaping Asian Americans’ emotional responses to a threatening political environment. Comparing interracial trends in emotional expressions and political behavior in the 2016 Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS), we find Asian Americans expressing fear on par with other minority groups, while…
Race, Religion, and Anti-Poverty Policy Attitudes
Using the 2008 National Politics Study, the present study indicates that while African Americans are more likely than whites to hear sermons about poverty and other political issues, hearing such sermons more consistently associates with support for anti-poverty government programs among non-Hispanic whites than among both African Americans and Hispanics. The racially/ethnically marginalized status of blacks and Hispanics may contribute to these …
Racial Disenfranchisement
Inquiries into racial disenfranchisement offer a crucial lens through which to critically assess the capacity of the US political system to sufficiently respond to the demands of an increasingly diverse society. Various social science disciplines have employed a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies to explore the institutional, cultural, and psychological antecedents of disenfranchisement, as well as strategies to achieve racial equi…
The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics
Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality. Drawing on survey data from the last forty years, experiments, and rhetoric analysis, Phoenix finds that - from Reagan to Trump - black Americans r…
From emotion to action among Asian Americans: Assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump
The prevalence of anti-Asian and anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout the 2016 election season provides an opportunity to examine the factors shaping Asian Americans’ emotional responses to a threatening political environment. Comparing interracial trends in emotional expressions and political behavior in the 2016 Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS), we find Asian Americans expressing fear on par with other minority groups, while…
Race, Religion, and Anti-Poverty Policy Attitudes
Using the 2008 National Politics Study, the present study indicates that while African Americans are more likely than whites to hear sermons about poverty and other political issues, hearing such sermons more consistently associates with support for anti-poverty government programs among non-Hispanic whites than among both African Americans and Hispanics. The racially/ethnically marginalized status of blacks and Hispanics may contribute to these …
Framing police and protesters: Assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO intensified debates on policing in Black and minority communities and served as a major catalyst for protest movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM). We assess the degree to which the volume and tone of news media coverage of policing and protests changed in the post-Ferguson environment. We also examine the impact of this volume and framing of news coverage on the legislative activity on polic…
Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation
Drawing upon theories of group based emotion, group based efficacy and appraisal, I propose a model of racial emotion regulation to explain variations in how Black and White Americans respond emotionally and behaviorally to policy opportunity cues. I test the major claims of this model with data from an original experiment and national survey. Findings from the studies indicate that expressions of hope carry a strong and consistent mobilizing eff…
Clarifying the “People Like Me: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior
Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study of political behavior. However, the reference group that respondents view as “people like me” is not always immediately clear. This limits our ability to infer how efficacy informs political participation. We propose a specific concept and operationalization of racial group efficacy, and we…
The Ties that Bind: Assessing the Effects of Political and Racial Church Homogeneity on Asian American Political Participation
Research consistently emphasizes the importance of religious institutions for influencing political action among Asian Americans. The social capital literature offers two theoretical explanations for why churches increase political activity: bridging capital between different groups and bonding capital among similar groups. The latter argues that individuals who attend racially homogeneous churches are more participatory. This paper expands on th…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Racial Disenfranchisement
Inquiries into racial disenfranchisement offer a crucial lens through which to critically assess the capacity of the US political system to sufficiently respond to the demands of an increasingly diverse society. Various social science disciplines have employed a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies to explore the institutional, cultural, and psychological antecedents of disenfranchisement, as well as strategies to achieve racial equi…
Race, Religion, and Anti-Poverty Policy Attitudes
Using the 2008 National Politics Study, the present study indicates that while African Americans are more likely than whites to hear sermons about poverty and other political issues, hearing such sermons more consistently associates with support for anti-poverty government programs among non-Hispanic whites than among both African Americans and Hispanics. The racially/ethnically marginalized status of blacks and Hispanics may contribute to these …
Framing police and protesters: Assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO intensified debates on policing in Black and minority communities and served as a major catalyst for protest movements such as Black Lives Matter (BLM). We assess the degree to which the volume and tone of news media coverage of policing and protests changed in the post-Ferguson environment. We also examine the impact of this volume and framing of news coverage on the legislative activity on polic…
From emotion to action among Asian Americans: Assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump
The prevalence of anti-Asian and anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout the 2016 election season provides an opportunity to examine the factors shaping Asian Americans’ emotional responses to a threatening political environment. Comparing interracial trends in emotional expressions and political behavior in the 2016 Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS), we find Asian Americans expressing fear on par with other minority groups, while…
The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics
Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book offers a new conceptualization of anger as a political resource that mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality. Drawing on survey data from the last forty years, experiments, and rhetoric analysis, Phoenix finds that - from Reagan to Trump - black Americans r…
Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on black political participation
Drawing upon theories of group based emotion, group based efficacy and appraisal, I propose a model of racial emotion regulation to explain variations in how Black and White Americans respond emotionally and behaviorally to policy opportunity cues. I test the major claims of this model with data from an original experiment and national survey. Findings from the studies indicate that expressions of hope carry a strong and consistent mobilizing eff…
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Ties that Bind: Assessing the Effects of Political and Racial Church Homogeneity on Asian American Political Participation
Research consistently emphasizes the importance of religious institutions for influencing political action among Asian Americans. The social capital literature offers two theoretical explanations for why churches increase political activity: bridging capital between different groups and bonding capital among similar groups. The latter argues that individuals who attend racially homogeneous churches are more participatory. This paper expands on th…
Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy
Contemporary politics appears to be characterized by an escalating wave of ideological, ethnic, religious, and national tensions, which play out across legislative chambers, neighborhood streets, and social media pages. Yet frequently these pervasive conflicts are punctured by moments of expression of genuine intergroup solidarity, be it white people joining in calls for racial justice, or straight people urging legislators to protect LGBTQ right…
Cognitive decline and political leadership
The cognitive deterioration of politicians is a critical emerging issue. As professions including law and medicine develop and implement cognitive assessments, their insights may inform the proper strategy within politics. The aging, lifetime-appointed judiciary raises legal and administrative questions of such assessments, while testing of older physicians experiencing cognitive decline provides real-life examples of implementation. In politics,…
Clarifying the “People Like Me: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior
Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study of political behavior. However, the reference group that respondents view as “people like me” is not always immediately clear. This limits our ability to infer how efficacy informs political participation. We propose a specific concept and operationalization of racial group efficacy, and we…
Emotional representation: Identifying the characteristics and consequences of elected officials mirroring the emotions of their constituents
This study examines which elected officials are most likely to mirror their constituents' emotions in public outreach—a concept we term emotional representation. We also analyze the significance of emotional representation for the targeted group. To accomplish these goals, we examine the degree to which members of Congress mirrored Black people's documented increase in expressions of anger following the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 202…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Conspiracy thinking in American politics
Conspiratorial thinking is an indelible part of American politics; indeed, conspiracy theories proliferated in North America even before the founding of the United States. A current headwind of trends appears to facilitate a surge in conspiratorial thinking, including the increased spread and accessibility of misinformation, steady declines in public trust in authority figures, and an increasingly polarized electorate marked by mutual partisan an…
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