Stephanie Ternullo
Biographic Data
| ID | 162256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Ternullo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Ternullo |
| SIGNATURE | TERNULLO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4079-299X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt
Opinion Change in Nonpartisan Contexts: The Case of Residential Zoning Reform
How do voters form policy preferences in nonpartisan contexts? This paper answers this question through the case of residential zoning, a key policy domain of largely nonpartisan local governments. Drawing on fieldwork during a residential zoning initiative in Menlo Park, CA, I show how a local campaign shaped residents’ opinions by providing them with both ideological information and nonpartisan group cues. I then show that key components of thi…
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
The contemporary field of American political behavior lacks a methodological tradition of in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. In this article, we illustrate the causes and consequences of this gap and argue for a renewal of methodological pluralism. First, we situate the current dearth of qualitative approaches within two key methodological debates during the behavioral turn in political science, showing that scholars initially embrac…
The Demise of Organized Labor and the Rise of Postindustrial Populism
Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party
What role did urban machines play in national politics during the New Deal? To what extent did they serve as facilitators in a local-national patronage system, converting the flow of federal funds into their cities into votes for federal Democratic candidates? To answer these questions, we bring together data on urban machines and work relief spending, the New Deal programs that received the most public and political scorn for their supposed patr…
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future
How does the moral calculus of gentrification change for self-conscious newcomers in neighborhoods with a reputation deemed unworthy of preserving? In pointing to a set of practices distinct from 'pioneering' accounts of gentrification, Brown-Saracino (2007) identified social preservationists as figures who seek to preserve authentic community and the marginalized old-timers who embody it. Using the deviant case of Bridgeport-a historically White…
How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago
Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary studies of spatial inequality rarely measure politics directly. In this paper, we introduce political dynasties as a way of integrating political economy approaches with ecological theory to better understand the political construction of urban spatial inequality. To do so, we examine the case of political d…
Place-Based Partisanship: How Place (Re)produces Americans' Partisan Attachments
How does place inform Americans’ partisan attachments? This article takes up this question by drawing on four rounds of interviews with residents across two midwestern cities that share several demographic characteristics but have voted differently in presidential elections for decades. These cases pose a puzzle to existing scholarship, which often argues that place politics is rooted in local structural characteristics—economics and demographics…
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–1940
Under what conditions do means-tested programs increase beneficiaries’ political participation? Recent scholarship has begun to shed light on this question through a series of causal studies of Medicaid expansion. This article builds on those analyses by exploring an additional case, the US expansion of Old-Age Assistance (OAA) programs between 1932 and 1940. It provides new evidence that means-tested programs can mobilize their beneficiaries and…
I'm Not Sure What to Believe: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social scientists have documented rapid polarization in public opinion about COVID-19 policies. Such polarization is somewhat unsurprising given experimental studies that show opinions on novel issues can diverge quickly in the presence of partisan frames. In this paper I describe a different process that operates alongside polarization: not centrism but a lack of opinion formation. Drawing on four rounds of in-depth interviews with 86 Midwestern…
I'm Not Sure What to Believe: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social scientists have documented rapid polarization in public opinion about COVID-19 policies. Such polarization is somewhat unsurprising given experimental studies that show opinions on novel issues can diverge quickly in the presence of partisan frames. In this paper I describe a different process that operates alongside polarization: not centrism but a lack of opinion formation. Drawing on four rounds of in-depth interviews with 86 Midwestern…
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future
How does the moral calculus of gentrification change for self-conscious newcomers in neighborhoods with a reputation deemed unworthy of preserving? In pointing to a set of practices distinct from 'pioneering' accounts of gentrification, Brown-Saracino (2007) identified social preservationists as figures who seek to preserve authentic community and the marginalized old-timers who embody it. Using the deviant case of Bridgeport-a historically White…
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
The contemporary field of American political behavior lacks a methodological tradition of in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. In this article, we illustrate the causes and consequences of this gap and argue for a renewal of methodological pluralism. First, we situate the current dearth of qualitative approaches within two key methodological debates during the behavioral turn in political science, showing that scholars initially embrac…
Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party
What role did urban machines play in national politics during the New Deal? To what extent did they serve as facilitators in a local-national patronage system, converting the flow of federal funds into their cities into votes for federal Democratic candidates? To answer these questions, we bring together data on urban machines and work relief spending, the New Deal programs that received the most public and political scorn for their supposed patr…
How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago
Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary studies of spatial inequality rarely measure politics directly. In this paper, we introduce political dynasties as a way of integrating political economy approaches with ecological theory to better understand the political construction of urban spatial inequality. To do so, we examine the case of political d…
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–1940
Under what conditions do means-tested programs increase beneficiaries’ political participation? Recent scholarship has begun to shed light on this question through a series of causal studies of Medicaid expansion. This article builds on those analyses by exploring an additional case, the US expansion of Old-Age Assistance (OAA) programs between 1932 and 1940. It provides new evidence that means-tested programs can mobilize their beneficiaries and…
Place-Based Partisanship: How Place (Re)produces Americans' Partisan Attachments
How does place inform Americans’ partisan attachments? This article takes up this question by drawing on four rounds of interviews with residents across two midwestern cities that share several demographic characteristics but have voted differently in presidential elections for decades. These cases pose a puzzle to existing scholarship, which often argues that place politics is rooted in local structural characteristics—economics and demographics…
The Electoral Effects of Social Policy: Expanding Old-Age Assistance, 1932–1940
Under what conditions do means-tested programs increase beneficiaries’ political participation? Recent scholarship has begun to shed light on this question through a series of causal studies of Medicaid expansion. This article builds on those analyses by exploring an additional case, the US expansion of Old-Age Assistance (OAA) programs between 1932 and 1940. It provides new evidence that means-tested programs can mobilize their beneficiaries and…
I'm Not Sure What to Believe: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Social scientists have documented rapid polarization in public opinion about COVID-19 policies. Such polarization is somewhat unsurprising given experimental studies that show opinions on novel issues can diverge quickly in the presence of partisan frames. In this paper I describe a different process that operates alongside polarization: not centrism but a lack of opinion formation. Drawing on four rounds of in-depth interviews with 86 Midwestern…
Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party
What role did urban machines play in national politics during the New Deal? To what extent did they serve as facilitators in a local-national patronage system, converting the flow of federal funds into their cities into votes for federal Democratic candidates? To answer these questions, we bring together data on urban machines and work relief spending, the New Deal programs that received the most public and political scorn for their supposed patr…
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future
How does the moral calculus of gentrification change for self-conscious newcomers in neighborhoods with a reputation deemed unworthy of preserving? In pointing to a set of practices distinct from 'pioneering' accounts of gentrification, Brown-Saracino (2007) identified social preservationists as figures who seek to preserve authentic community and the marginalized old-timers who embody it. Using the deviant case of Bridgeport-a historically White…
How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago
Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary studies of spatial inequality rarely measure politics directly. In this paper, we introduce political dynasties as a way of integrating political economy approaches with ecological theory to better understand the political construction of urban spatial inequality. To do so, we examine the case of political d…
Place-Based Partisanship: How Place (Re)produces Americans' Partisan Attachments
How does place inform Americans’ partisan attachments? This article takes up this question by drawing on four rounds of interviews with residents across two midwestern cities that share several demographic characteristics but have voted differently in presidential elections for decades. These cases pose a puzzle to existing scholarship, which often argues that place politics is rooted in local structural characteristics—economics and demographics…
Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter
The contemporary field of American political behavior lacks a methodological tradition of in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. In this article, we illustrate the causes and consequences of this gap and argue for a renewal of methodological pluralism. First, we situate the current dearth of qualitative approaches within two key methodological debates during the behavioral turn in political science, showing that scholars initially embrac…
The Demise of Organized Labor and the Rise of Postindustrial Populism
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt
Opinion Change in Nonpartisan Contexts: The Case of Residential Zoning Reform
How do voters form policy preferences in nonpartisan contexts? This paper answers this question through the case of residential zoning, a key policy domain of largely nonpartisan local governments. Drawing on fieldwork during a residential zoning initiative in Menlo Park, CA, I show how a local campaign shaped residents’ opinions by providing them with both ideological information and nonpartisan group cues. I then show that key components of thi…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)