Kevin Wallsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 204998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Wallsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallsten |
| SIGNATURE | WALLSTEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union
Risk, Resistance and Resilience: Birth Control Policy in the Wake of Dobbs
The US Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has potentially profound implications for contraception. Contraceptives came up frequently in oral arguments and constitutional protections for abortion and birth control are fundamentally linked (Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479, 1965). Moreover, in recent decisions (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 573 US 682, 2014) the court has endorsed the position of some re…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Race, Racial Resentment, and Public Opinion Toward Financial Compensation of College Athletes
The last decade has seen a series of high-profile battles over the rights of college athletes take place in the nation’s courthouses and state legislatures, and on the floor of the U.S. Congress. How has the public responded to these changes and how do they formulate their views on policies that seek to provide additional financial compensation and employment protections to college athletes? Using six years of nationally representative polling da…
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Race, partisanship, and perceptions of inter-minority commonality
Feelings of commonality are central to the formation of multiracial political coalitions. Despite a fairly voluminous literature on where these feelings come from, however, relatively little is known about how elite messages influence individual-level perceptions of intergroup relations. This oversight is surprising given that so-called “elite opinion” theory has become “virtually orthodoxy” within political science. In order to explore the poten…
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Persuasion From Below: An experimental assessment of the impact of anonymous comments sections
Guided by the belief that anonymity inevitably breeds the kind of uncivil discourse that hurts their readers, many news organizations have chosen to ban anonymous comments sections on their websites in recent years. Unfortunately, little empirical research has been conducted to assess whether exposure to anonymous comments actually does influence people's attitudes. In this paper, we address this oversight by asking: do anonymous comments posted …
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
Many Sources, One Message: Political Blog Links to Online Videos During the 2008 Campaign
Political bloggers occupy a unique and influential position in determining whether an online political video attracts attention from Internet users, journalists, and politicians. Despite the central role that bloggers play in the process of filtering online videos, however, there have been no systematic empirical studies of the kinds of videos that political bloggers choose to link to on their blogs. Using the data derived from 100 randomly selec…
Yes We Can”: How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion, Campaign Statements, and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon
“Viral videos”—online video clips that gain widespread popularity when they are passed from person to person via e-mail, instant messages, and media-sharing Web sites—can exert a strong influence on election campaigns. Unfortunately, there has been almost no systematic empirical research on the factors that lead viral videos to spread across the Internet and permeate into the dominant political discourse. This article provides an initial assessme…
Gay Rights
The controversy surrounding gay rights represents the most recent part in the long story of often unpopular attempts by courts to protect minorities from discrimination and to broaden the constitutional guarantees concerning freedom of intimate associations. This chapter traces the remarkable rise in attitudes favorable toward gay people and gay rights over the past thirty years. It then explores the relationship between court decisions on gay ri…
Political Blogs: Transmission Belts, Soapboxes, Mobilizers, or Conversation Starters
This paper makes an initial attempt to situate political blogging alongside other forms of political participation by asking the question: how do political bloggers actually use their blogs? More specifically, this paper relies on a detailed content analysis of 5,000 less popular and 5,000 A‐list political blog posts over the course of the 2004 campaign in order to determine whether political bloggers use their blogs primarily as “soapboxes,” “tr…
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture , Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink's most recent book, Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, is a wide ranging and largely disconnected collection of essays that attempts to theorize and critique the va
Agenda Setting and the Blogosphere: An Analysis of the Relationship between Mainstream Media and Political Blogs
This paper asks: what is the relationship between the mainstream media and blog agendas? To be more precise, this paper tracks media coverage and blog discussion of 35 issues during the 2004 presidential campaign to test the hypothesis that the mainstream media agenda exerts a substantial impact on the blog agenda against the increasingly popular hypothesis that the blog agenda exerts a strong influence on the mainstream media agenda. Using a com…
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Agenda Setting and the Blogosphere: An Analysis of the Relationship between Mainstream Media and Political Blogs
This paper asks: what is the relationship between the mainstream media and blog agendas? To be more precise, this paper tracks media coverage and blog discussion of 35 issues during the 2004 presidential campaign to test the hypothesis that the mainstream media agenda exerts a substantial impact on the blog agenda against the increasingly popular hypothesis that the blog agenda exerts a strong influence on the mainstream media agenda. Using a com…
Yes We Can”: How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion, Campaign Statements, and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon
“Viral videos”—online video clips that gain widespread popularity when they are passed from person to person via e-mail, instant messages, and media-sharing Web sites—can exert a strong influence on election campaigns. Unfortunately, there has been almost no systematic empirical research on the factors that lead viral videos to spread across the Internet and permeate into the dominant political discourse. This article provides an initial assessme…
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Political Blogs: Transmission Belts, Soapboxes, Mobilizers, or Conversation Starters
This paper makes an initial attempt to situate political blogging alongside other forms of political participation by asking the question: how do political bloggers actually use their blogs? More specifically, this paper relies on a detailed content analysis of 5,000 less popular and 5,000 A‐list political blog posts over the course of the 2004 campaign in order to determine whether political bloggers use their blogs primarily as “soapboxes,” “tr…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
Race, partisanship, and perceptions of inter-minority commonality
Feelings of commonality are central to the formation of multiracial political coalitions. Despite a fairly voluminous literature on where these feelings come from, however, relatively little is known about how elite messages influence individual-level perceptions of intergroup relations. This oversight is surprising given that so-called “elite opinion” theory has become “virtually orthodoxy” within political science. In order to explore the poten…
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union
Persuasion From Below: An experimental assessment of the impact of anonymous comments sections
Guided by the belief that anonymity inevitably breeds the kind of uncivil discourse that hurts their readers, many news organizations have chosen to ban anonymous comments sections on their websites in recent years. Unfortunately, little empirical research has been conducted to assess whether exposure to anonymous comments actually does influence people's attitudes. In this paper, we address this oversight by asking: do anonymous comments posted …
Many Sources, One Message: Political Blog Links to Online Videos During the 2008 Campaign
Political bloggers occupy a unique and influential position in determining whether an online political video attracts attention from Internet users, journalists, and politicians. Despite the central role that bloggers play in the process of filtering online videos, however, there have been no systematic empirical studies of the kinds of videos that political bloggers choose to link to on their blogs. Using the data derived from 100 randomly selec…
Agenda Setting and the Blogosphere: An Analysis of the Relationship between Mainstream Media and Political Blogs
This paper asks: what is the relationship between the mainstream media and blog agendas? To be more precise, this paper tracks media coverage and blog discussion of 35 issues during the 2004 presidential campaign to test the hypothesis that the mainstream media agenda exerts a substantial impact on the blog agenda against the increasingly popular hypothesis that the blog agenda exerts a strong influence on the mainstream media agenda. Using a com…
Gay Rights
The controversy surrounding gay rights represents the most recent part in the long story of often unpopular attempts by courts to protect minorities from discrimination and to broaden the constitutional guarantees concerning freedom of intimate associations. This chapter traces the remarkable rise in attitudes favorable toward gay people and gay rights over the past thirty years. It then explores the relationship between court decisions on gay ri…
Political Blogs: Transmission Belts, Soapboxes, Mobilizers, or Conversation Starters
This paper makes an initial attempt to situate political blogging alongside other forms of political participation by asking the question: how do political bloggers actually use their blogs? More specifically, this paper relies on a detailed content analysis of 5,000 less popular and 5,000 A‐list political blog posts over the course of the 2004 campaign in order to determine whether political bloggers use their blogs primarily as “soapboxes,” “tr…
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture , Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink's most recent book, Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture, is a wide ranging and largely disconnected collection of essays that attempts to theorize and critique the va
Yes We Can”: How Online Viewership, Blog Discussion, Campaign Statements, and Mainstream Media Coverage Produced a Viral Video Phenomenon
“Viral videos”—online video clips that gain widespread popularity when they are passed from person to person via e-mail, instant messages, and media-sharing Web sites—can exert a strong influence on election campaigns. Unfortunately, there has been almost no systematic empirical research on the factors that lead viral videos to spread across the Internet and permeate into the dominant political discourse. This article provides an initial assessme…
Many Sources, One Message: Political Blog Links to Online Videos During the 2008 Campaign
Political bloggers occupy a unique and influential position in determining whether an online political video attracts attention from Internet users, journalists, and politicians. Despite the central role that bloggers play in the process of filtering online videos, however, there have been no systematic empirical studies of the kinds of videos that political bloggers choose to link to on their blogs. Using the data derived from 100 randomly selec…
Preaching to the Choir? Religious Leaders and A merican Opinion on Immigration Reform
Objective Do the public declarations of religious leaders concerning immigration influence A merican public opinion on immigration reform? Methods In answering this question, we use the 2004 National Politics Study and employ ordered logistic regression techniques to test hypotheses derived from elite opinion theory. Results We find that exposure to elite messages from religious leaders on immigration leads respondents to more strongly support in…
Something in Common: Elite Messages, Partisanship, and Latino Perceptions of Commonality With African Americans
Does elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the a…
Persuasion From Below: An experimental assessment of the impact of anonymous comments sections
Guided by the belief that anonymity inevitably breeds the kind of uncivil discourse that hurts their readers, many news organizations have chosen to ban anonymous comments sections on their websites in recent years. Unfortunately, little empirical research has been conducted to assess whether exposure to anonymous comments actually does influence people's attitudes. In this paper, we address this oversight by asking: do anonymous comments posted …
Race, partisanship, and perceptions of inter-minority commonality
Feelings of commonality are central to the formation of multiracial political coalitions. Despite a fairly voluminous literature on where these feelings come from, however, relatively little is known about how elite messages influence individual-level perceptions of intergroup relations. This oversight is surprising given that so-called “elite opinion” theory has become “virtually orthodoxy” within political science. In order to explore the poten…
For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt: Clergy, Religiosity, and Public Opinion toward Immigration Reform in the United States
Recently, a number of influential clergy leaders have declared their support for liberal immigration reforms. Do the pronouncements of religious leaders influence public opinion on immigration? Using data from a survey experiment embedded in the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we find that exposure to the arguments from high profile religious leaders can compel some individuals to reconsider their views on the immigration. To be mo…
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Race, Racial Resentment, and Public Opinion Toward Financial Compensation of College Athletes
The last decade has seen a series of high-profile battles over the rights of college athletes take place in the nation’s courthouses and state legislatures, and on the floor of the U.S. Congress. How has the public responded to these changes and how do they formulate their views on policies that seek to provide additional financial compensation and employment protections to college athletes? Using six years of nationally representative polling da…
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union
Risk, Resistance and Resilience: Birth Control Policy in the Wake of Dobbs
The US Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has potentially profound implications for contraception. Contraceptives came up frequently in oral arguments and constitutional protections for abortion and birth control are fundamentally linked (Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479, 1965). Moreover, in recent decisions (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 573 US 682, 2014) the court has endorsed the position of some re…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Public opinion (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · World Wide Web (6 works)