Wayde Z C Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 254932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayde Z C Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayde Z C |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | MARSH W Z C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1079-867X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nonpolitical Identity Signals as Information Shortcuts
A rich literature has documented how voters navigate the complex information landscape by using heuristics, or “information shortcuts,” to help them make sense of the political world. Additionally, a budding line of research argues that our current polarization crisis has extended beyond just the political and now even affects the nonpolitical realm. We submit that voters may be using these nonpolitical identity signals (e.g., a candidate driving…
No One Mourns the Wicked
Who do we blame when bad things happen? Has division in American society made us less sympathetic to victims of tragedies? In previous trying times (e.g., 9/11 and Columbine), Americans rallied together to support victims and seek government solutions. In a highly polarized era, however, we have witnessed further division rather than unity. In this paper, I leverage original, pre-registered survey experiments to examine how much Americans blame a…
Elections and Representation in American Municipal Administration
Do selection methods for public officials impact how they represent their constituents? Municipal clerks in the New England states offer an ideal case to examine this question. As key government actors in full-service local governments with minimal overlapping jurisdictions, clerks in these states vary in how they are selected—either through election or appointment. Using an original online and mail survey of municipal clerks across five New Engl…
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Trust After Tragedy
Will Americans Vote for an Atheist
Conventional wisdom holds and previous research confirms that for a political candidate, atheism is anathema. But the United States is becoming a more secular nation. Does secularization mean that atheists are acceptable to some Americans, specifically Democrats and voters with low religiosity? Can concerns about atheists be assuaged by appealing to the superordinate identity of 'patriotic American'? Drawing on four survey experiments, we find th…
The Pandemic and Political Behavior
Political Behavior is the official journal of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior organized section of the American Political Science Association. It publishes research on the political behavior of citizens, political activists, and political officeholders in the United States and around the world. From the perspective of its Journal Impact Factor, the journal’s reputation and impact have grown steadily in recent years. The first a…
The Devil No More? Decreasing Negative Outparty Affect through Asymmetric Partisan Thinking
Political scientists, party elites, and journalists agree that affective polarization and negative partisanship are serious problems in American politics, but is it possible to reverse this trend and decrease negative outparty affect? Using two original survey experiments that manipulate partisans to think of the Republican and Democratic parties in either expressive or instrumental terms, I find that providing policy information about the partie…
Trauma and Turnout
How do traumatic experiences shape individuals' political behavior? Political scientists have investigated the behavioral changes caused by natural disasters and terrorist attacks, but no work to date has investigated the political consequences of such events using the framework of psychological trauma. In this study, I develop a theory of posttraumatic political response that explains how traumatic events influence voter turnout. To test this th…
Putting US First
How do voters construct feelings toward inparty elites? More specifically, how do they do so when they lack a shared policy agenda or shared salient social identity with candidates beyond partisan identification? In this paper, I investigate this puzzle by developing a theory of Putting America First to explain white evangelical affect toward Republican presidential candidates from 2004 to 2016. Using ANES surveys from 2004 to 2016, I test the ef…
Unlinking fate? Discrimination, group-consciousness, and political participation among Latinos and whites
Twenty-five years after its publication, Michael Dawson’s Behind the Mule remains a monograph of great theoretical and empirical value. In the wake of the election of the first nonwhite president of the United States in 2008 and primed racial-ethnic threat throughout the 2016 election and Trump presidency, however, Dawson’s theory requires deeper reflection and reconsideration. In this paper, we investigate the political relevance of racial-ethni…
Trauma and Turnout
How do traumatic experiences shape individuals' political behavior? Political scientists have investigated the behavioral changes caused by natural disasters and terrorist attacks, but no work to date has investigated the political consequences of such events using the framework of psychological trauma. In this study, I develop a theory of posttraumatic political response that explains how traumatic events influence voter turnout. To test this th…
Unlinking fate? Discrimination, group-consciousness, and political participation among Latinos and whites
Twenty-five years after its publication, Michael Dawson’s Behind the Mule remains a monograph of great theoretical and empirical value. In the wake of the election of the first nonwhite president of the United States in 2008 and primed racial-ethnic threat throughout the 2016 election and Trump presidency, however, Dawson’s theory requires deeper reflection and reconsideration. In this paper, we investigate the political relevance of racial-ethni…
Putting US First
How do voters construct feelings toward inparty elites? More specifically, how do they do so when they lack a shared policy agenda or shared salient social identity with candidates beyond partisan identification? In this paper, I investigate this puzzle by developing a theory of Putting America First to explain white evangelical affect toward Republican presidential candidates from 2004 to 2016. Using ANES surveys from 2004 to 2016, I test the ef…
Will Americans Vote for an Atheist
Conventional wisdom holds and previous research confirms that for a political candidate, atheism is anathema. But the United States is becoming a more secular nation. Does secularization mean that atheists are acceptable to some Americans, specifically Democrats and voters with low religiosity? Can concerns about atheists be assuaged by appealing to the superordinate identity of 'patriotic American'? Drawing on four survey experiments, we find th…
The Devil No More? Decreasing Negative Outparty Affect through Asymmetric Partisan Thinking
Political scientists, party elites, and journalists agree that affective polarization and negative partisanship are serious problems in American politics, but is it possible to reverse this trend and decrease negative outparty affect? Using two original survey experiments that manipulate partisans to think of the Republican and Democratic parties in either expressive or instrumental terms, I find that providing policy information about the partie…
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Unlinking fate? Discrimination, group-consciousness, and political participation among Latinos and whites
Twenty-five years after its publication, Michael Dawson’s Behind the Mule remains a monograph of great theoretical and empirical value. In the wake of the election of the first nonwhite president of the United States in 2008 and primed racial-ethnic threat throughout the 2016 election and Trump presidency, however, Dawson’s theory requires deeper reflection and reconsideration. In this paper, we investigate the political relevance of racial-ethni…
Putting US First
How do voters construct feelings toward inparty elites? More specifically, how do they do so when they lack a shared policy agenda or shared salient social identity with candidates beyond partisan identification? In this paper, I investigate this puzzle by developing a theory of Putting America First to explain white evangelical affect toward Republican presidential candidates from 2004 to 2016. Using ANES surveys from 2004 to 2016, I test the ef…
The Devil No More? Decreasing Negative Outparty Affect through Asymmetric Partisan Thinking
Political scientists, party elites, and journalists agree that affective polarization and negative partisanship are serious problems in American politics, but is it possible to reverse this trend and decrease negative outparty affect? Using two original survey experiments that manipulate partisans to think of the Republican and Democratic parties in either expressive or instrumental terms, I find that providing policy information about the partie…
Trauma and Turnout
How do traumatic experiences shape individuals' political behavior? Political scientists have investigated the behavioral changes caused by natural disasters and terrorist attacks, but no work to date has investigated the political consequences of such events using the framework of psychological trauma. In this study, I develop a theory of posttraumatic political response that explains how traumatic events influence voter turnout. To test this th…
The Pandemic and Political Behavior
Political Behavior is the official journal of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior organized section of the American Political Science Association. It publishes research on the political behavior of citizens, political activists, and political officeholders in the United States and around the world. From the perspective of its Journal Impact Factor, the journal’s reputation and impact have grown steadily in recent years. The first a…
No One Mourns the Wicked
Who do we blame when bad things happen? Has division in American society made us less sympathetic to victims of tragedies? In previous trying times (e.g., 9/11 and Columbine), Americans rallied together to support victims and seek government solutions. In a highly polarized era, however, we have witnessed further division rather than unity. In this paper, I leverage original, pre-registered survey experiments to examine how much Americans blame a…
Elections and Representation in American Municipal Administration
Do selection methods for public officials impact how they represent their constituents? Municipal clerks in the New England states offer an ideal case to examine this question. As key government actors in full-service local governments with minimal overlapping jurisdictions, clerks in these states vary in how they are selected—either through election or appointment. Using an original online and mail survey of municipal clerks across five New Engl…
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Trust After Tragedy
Will Americans Vote for an Atheist
Conventional wisdom holds and previous research confirms that for a political candidate, atheism is anathema. But the United States is becoming a more secular nation. Does secularization mean that atheists are acceptable to some Americans, specifically Democrats and voters with low religiosity? Can concerns about atheists be assuaged by appealing to the superordinate identity of 'patriotic American'? Drawing on four survey experiments, we find th…
Nonpolitical Identity Signals as Information Shortcuts
A rich literature has documented how voters navigate the complex information landscape by using heuristics, or “information shortcuts,” to help them make sense of the political world. Additionally, a budding line of research argues that our current polarization crisis has extended beyond just the political and now even affects the nonpolitical realm. We submit that voters may be using these nonpolitical identity signals (e.g., a candidate driving…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 works)