M Abrajano
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 36715 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Abrajano |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Abrajano |
| ASSINATURA | ABRAJANO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4818-3470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 453 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Understanding How Race, Partisanship, and Gender Affect Attitudes on the Environment and Climate Change in the U.S
Previous studies indicate that in the United States, the effects of climate change disproportionately impact communities of color. Accordingly, we would expect racial/ethnic minorities to express greater concern over the environment than white Americans. However, racial/ethnic minorities are not monolithic. Therefore, we examine how intersectional identities within racial groups by partisanship and gender shape attitudes on the environment using …
Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media
Social media is used by millions of Americans to access news and politics. Yet there are no studies, to date, examining whether these behaviors systematically vary for those whose political incorporation process is distinct from those in the majority. We fill this void by examining how Latino online political activity compares to that of white Americans and the role of language in Latinos’ online political engagement. We hypothesize that Latino o…
Using civically engaged research to understand the strategic dynamics of social media outreach
Context, Contact, and Misinformation about Socially Marginalized Groups in the United States
How does context influence individuals' misinformation about socially marginalized groups? Scholarship has long found that one's geographical and social environment are important determinants for one's political attitudes. But how these contexts shape individuals' levels of misinformation about stigmatized groups remains an open and pressing question, especially given the swift rise of misinformation in recent years. Using three original surveys,…
Measuring Perceived Skin Color
Discrimination based on skin color has been documented as a considerable problem in social science research. Most of this research relies on Likert-type ratings of skin color such as the Massey-Martin Scale (MMS). Scholars have raised questions about measurement error in such scales. We hypothesize that the coding of a person’s skin color will vary depending on the race of persons previously coded. We find that the MMS is vulnerable to spillover …
(Mis)Informed
This Element examines just how much the public knows about some of America's most stigmatized social groups, who comprise 40.3% of the population, and evaluates whether misinformation matters for shaping policy attitudes and candidate support. The authors design and field an original survey containing large national samples of Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and White Americans, and include measures of misinformation designed to assess the amount o…
When campaigns call, who answers? Using observational data to enrich our understanding of phone mobilization
Answering Questions About Race
Given the fundamental role that race and ethnicity play in U.S. society, sensitive survey items on this subject can often lead individuals to underreport their true attitudes. Previous studies have shown that the absence of an interviewer reduces the pressure to provide socially desirable responses. The 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES), where both interviewer and self-administered surveys were used, allows us to test whethe…
Political Discussion Networks and Political Engagement among Voters of Color
Despite a large and growing literature documenting the powerful and positive role that political discussion networks exert on the political behavior among whites, we know little about how political discussion networks affect political behavior among voters of color. To fill this void in the existing literature, we conducted an original survey in California to gather information on a diverse group of registered voters’ political discussion network…
How Negative Sentiment toward Muslim Americans Predicts Support for Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
Since 9/11, scholarly work has demonstrated that Muslim Americans are viewed unfavorably, but existing measures lack enough contextual specificity to capture the unique experiences and situation of Muslims in the United States. Given the central role that Muslims and the war on terror played in the 2016 presidential campaign and election, we fill this void by introducing a new measure that focuses on Muslim Americans, specifically, and then exami…
Special Issue Introduction
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Labels vs. Pictures
Does treatment mode matter in studies of the effects of candidate race or ethnicity on voting decisions? The assumption implicit in most such work is that such treatment mode differences are either small and/or theoretically well understood, so that the choice of how to signal the race of a candidate is largely one of convenience. But this assumption remains untested. Using a nationally representative sample of white voting-age citizens and a mod…
Media Framing and Partisan Identity
Laboratory studies frequently find that framing changes individual issue positions. But few real-world studies have demonstrated framing induced shifts in aggregate political opinions, let alone political identities. One explanation for these divergent findings is that the competitive nature of most real-world political debates presents multiple frames that cancel each other out. We assess this proposition and the extent of real-world framing by …
Trump’s All Too Familiar Strategy and Its Future in the GOP
Although many observers have been surprised both by the racial explicit nature of Donald Trump’s campaign and the subsequent success of that campaign, we contend that Trump’s tactics and their success are far from new. We describe how for the past half century Republicans have used race and increasingly immigration to attract white voters – especially working class whites. All of this has led to an increasingly racially polarized polity and for t…
Response to Sara Wallace Goodman’s review of White Backlash
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White Backlash
White Backlash
This book provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping American politics. Using an array of data and analysis, it shows that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party. The book demonstrates that this political b…
How Watershed Immigration Policies Affect American Public Opinion over a Lifetime
Important political events are known to influence political socialization and development (Green, Palmquist, and Schickler 2002). It is also possible that such events impact political socialization within particular age cohorts, and also across important social groups who may be impacted differently by landmark events. This paper examines whether landmark immigration events can leave a permanent mark on an individual's views toward immigrants and…
Reexamining the “Racial Gap” in Political Knowledge
Scholars have long lamented the low levels of political knowledge in the American public, particularly the "racial gap" in the rates of knowledge between racial/ethnic minorities and whites. This article examines whether the racial gap is an artifact of perceptual biases or differential item functioning, brought about by the distinct political experiences of racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. In analyzing data from the 2008 American N…
Introduction to Mini-Symposium on New and Emerging Research on Latino Politics
Life-cycle effects on social pressure to vote
Polls and Elections
Recent presidential approval trends have led many pollsters to conclude that a “racial gap” exists in President Barack Obama's job approval ratings. Pollsters have focused disproportionately on the substantial gap between Blacks and Whites. Some political commentators and media outlets attribute this divergence to the fact that Obama is the first ethnic/racial minority to occupy the White House. The existence of a White‐Black gap, however, could …
Does Language Matter? The Impact of Spanish Versus English-Language Gotv Efforts on Latino Turnout
Latino voters comprise a growing segment of the voting electorate, yet their levels of participation in elections lags behind the general population and even other ethnic and racial groups. Recent experimental studies have found mobilization efforts directed at the Latino electorate to boost electoral turnout in federal, state, and local elections. Over the past two decades, campaign organizations and operatives have been increasingly relying on …
Hispanic Public Opinion and Partisanship in America
MARISA A. ABRAJANO is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Advertising to Latino Voters and various articles on the intersection of race, ethnicity and politics in leading journals. R. MICHAEL ALVAREZ is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of Electronic Elections and Hard Choi…
New Faces, New Voices
Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics? Who are Hispanic voters? What are their political preferences and attitudes, and why? The first comprehensive study of Hispanic voters in the Uni…
Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform
Objective. Agenda-setting theory is used to motivate hypotheses about how media coverage of immigration influences public perceptions of its importance. The authors seek to offer a more complete explanation of public opinion on immigration by exploring differences in the effects of immigration news in border and nonborder states. Method. This article employs content analyses of newspaper coverage of immigration and Gallup public opinion data over…
Examining the Link Between Issue Attitudes and News Source
How Negative Sentiment toward Muslim Americans Predicts Support for Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
Since 9/11, scholarly work has demonstrated that Muslim Americans are viewed unfavorably, but existing measures lack enough contextual specificity to capture the unique experiences and situation of Muslims in the United States. Given the central role that Muslims and the war on terror played in the 2016 presidential campaign and election, we fill this void by introducing a new measure that focuses on Muslim Americans, specifically, and then exami…
A Natural Experiment of Race-Based and Issue Voting
The theory of racially polarized voting suggests that race is a primary determinant of vote choice in elections where a minority candidate is pitted against a white candidate. The spatial model of voting suggests that voters consider the issue positions of candidates and choose the candidate closest to their own positions. The unique context of the 2001 Los Angeles city election allows us to test these two theories. In each of two races in this e…
Are Blacks and Latinos Responsible for the Passage of Proposition 8? Analyzing Voter Attitudes on California’s Proposal to Ban Same-Sex Marriage in 2008
On November 4, 2008, the majority of California’s electorate supported a ban on same-sex marriage. Anecdotal evidence attributes its passage to increased turnout among black and Latino voters. This article determines whether this was so; it also examines whether blacks and Latinos were more likely than whites to oppose same-sex marriage, even when accounting for religiosity and political attitudes. Had black and Latino turnout remained at the sam…
Reexamining the “Racial Gap” in Political Knowledge
Scholars have long lamented the low levels of political knowledge in the American public, particularly the "racial gap" in the rates of knowledge between racial/ethnic minorities and whites. This article examines whether the racial gap is an artifact of perceptual biases or differential item functioning, brought about by the distinct political experiences of racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. In analyzing data from the 2008 American N…
The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election
This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant \ncontribution to the literature on Hispanic politics, as this is the first study to apply theories of issue and economic \nvoting to a nationwide sample of Hispanic voters. We demonstrate that, similar to Anglos, issues and ideology were \nhighly influential in the vote choice of Hispanics in the 2004 election. However, using the best…
Does Language Matter? The Impact of Spanish Versus English-Language Gotv Efforts on Latino Turnout
Latino voters comprise a growing segment of the voting electorate, yet their levels of participation in elections lags behind the general population and even other ethnic and racial groups. Recent experimental studies have found mobilization efforts directed at the Latino electorate to boost electoral turnout in federal, state, and local elections. Over the past two decades, campaign organizations and operatives have been increasingly relying on …
Assessing the Causes and Effects of Political Trust Among U.S. Latinos
This article examines why Latinos are more trusting of the federal government than Anglos and Blacks. We address this puzzle by turning to previous research on racial politics and political trust. Consistent with previous research, discrimination and generational status are important predictors of Latinos’ political trust, with first-generation Latinos more trusting than later-generation Latinos. Encounters with racial discrimination also make La…
Media Framing and Partisan Identity
Laboratory studies frequently find that framing changes individual issue positions. But few real-world studies have demonstrated framing induced shifts in aggregate political opinions, let alone political identities. One explanation for these divergent findings is that the competitive nature of most real-world political debates presents multiple frames that cancel each other out. We assess this proposition and the extent of real-world framing by …
Labels vs. Pictures
Does treatment mode matter in studies of the effects of candidate race or ethnicity on voting decisions? The assumption implicit in most such work is that such treatment mode differences are either small and/or theoretically well understood, so that the choice of how to signal the race of a candidate is largely one of convenience. But this assumption remains untested. Using a nationally representative sample of white voting-age citizens and a mod…
Who Evaluates a Presidential Candidate by Using Non-Policy Campaign Messages
This article tests the hypothesis that low-education voters are more likely to evaluate a candidate using personalistic or non-policy campaign messages than are more educated voters. The Latino electorate in the U.S. presents an ideal case study, given that both Presidential candidates in the 2000 election directed personalistic campaign messages toward them. Latinos with low-levels of education should be the most likely to evaluate a candidate u…
Hispanic Public Opinion and Partisanship in America
MARISA A. ABRAJANO is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Advertising to Latino Voters and various articles on the intersection of race, ethnicity and politics in leading journals. R. MICHAEL ALVAREZ is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of Electronic Elections and Hard Choi…
How Watershed Immigration Policies Affect American Public Opinion over a Lifetime
Important political events are known to influence political socialization and development (Green, Palmquist, and Schickler 2002). It is also possible that such events impact political socialization within particular age cohorts, and also across important social groups who may be impacted differently by landmark events. This paper examines whether landmark immigration events can leave a permanent mark on an individual's views toward immigrants and…
Polls and Elections
Recent presidential approval trends have led many pollsters to conclude that a “racial gap” exists in President Barack Obama's job approval ratings. Pollsters have focused disproportionately on the substantial gap between Blacks and Whites. Some political commentators and media outlets attribute this divergence to the fact that Obama is the first ethnic/racial minority to occupy the White House. The existence of a White‐Black gap, however, could …
Life-cycle effects on social pressure to vote
White Backlash
This book provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping American politics. Using an array of data and analysis, it shows that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party. The book demonstrates that this political b…
Answering Questions About Race
Given the fundamental role that race and ethnicity play in U.S. society, sensitive survey items on this subject can often lead individuals to underreport their true attitudes. Previous studies have shown that the absence of an interviewer reduces the pressure to provide socially desirable responses. The 2012 and 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES), where both interviewer and self-administered surveys were used, allows us to test whethe…
Measuring Perceived Skin Color
Discrimination based on skin color has been documented as a considerable problem in social science research. Most of this research relies on Likert-type ratings of skin color such as the Massey-Martin Scale (MMS). Scholars have raised questions about measurement error in such scales. We hypothesize that the coding of a person’s skin color will vary depending on the race of persons previously coded. We find that the MMS is vulnerable to spillover …
When campaigns call, who answers? Using observational data to enrich our understanding of phone mobilization
Context, Contact, and Misinformation about Socially Marginalized Groups in the United States
How does context influence individuals' misinformation about socially marginalized groups? Scholarship has long found that one's geographical and social environment are important determinants for one's political attitudes. But how these contexts shape individuals' levels of misinformation about stigmatized groups remains an open and pressing question, especially given the swift rise of misinformation in recent years. Using three original surveys,…
Political Discussion Networks and Political Engagement among Voters of Color
Despite a large and growing literature documenting the powerful and positive role that political discussion networks exert on the political behavior among whites, we know little about how political discussion networks affect political behavior among voters of color. To fill this void in the existing literature, we conducted an original survey in California to gather information on a diverse group of registered voters’ political discussion network…
Trump’s All Too Familiar Strategy and Its Future in the GOP
Although many observers have been surprised both by the racial explicit nature of Donald Trump’s campaign and the subsequent success of that campaign, we contend that Trump’s tactics and their success are far from new. We describe how for the past half century Republicans have used race and increasingly immigration to attract white voters – especially working class whites. All of this has led to an increasingly racially polarized polity and for t…
Response to Sara Wallace Goodman’s review of White Backlash
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who Evaluates a Presidential Candidate by Using Non-Policy Campaign Messages
A Natural Experiment of Race-Based and Issue Voting
A Natural Experiment of Race-Based and Issue Voting
The theory of racially polarized voting suggests that race is a primary determinant of vote choice in elections where a minority candidate is pitted against a white candidate. The spatial model of voting suggests that voters consider the issue positions of candidates and choose the candidate closest to their own positions. The unique context of the 2001 Los Angeles city election allows us to test these two theories. In each of two races in this e…
Who Evaluates a Presidential Candidate by Using Non-Policy Campaign Messages
This article tests the hypothesis that low-education voters are more likely to evaluate a candidate using personalistic or non-policy campaign messages than are more educated voters. The Latino electorate in the U.S. presents an ideal case study, given that both Presidential candidates in the 2000 election directed personalistic campaign messages toward them. Latinos with low-levels of education should be the most likely to evaluate a candidate u…
Get Me to the Polls on Time
Until recently, Latinos were nearly invisible on the national political scene, garnering little attention from political parties, candidates, and scholars alike. Much has changed in the last several decades, and Latinos are now the largest minority group in the country, making up more than 12 percent of the U.S. population. With a steady stream of immigrants from Mexico and Latin America, the proportion of Latinos is expected to more than double …
The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election
This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant \ncontribution to the literature on Hispanic politics, as this is the first study to apply theories of issue and economic \nvoting to a nationwide sample of Hispanic voters. We demonstrate that, similar to Anglos, issues and ideology were \nhighly influential in the vote choice of Hispanics in the 2004 election. However, using the best…
Examining the Link Between Issue Attitudes and News Source
New Faces, New Voices
Making up 14.2 percent of the American population, Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States. Clearly, securing the Hispanic vote is more important to political parties than ever before. Yet, despite the current size of the Hispanic population, is there a clear Hispanic politics? Who are Hispanic voters? What are their political preferences and attitudes, and why? The first comprehensive study of Hispanic voters in the Uni…
Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform
Objective. Agenda-setting theory is used to motivate hypotheses about how media coverage of immigration influences public perceptions of its importance. The authors seek to offer a more complete explanation of public opinion on immigration by exploring differences in the effects of immigration news in border and nonborder states. Method. This article employs content analyses of newspaper coverage of immigration and Gallup public opinion data over…
Assessing the Causes and Effects of Political Trust Among U.S. Latinos
This article examines why Latinos are more trusting of the federal government than Anglos and Blacks. We address this puzzle by turning to previous research on racial politics and political trust. Consistent with previous research, discrimination and generational status are important predictors of Latinos’ political trust, with first-generation Latinos more trusting than later-generation Latinos. Encounters with racial discrimination also make La…
Are Blacks and Latinos Responsible for the Passage of Proposition 8? Analyzing Voter Attitudes on California’s Proposal to Ban Same-Sex Marriage in 2008
On November 4, 2008, the majority of California’s electorate supported a ban on same-sex marriage. Anecdotal evidence attributes its passage to increased turnout among black and Latino voters. This article determines whether this was so; it also examines whether blacks and Latinos were more likely than whites to oppose same-sex marriage, even when accounting for religiosity and political attitudes. Had black and Latino turnout remained at the sam…
Does Language Matter? The Impact of Spanish Versus English-Language Gotv Efforts on Latino Turnout
Latino voters comprise a growing segment of the voting electorate, yet their levels of participation in elections lags behind the general population and even other ethnic and racial groups. Recent experimental studies have found mobilization efforts directed at the Latino electorate to boost electoral turnout in federal, state, and local elections. Over the past two decades, campaign organizations and operatives have been increasingly relying on …
Hispanic Public Opinion and Partisanship in America
MARISA A. ABRAJANO is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Advertising to Latino Voters and various articles on the intersection of race, ethnicity and politics in leading journals. R. MICHAEL ALVAREZ is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of Electronic Elections and Hard Choi…
Polls and Elections
Recent presidential approval trends have led many pollsters to conclude that a “racial gap” exists in President Barack Obama's job approval ratings. Pollsters have focused disproportionately on the substantial gap between Blacks and Whites. Some political commentators and media outlets attribute this divergence to the fact that Obama is the first ethnic/racial minority to occupy the White House. The existence of a White‐Black gap, however, could …
Introduction to Mini-Symposium on New and Emerging Research on Latino Politics
Life-cycle effects on social pressure to vote
White Backlash
White Backlash
This book provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping American politics. Using an array of data and analysis, it shows that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party. The book demonstrates that this political b…
How Watershed Immigration Policies Affect American Public Opinion over a Lifetime
Important political events are known to influence political socialization and development (Green, Palmquist, and Schickler 2002). It is also possible that such events impact political socialization within particular age cohorts, and also across important social groups who may be impacted differently by landmark events. This paper examines whether landmark immigration events can leave a permanent mark on an individual's views toward immigrants and…
Reexamining the “Racial Gap” in Political Knowledge
Scholars have long lamented the low levels of political knowledge in the American public, particularly the "racial gap" in the rates of knowledge between racial/ethnic minorities and whites. This article examines whether the racial gap is an artifact of perceptual biases or differential item functioning, brought about by the distinct political experiences of racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. In analyzing data from the 2008 American N…
Trump’s All Too Familiar Strategy and Its Future in the GOP
Although many observers have been surprised both by the racial explicit nature of Donald Trump’s campaign and the subsequent success of that campaign, we contend that Trump’s tactics and their success are far from new. We describe how for the past half century Republicans have used race and increasingly immigration to attract white voters – especially working class whites. All of this has led to an increasingly racially polarized polity and for t…
Response to Sara Wallace Goodman’s review of White Backlash
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Media Framing and Partisan Identity
Laboratory studies frequently find that framing changes individual issue positions. But few real-world studies have demonstrated framing induced shifts in aggregate political opinions, let alone political identities. One explanation for these divergent findings is that the competitive nature of most real-world political debates presents multiple frames that cancel each other out. We assess this proposition and the extent of real-world framing by …
Special Issue Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Labels vs. Pictures
Does treatment mode matter in studies of the effects of candidate race or ethnicity on voting decisions? The assumption implicit in most such work is that such treatment mode differences are either small and/or theoretically well understood, so that the choice of how to signal the race of a candidate is largely one of convenience. But this assumption remains untested. Using a nationally representative sample of white voting-age citizens and a mod…
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