Jocelyn Sage Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Sage Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn Sage |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3374-9267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Desirability and Political Sensitivity
Survey research is growing, yet research on data quality continues to rely mainly on samples from the United States and Europe. To contribute, we test for interviewer gender effects on men in the Middle East and North Africa, where studies of data quality are particularly scarce. Theoretically, we focus on the implications of less gender-egalitarian contexts for response tendencies. For questions about politics and government, we find that men re…
The Curious Case of the Missing Bedouin in the National Museum of Qatar
Women reporters as experts on security affairs in Jordan? Rethinking gender and issue competency stereotypes
Research on gender and issue competency stereotypes frequently deems security affairs a “stereotypically masculine” domain. Traditionally, men are seen as more credible authorities in arenas such as crime and the military, while women are assumed to be more credible in “stereotypically feminine” ones like childcare and health. But women’s roles in politics, media, and other influential sectors are rapidly changing in the Mediterranean and MENA re…
Transnational identity and the Gulf crisis
What does the recent Gulf diplomatic crisis of June 2017 to January 2021 mean for the future of the region's signature transnationalism: the khalījī [Gulf] identity? This identity narrative encompasses the shared sociocultural backgrounds of the people of the region, but the unprecedented separations, caused by the regional crisis, may have shifted the discourse of belonging in the Gulf. To investigate the impact of the recent crisis on regional …
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
While institutional support is growing for women in leadership positions across the Arab world, little is known about how rising numbers of women in roles of authority and expertise are being perceived. We examine how general theories of gender bias fit new data from a survey experiment spanning nationally representative samples in five Arab countries. The experiment captured how citizens judge women who adopt the stereotypically masculine role o…
Nationalism and Identity in Qatar after 2017
How are nationalism and national identity shifting in Qatar as a result of the regional crisis? This study explores whether this moment of geopolitical fluidity allows for changes in sociocultural behavior and norms among Qatari citizens. Specifically, this research uses the case study of the newly opened National Museum of Qatar to examine a state-crafted narrative of national identity and society’s response to this narrative. Our original field…
Return to the Isle of Ted
This article modifies the classic “Isle of Ted” simulation to teach students about the collective action problems associated with climate change. Modifications include the introduction of a common-pool resource (i.e., fish) and increased pirate attacks to model rising climate threats and unequal distribution of risk. A return to the Isle of Ted enables a deeper engagement with specific collective action problems of climate change, including the t…
Blockade
The online public sphere, and the ways in which its digital media platforms influence discourse, is a crucial but understudied area of research in the six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Through a case study of the ongoing Gulf diplomatic crisis, which began in June 2017, this essay draws on the disciplines of political science, communication, and digital media studies to analyze qualitative examples of digital discourse: the role of women, …
What Money Can’t Buy
How do perceived inequalities in allocation impact citizen satisfaction with state-distributed benefits in rentier societies? Resource-rich rentier regimes are widely theorized to maintain the economic and political satisfaction of subjects through wealth distribution. Yet, while qualitative research in the rentier states of the Arabian Peninsula has identified unequal distribution as a source of discontent, the relative importance of objective v…
Old Media, New Narratives
In 1959, a Danish anthropological expedition to Qatar created hundreds of photographs and a 16-minute film depicting the diversity of Qatari lifestyles, which included strong evidence of a Bedouin past, separate from the merchant and pearl-diving culture of the coast. However, Qatar’s new national museum, still under development, has been working on a different narrative: a more unified national identity that emphasizes the similarities of Qatari…
A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage
A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from the first applications of anchoring vignettes in Qatar and, to our knowledge, the Arab world. We extend previous findings both geographically and substantively to show that a range of social and demographic variables account for important variation in response scale use in the dom…
Qatar and the Arab Spring
As any political scientist would say, the trouble with studying current events is that policies, leaders and even regimes can change rapidly (and unexpectedly), with a callous disregard for publica
Qatar
Political and Socioeconomic Transformation in the GCC
Although the Middle East remains one of the least free regions of the world in 2009, it is possible to study political transformation in the region. This paper provides an overview of political transformation in the six Gulf states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, over the past 20 years. After a brief overview of the formal political changes, which are often superfici…
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
While institutional support is growing for women in leadership positions across the Arab world, little is known about how rising numbers of women in roles of authority and expertise are being perceived. We examine how general theories of gender bias fit new data from a survey experiment spanning nationally representative samples in five Arab countries. The experiment captured how citizens judge women who adopt the stereotypically masculine role o…
What Money Can’t Buy
How do perceived inequalities in allocation impact citizen satisfaction with state-distributed benefits in rentier societies? Resource-rich rentier regimes are widely theorized to maintain the economic and political satisfaction of subjects through wealth distribution. Yet, while qualitative research in the rentier states of the Arabian Peninsula has identified unequal distribution as a source of discontent, the relative importance of objective v…
Transnational identity and the Gulf crisis
What does the recent Gulf diplomatic crisis of June 2017 to January 2021 mean for the future of the region's signature transnationalism: the khalījī [Gulf] identity? This identity narrative encompasses the shared sociocultural backgrounds of the people of the region, but the unprecedented separations, caused by the regional crisis, may have shifted the discourse of belonging in the Gulf. To investigate the impact of the recent crisis on regional …
Women reporters as experts on security affairs in Jordan? Rethinking gender and issue competency stereotypes
Research on gender and issue competency stereotypes frequently deems security affairs a “stereotypically masculine” domain. Traditionally, men are seen as more credible authorities in arenas such as crime and the military, while women are assumed to be more credible in “stereotypically feminine” ones like childcare and health. But women’s roles in politics, media, and other influential sectors are rapidly changing in the Mediterranean and MENA re…
Social Desirability and Political Sensitivity
Survey research is growing, yet research on data quality continues to rely mainly on samples from the United States and Europe. To contribute, we test for interviewer gender effects on men in the Middle East and North Africa, where studies of data quality are particularly scarce. Theoretically, we focus on the implications of less gender-egalitarian contexts for response tendencies. For questions about politics and government, we find that men re…
Political and Socioeconomic Transformation in the GCC
Although the Middle East remains one of the least free regions of the world in 2009, it is possible to study political transformation in the region. This paper provides an overview of political transformation in the six Gulf states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, over the past 20 years. After a brief overview of the formal political changes, which are often superfici…
Political and Socioeconomic Transformation in the GCC
Although the Middle East remains one of the least free regions of the world in 2009, it is possible to study political transformation in the region. This paper provides an overview of political transformation in the six Gulf states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, over the past 20 years. After a brief overview of the formal political changes, which are often superfici…
Qatar
Qatar and the Arab Spring
As any political scientist would say, the trouble with studying current events is that policies, leaders and even regimes can change rapidly (and unexpectedly), with a callous disregard for publica
A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage
A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from the first applications of anchoring vignettes in Qatar and, to our knowledge, the Arab world. We extend previous findings both geographically and substantively to show that a range of social and demographic variables account for important variation in response scale use in the dom…
Old Media, New Narratives
In 1959, a Danish anthropological expedition to Qatar created hundreds of photographs and a 16-minute film depicting the diversity of Qatari lifestyles, which included strong evidence of a Bedouin past, separate from the merchant and pearl-diving culture of the coast. However, Qatar’s new national museum, still under development, has been working on a different narrative: a more unified national identity that emphasizes the similarities of Qatari…
Blockade
The online public sphere, and the ways in which its digital media platforms influence discourse, is a crucial but understudied area of research in the six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Through a case study of the ongoing Gulf diplomatic crisis, which began in June 2017, this essay draws on the disciplines of political science, communication, and digital media studies to analyze qualitative examples of digital discourse: the role of women, …
What Money Can’t Buy
How do perceived inequalities in allocation impact citizen satisfaction with state-distributed benefits in rentier societies? Resource-rich rentier regimes are widely theorized to maintain the economic and political satisfaction of subjects through wealth distribution. Yet, while qualitative research in the rentier states of the Arabian Peninsula has identified unequal distribution as a source of discontent, the relative importance of objective v…
Nationalism and Identity in Qatar after 2017
How are nationalism and national identity shifting in Qatar as a result of the regional crisis? This study explores whether this moment of geopolitical fluidity allows for changes in sociocultural behavior and norms among Qatari citizens. Specifically, this research uses the case study of the newly opened National Museum of Qatar to examine a state-crafted narrative of national identity and society’s response to this narrative. Our original field…
Return to the Isle of Ted
This article modifies the classic “Isle of Ted” simulation to teach students about the collective action problems associated with climate change. Modifications include the introduction of a common-pool resource (i.e., fish) and increased pirate attacks to model rising climate threats and unequal distribution of risk. A return to the Isle of Ted enables a deeper engagement with specific collective action problems of climate change, including the t…
Women reporters as experts on security affairs in Jordan? Rethinking gender and issue competency stereotypes
Research on gender and issue competency stereotypes frequently deems security affairs a “stereotypically masculine” domain. Traditionally, men are seen as more credible authorities in arenas such as crime and the military, while women are assumed to be more credible in “stereotypically feminine” ones like childcare and health. But women’s roles in politics, media, and other influential sectors are rapidly changing in the Mediterranean and MENA re…
Transnational identity and the Gulf crisis
What does the recent Gulf diplomatic crisis of June 2017 to January 2021 mean for the future of the region's signature transnationalism: the khalījī [Gulf] identity? This identity narrative encompasses the shared sociocultural backgrounds of the people of the region, but the unprecedented separations, caused by the regional crisis, may have shifted the discourse of belonging in the Gulf. To investigate the impact of the recent crisis on regional …
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
While institutional support is growing for women in leadership positions across the Arab world, little is known about how rising numbers of women in roles of authority and expertise are being perceived. We examine how general theories of gender bias fit new data from a survey experiment spanning nationally representative samples in five Arab countries. The experiment captured how citizens judge women who adopt the stereotypically masculine role o…
The Curious Case of the Missing Bedouin in the National Museum of Qatar
Social Desirability and Political Sensitivity
Survey research is growing, yet research on data quality continues to rely mainly on samples from the United States and Europe. To contribute, we test for interviewer gender effects on men in the Middle East and North Africa, where studies of data quality are particularly scarce. Theoretically, we focus on the implications of less gender-egalitarian contexts for response tendencies. For questions about politics and government, we find that men re…
Political science (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (7 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)