Sarah K Dreier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah K Dreier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah K |
| FAMILY NAME | Dreier |
| SIGNATURE | DREIER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7075-691X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rationalizing backsliding: Internment in Northern Ireland
Troubles in Text: Using Natural Language Processing to Recognize Government Rationalizations for Rights Abuses
The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education
Both undergraduate students and faculty members face a challenging job market that requires innovative approaches to skill development and research products. Moreover, entrenched approaches to research and education reinforce traditional hierarchies, exclusionary norms, and exploitative practices. This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning and, simultaneously, to attenu…
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism
How do race and/or religion shape news media coverage of mass shooters and whether media associate mass shooters with terrorism? This article combines natural language processing (NLP), statistical analysis of U.S. mass shooting events (1990–2016) and an in-depth case-study comparison to evaluate whether media exhibit patterns in how they frame mass shooters from different racial and/or religious groups. First, we use NLP to target and model the …
Dangers, Toils, and Snares: U.S. Senators' Rhetoric of Public Insecurity and Religiosity
How, and in what contexts, do U.S. senators publicly invoke religious rhetoric when engaging with their constituents? Do periods of heightened public anxiety make senators more likely to use religious rhetoric? We use the Internet Archive's 90-terabyte collection of material from the U.S. government's Internet domain (.gov) to evaluate the relationships between insecurity, anxiety, and religious rhetoric on senators' official websites. We estimat…
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity
Grounded in social-contractual ideas about relationships between the governed and those who govern, the provision of social benefits to citizens has historically been predicated on expectations of acquiescence to state authority. However, the rapid expansion of noncontributory social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, often supported by global donors through technical assistance programs, raises myriad questions about the relationship between soci…
Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior
The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain (‘.gov’). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science research. This study leverages this archive to measure a novel dimension of federal legislators' religiosity: their proportional use of religious rhetoric on official congressional websites (2006…
African, Religious, and Tolerant? How Religious Diversity Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities in Africa
Despite trends towards greater LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) rights in industrialized democracies, the rights of sexual minorities have become increasingly politicized and restricted throughout Africa. Recognizing religion's central role in shaping attitudes toward gays and lesbians, we hypothesize that local religious diversity could expose individuals to alternative religious perspectives, engender tolerance toward marg…
Institutional legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
How do personal encounters with legal institutions shape citizens’ confidence in those institutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa? Using Afrobarometer’s cross-national citizen survey, we show that negative first-hand experiences with government courts and police erode citizens’ trust in those state institutions but do not tend to disrupt citizens’ perceptions of their authority to arbitrate or enforce the law. Individuals from diverse demographic…
Evaluating ballot initiative support for legalised marijuana: The case of Washington
Partisan Attitudes toward Sanctuary Cities: The Asymmetrical Effects of Political Knowledge
Sanctuary city policies seek to protect undocumented community members from federal detention or deportation. Debates over sanctuary cities have become increasingly prominent and partisan in American politics. Republicans accuse sanctuary cities of enabling crime, while Democrats laud them for protecting communities from rights violations. Despite partisan salience, we have little information about peoples’ substantive knowledge of sanctuary poli…
Resisting Rights to Renounce Imperialism: East African Churches’ Strategic Symbolic Resistance to LGBTQ Inclusion
When American Anglican and Lutheran churches elected to ordain same-sex partnered clergy, nearly all African counterparts either denounced LGBTQ inclusion or entirely dissociated from their bilateral partners. Why did these disagreements over domestic policies introduce transnational schisms, and what explains this variation? I argue that East African churches responded to bilateral partners' LGBTQ inclusion by adopting a strategy of symbolic res…
Resisting Rights to Renounce Imperialism: East African Churches’ Strategic Symbolic Resistance to LGBTQ Inclusion
When American Anglican and Lutheran churches elected to ordain same-sex partnered clergy, nearly all African counterparts either denounced LGBTQ inclusion or entirely dissociated from their bilateral partners. Why did these disagreements over domestic policies introduce transnational schisms, and what explains this variation? I argue that East African churches responded to bilateral partners' LGBTQ inclusion by adopting a strategy of symbolic res…
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity
Grounded in social-contractual ideas about relationships between the governed and those who govern, the provision of social benefits to citizens has historically been predicated on expectations of acquiescence to state authority. However, the rapid expansion of noncontributory social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, often supported by global donors through technical assistance programs, raises myriad questions about the relationship between soci…
African, Religious, and Tolerant? How Religious Diversity Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities in Africa
Despite trends towards greater LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) rights in industrialized democracies, the rights of sexual minorities have become increasingly politicized and restricted throughout Africa. Recognizing religion's central role in shaping attitudes toward gays and lesbians, we hypothesize that local religious diversity could expose individuals to alternative religious perspectives, engender tolerance toward marg…
Institutional legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
How do personal encounters with legal institutions shape citizens’ confidence in those institutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa? Using Afrobarometer’s cross-national citizen survey, we show that negative first-hand experiences with government courts and police erode citizens’ trust in those state institutions but do not tend to disrupt citizens’ perceptions of their authority to arbitrate or enforce the law. Individuals from diverse demographic…
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism
How do race and/or religion shape news media coverage of mass shooters and whether media associate mass shooters with terrorism? This article combines natural language processing (NLP), statistical analysis of U.S. mass shooting events (1990–2016) and an in-depth case-study comparison to evaluate whether media exhibit patterns in how they frame mass shooters from different racial and/or religious groups. First, we use NLP to target and model the …
Partisan Attitudes toward Sanctuary Cities: The Asymmetrical Effects of Political Knowledge
Sanctuary city policies seek to protect undocumented community members from federal detention or deportation. Debates over sanctuary cities have become increasingly prominent and partisan in American politics. Republicans accuse sanctuary cities of enabling crime, while Democrats laud them for protecting communities from rights violations. Despite partisan salience, we have little information about peoples’ substantive knowledge of sanctuary poli…
Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior
The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain (‘.gov’). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science research. This study leverages this archive to measure a novel dimension of federal legislators' religiosity: their proportional use of religious rhetoric on official congressional websites (2006…
Dangers, Toils, and Snares: U.S. Senators' Rhetoric of Public Insecurity and Religiosity
How, and in what contexts, do U.S. senators publicly invoke religious rhetoric when engaging with their constituents? Do periods of heightened public anxiety make senators more likely to use religious rhetoric? We use the Internet Archive's 90-terabyte collection of material from the U.S. government's Internet domain (.gov) to evaluate the relationships between insecurity, anxiety, and religious rhetoric on senators' official websites. We estimat…
Evaluating ballot initiative support for legalised marijuana: The case of Washington
Partisan Attitudes toward Sanctuary Cities: The Asymmetrical Effects of Political Knowledge
Sanctuary city policies seek to protect undocumented community members from federal detention or deportation. Debates over sanctuary cities have become increasingly prominent and partisan in American politics. Republicans accuse sanctuary cities of enabling crime, while Democrats laud them for protecting communities from rights violations. Despite partisan salience, we have little information about peoples’ substantive knowledge of sanctuary poli…
Resisting Rights to Renounce Imperialism: East African Churches’ Strategic Symbolic Resistance to LGBTQ Inclusion
When American Anglican and Lutheran churches elected to ordain same-sex partnered clergy, nearly all African counterparts either denounced LGBTQ inclusion or entirely dissociated from their bilateral partners. Why did these disagreements over domestic policies introduce transnational schisms, and what explains this variation? I argue that East African churches responded to bilateral partners' LGBTQ inclusion by adopting a strategy of symbolic res…
Institutional legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
How do personal encounters with legal institutions shape citizens’ confidence in those institutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa? Using Afrobarometer’s cross-national citizen survey, we show that negative first-hand experiences with government courts and police erode citizens’ trust in those state institutions but do not tend to disrupt citizens’ perceptions of their authority to arbitrate or enforce the law. Individuals from diverse demographic…
African, Religious, and Tolerant? How Religious Diversity Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities in Africa
Despite trends towards greater LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) rights in industrialized democracies, the rights of sexual minorities have become increasingly politicized and restricted throughout Africa. Recognizing religion's central role in shaping attitudes toward gays and lesbians, we hypothesize that local religious diversity could expose individuals to alternative religious perspectives, engender tolerance toward marg…
Dangers, Toils, and Snares: U.S. Senators' Rhetoric of Public Insecurity and Religiosity
How, and in what contexts, do U.S. senators publicly invoke religious rhetoric when engaging with their constituents? Do periods of heightened public anxiety make senators more likely to use religious rhetoric? We use the Internet Archive's 90-terabyte collection of material from the U.S. government's Internet domain (.gov) to evaluate the relationships between insecurity, anxiety, and religious rhetoric on senators' official websites. We estimat…
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity
Grounded in social-contractual ideas about relationships between the governed and those who govern, the provision of social benefits to citizens has historically been predicated on expectations of acquiescence to state authority. However, the rapid expansion of noncontributory social assistance in sub-Saharan Africa, often supported by global donors through technical assistance programs, raises myriad questions about the relationship between soci…
Archived Attributes: An Internet-Text Approach to Measuring Legislator Attitudes and Behavior
The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain (‘.gov’). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science research. This study leverages this archive to measure a novel dimension of federal legislators' religiosity: their proportional use of religious rhetoric on official congressional websites (2006…
Patterns of Bias: How Mainstream Media Operationalize Links between Mass Shootings and Terrorism
How do race and/or religion shape news media coverage of mass shooters and whether media associate mass shooters with terrorism? This article combines natural language processing (NLP), statistical analysis of U.S. mass shooting events (1990–2016) and an in-depth case-study comparison to evaluate whether media exhibit patterns in how they frame mass shooters from different racial and/or religious groups. First, we use NLP to target and model the …
The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education
Both undergraduate students and faculty members face a challenging job market that requires innovative approaches to skill development and research products. Moreover, entrenched approaches to research and education reinforce traditional hierarchies, exclusionary norms, and exploitative practices. This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning and, simultaneously, to attenu…
Troubles in Text: Using Natural Language Processing to Recognize Government Rationalizations for Rights Abuses
Rationalizing backsliding: Internment in Northern Ireland
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works) · History (3 works)