Neilan S Chaturvedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neilan S Chaturvedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neilan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaturvedi |
| SIGNATURE | CHATURVEDI N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5378-8231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding Responses to Global Terrorism
Objectives Building on theories of social identity and ethnocentrism, this study asks whether Americans express stronger empathy and greater support for the use of force, intervention, and enhanced interrogation when victims of terrorism are culturally similar to themselves. Methods Using an original survey experiment, participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a control story, a news story describing a terrorist attack in Is…
A Social Theory of Congress
Alexander, Brian. A Social Theory of Congress: Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 200 Pages. $95 (Hardcover); $39.99 (Softcover)." Congress & the Presidency, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Strategic position taking
In this paper, we test the optimal position taking strategy for senators running for reelection vis-à-vis their party’s president. Using data from a survey experiment conducted using a national sample, we examine the responses towards three hypothetical Democrats: (i) ‘embracing’ or supportive of Barack Obama (ii.) ambiguous about their attitude towards Obama (iii.) ‘eschewing’ or opposed to Obama. Comparing participants exposed to the ambiguous …
Polls and Elections
Presidential candidates provide a boost to their congressional candidate counterparts, in which congressional candidates should ride the proverbial coattails into office (Campbell and Sumners 1990; Stewart 1989). The 2016 election, however, provides an instance in which the presidential coattails were less than desirable. In this article, we argue that state politics determines the optimal strategy for how candidates should position themselves vi…
Filling the Amendment Tree
Harry Reid is often lauded by fellow Democrats as one of the most powerful Senate Majority leaders in modern history. One tactic that he used to usher in legislation was a parliamentary procedure known as “Filling the Amendment Tree.” Amendment trees are diagrams that demonstrate the amendment process for legislation, but Reid often limited the number of amendments that could be offered on a piece of legislation using this procedure. From the maj…
Kings of the Hill? An Examination of Centrist Behavior in the U.S. Senate
Objectives Spatial voting literature on Congress indicates that the most powerful members are the ones who sit in the ideological center. This study examines how pivotal voters use that power in their participation in Congress. Methods This study examines two modes of congressional participation on two highly salient health‐care bills—the filing of amendments and the delivery of floor speeches. Results This study finds that pivotal voters shy awa…
Targeting the Treatment
Lyndon Johnson woke up studying whip counts, went to bed reading the Congressional Record, and invested countless hours in between translating that political intelligence into a lobbying offensive. The result, famously christened “The Johnson Treatment,” remains the archetype practitioners and political scientists cite when appraising presidential leadership on Capitol Hill. Yet Beltway folklore aside, we know little about how LBJ helped forge wi…
Evaluating Asian American Representation through Bill Sponsors and Cosponsors from 1999 to 2009
Do representatives react to small yet emerging minority groups? Racial and ethnic representation scholarship finds that descriptive representation leads to better substantive representation. Furthermore, the subconstituency politics theory states that elected officials represent only politically active numerical minorities. Asian Americans, a relatively small ethnic minority group in the United States, suffer from poor descriptive representation …
The next generation? A reexamination of religious influence on Mexican-American attitudes toward same-sex marriage
This article examines Mexican-American political attitudes on same-sex marriage (SSM). This article makes a significant contribution to the study of Latino politics by examining generational influences and reexamining the effects of religious preference on Mexican-American attitudes on SSM. Using data from the Pew Hispanic Forum in 2006 on religion, I find that Mexican-Americans in later generational cohorts (i.e., the second generation and beyon…
Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World
Of the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy i…
The next generation? A reexamination of religious influence on Mexican-American attitudes toward same-sex marriage
This article examines Mexican-American political attitudes on same-sex marriage (SSM). This article makes a significant contribution to the study of Latino politics by examining generational influences and reexamining the effects of religious preference on Mexican-American attitudes on SSM. Using data from the Pew Hispanic Forum in 2006 on religion, I find that Mexican-Americans in later generational cohorts (i.e., the second generation and beyon…
Targeting the Treatment
Lyndon Johnson woke up studying whip counts, went to bed reading the Congressional Record, and invested countless hours in between translating that political intelligence into a lobbying offensive. The result, famously christened “The Johnson Treatment,” remains the archetype practitioners and political scientists cite when appraising presidential leadership on Capitol Hill. Yet Beltway folklore aside, we know little about how LBJ helped forge wi…
Evaluating Asian American Representation through Bill Sponsors and Cosponsors from 1999 to 2009
Do representatives react to small yet emerging minority groups? Racial and ethnic representation scholarship finds that descriptive representation leads to better substantive representation. Furthermore, the subconstituency politics theory states that elected officials represent only politically active numerical minorities. Asian Americans, a relatively small ethnic minority group in the United States, suffer from poor descriptive representation …
Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World
Of the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy i…
A Social Theory of Congress
Alexander, Brian. A Social Theory of Congress: Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 200 Pages. $95 (Hardcover); $39.99 (Softcover)." Congress & the Presidency, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Polls and Elections
Presidential candidates provide a boost to their congressional candidate counterparts, in which congressional candidates should ride the proverbial coattails into office (Campbell and Sumners 1990; Stewart 1989). The 2016 election, however, provides an instance in which the presidential coattails were less than desirable. In this article, we argue that state politics determines the optimal strategy for how candidates should position themselves vi…
Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World
Of the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy i…
The next generation? A reexamination of religious influence on Mexican-American attitudes toward same-sex marriage
This article examines Mexican-American political attitudes on same-sex marriage (SSM). This article makes a significant contribution to the study of Latino politics by examining generational influences and reexamining the effects of religious preference on Mexican-American attitudes on SSM. Using data from the Pew Hispanic Forum in 2006 on religion, I find that Mexican-Americans in later generational cohorts (i.e., the second generation and beyon…
Evaluating Asian American Representation through Bill Sponsors and Cosponsors from 1999 to 2009
Do representatives react to small yet emerging minority groups? Racial and ethnic representation scholarship finds that descriptive representation leads to better substantive representation. Furthermore, the subconstituency politics theory states that elected officials represent only politically active numerical minorities. Asian Americans, a relatively small ethnic minority group in the United States, suffer from poor descriptive representation …
Filling the Amendment Tree
Harry Reid is often lauded by fellow Democrats as one of the most powerful Senate Majority leaders in modern history. One tactic that he used to usher in legislation was a parliamentary procedure known as “Filling the Amendment Tree.” Amendment trees are diagrams that demonstrate the amendment process for legislation, but Reid often limited the number of amendments that could be offered on a piece of legislation using this procedure. From the maj…
Kings of the Hill? An Examination of Centrist Behavior in the U.S. Senate
Objectives Spatial voting literature on Congress indicates that the most powerful members are the ones who sit in the ideological center. This study examines how pivotal voters use that power in their participation in Congress. Methods This study examines two modes of congressional participation on two highly salient health‐care bills—the filing of amendments and the delivery of floor speeches. Results This study finds that pivotal voters shy awa…
Targeting the Treatment
Lyndon Johnson woke up studying whip counts, went to bed reading the Congressional Record, and invested countless hours in between translating that political intelligence into a lobbying offensive. The result, famously christened “The Johnson Treatment,” remains the archetype practitioners and political scientists cite when appraising presidential leadership on Capitol Hill. Yet Beltway folklore aside, we know little about how LBJ helped forge wi…
Polls and Elections
Presidential candidates provide a boost to their congressional candidate counterparts, in which congressional candidates should ride the proverbial coattails into office (Campbell and Sumners 1990; Stewart 1989). The 2016 election, however, provides an instance in which the presidential coattails were less than desirable. In this article, we argue that state politics determines the optimal strategy for how candidates should position themselves vi…
Strategic position taking
In this paper, we test the optimal position taking strategy for senators running for reelection vis-à-vis their party’s president. Using data from a survey experiment conducted using a national sample, we examine the responses towards three hypothetical Democrats: (i) ‘embracing’ or supportive of Barack Obama (ii.) ambiguous about their attitude towards Obama (iii.) ‘eschewing’ or opposed to Obama. Comparing participants exposed to the ambiguous …
A Social Theory of Congress
Alexander, Brian. A Social Theory of Congress: Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 200 Pages. $95 (Hardcover); $39.99 (Softcover)." Congress & the Presidency, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Understanding Responses to Global Terrorism
Objectives Building on theories of social identity and ethnocentrism, this study asks whether Americans express stronger empathy and greater support for the use of force, intervention, and enhanced interrogation when victims of terrorism are culturally similar to themselves. Methods Using an original survey experiment, participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a control story, a news story describing a terrorist attack in Is…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Legislature (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Public Administration (3 works)