Ryan Strickler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Strickler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Strickler |
| SIGNATURE | STRICKLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University Pueblo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6082-6280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Perspective Getting and Cross-Party Support for Electoral Fairness
Productivity matters: Legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability
Surveys show that U.S. voters detest Congressional gridlock and desire greater legislative productivity. However, incumbents are rarely voted out. I argue that this lack of electoral accountability is driven in part by an information lacuna as to what extent individual representatives are working to move legislation forward. Through a series of survey experiments, I find that respondents reduce support for representatives when given information d…
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States
A defining feature of democracies is an independent legal system, where elites and the public alike accept the broader legitimacy of its actions, even if they run counter to political preferences. Existing scholarship suggests that public support for rule of law institutions is rooted in perceptions of procedural fairness. However, amid increasing levels of affective polarization, we posit a partisan presidential heuristic wherein citizens’ views…
Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S
Although restricting formal voting rights—voter suppression—is not uncommon in democracies, its incidence and form vary widely. Intuitively, when competing elites believe that the benefits of reducing voting by opponents outweigh the costs of voter suppression, it is more likely to occur. Internal political and state capacity and external actors, however, influence the form that voter suppression takes. When elites competing for office lack the a…
Racial conservatism, self-monitoring, and perceptions of police violence
A sharp racial divide in attitudes towards the police has been a mainstay throughout US history. The divide has come to the fore in recent years due to a number of high-profile police shooting incidents, such as the 2014 death of Michael Brown. This paper examines how whites and African-Americans differ in their perception of such incidents, as well as how the race of the officer and victim involved influence these perceptions. Across multiple da…
Deliberate with the Enemy? Polarization, Social Identity, and Attitudes toward Disagreement
As of late, political theory, research, and practice have taken a deliberative turn, extolling the benefits of idealized public discourse. This paper explores how mass polarization impacts the preconditions for such discourse. Drawing from social identity theory, partisanship is conceptualized as having distinct, yet interrelated social and ideological dimensions. Through both online and telephone-based survey experiments, the paper then examines…
A “Sorted” America? Geographic Polarization and Value Overlap in the American Electorate
Objective Geographic political polarization is an increasingly salient topic of academic and popular discourse. Using Bill Bishop's bestseller The Big Sort as a foil, this article tests the claim that America has split into “ideologically inbred” “red” and “blue” communities. Method Drawing on Bishop's concept of “landslide” Democratic and Republican counties, the article uses survey data to measure the overlap in opinion between respondents from…
Deliberate with the Enemy? Polarization, Social Identity, and Attitudes toward Disagreement
As of late, political theory, research, and practice have taken a deliberative turn, extolling the benefits of idealized public discourse. This paper explores how mass polarization impacts the preconditions for such discourse. Drawing from social identity theory, partisanship is conceptualized as having distinct, yet interrelated social and ideological dimensions. Through both online and telephone-based survey experiments, the paper then examines…
Racial conservatism, self-monitoring, and perceptions of police violence
A sharp racial divide in attitudes towards the police has been a mainstay throughout US history. The divide has come to the fore in recent years due to a number of high-profile police shooting incidents, such as the 2014 death of Michael Brown. This paper examines how whites and African-Americans differ in their perception of such incidents, as well as how the race of the officer and victim involved influence these perceptions. Across multiple da…
A “Sorted” America? Geographic Polarization and Value Overlap in the American Electorate
Objective Geographic political polarization is an increasingly salient topic of academic and popular discourse. Using Bill Bishop's bestseller The Big Sort as a foil, this article tests the claim that America has split into “ideologically inbred” “red” and “blue” communities. Method Drawing on Bishop's concept of “landslide” Democratic and Republican counties, the article uses survey data to measure the overlap in opinion between respondents from…
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States
A defining feature of democracies is an independent legal system, where elites and the public alike accept the broader legitimacy of its actions, even if they run counter to political preferences. Existing scholarship suggests that public support for rule of law institutions is rooted in perceptions of procedural fairness. However, amid increasing levels of affective polarization, we posit a partisan presidential heuristic wherein citizens’ views…
A “Sorted” America? Geographic Polarization and Value Overlap in the American Electorate
Objective Geographic political polarization is an increasingly salient topic of academic and popular discourse. Using Bill Bishop's bestseller The Big Sort as a foil, this article tests the claim that America has split into “ideologically inbred” “red” and “blue” communities. Method Drawing on Bishop's concept of “landslide” Democratic and Republican counties, the article uses survey data to measure the overlap in opinion between respondents from…
Deliberate with the Enemy? Polarization, Social Identity, and Attitudes toward Disagreement
As of late, political theory, research, and practice have taken a deliberative turn, extolling the benefits of idealized public discourse. This paper explores how mass polarization impacts the preconditions for such discourse. Drawing from social identity theory, partisanship is conceptualized as having distinct, yet interrelated social and ideological dimensions. Through both online and telephone-based survey experiments, the paper then examines…
Rule by Violence, Rule by Law: Lynching, Jim Crow, and the Continuing Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S
Although restricting formal voting rights—voter suppression—is not uncommon in democracies, its incidence and form vary widely. Intuitively, when competing elites believe that the benefits of reducing voting by opponents outweigh the costs of voter suppression, it is more likely to occur. Internal political and state capacity and external actors, however, influence the form that voter suppression takes. When elites competing for office lack the a…
Racial conservatism, self-monitoring, and perceptions of police violence
A sharp racial divide in attitudes towards the police has been a mainstay throughout US history. The divide has come to the fore in recent years due to a number of high-profile police shooting incidents, such as the 2014 death of Michael Brown. This paper examines how whites and African-Americans differ in their perception of such incidents, as well as how the race of the officer and victim involved influence these perceptions. Across multiple da…
Productivity matters: Legislative effectiveness, bipartisanship, and electoral accountability
Surveys show that U.S. voters detest Congressional gridlock and desire greater legislative productivity. However, incumbents are rarely voted out. I argue that this lack of electoral accountability is driven in part by an information lacuna as to what extent individual representatives are working to move legislation forward. Through a series of survey experiments, I find that respondents reduce support for representatives when given information d…
The Rule of Law in Red and Blue: Affective Polarization and Support for Legal Institutions in the United States
A defining feature of democracies is an independent legal system, where elites and the public alike accept the broader legitimacy of its actions, even if they run counter to political preferences. Existing scholarship suggests that public support for rule of law institutions is rooted in perceptions of procedural fairness. However, amid increasing levels of affective polarization, we posit a partisan presidential heuristic wherein citizens’ views…
Perspective Getting and Cross-Party Support for Electoral Fairness
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)