Regina Lea Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regina Lea Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regina Lea |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3846-7899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The power of the leader: Party approval and institutional trust
Unprecedented in American politics, several Republican US Representatives, supported by former President Trump, led a motion in the House to remove the Speaker, providing an ideal case for understanding a strong leader’s control over the party base, conflation with the party brand, and ramifications for the health of the US party system. Leveraging this unique event, we conducted an original survey experiment of registered Republican voters to an…
The Importance of Context: Local and National Explanations of Partisan Realignment
Partisan and electoral shifts and realignments have played a central role in political science research for many decades. But what was once dominated by a focus on local contexts and occurrences has over time become more and more nationalized in its approach. Stephanie Ternullo's important new book How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics brings the importance of contexts back to the table with a conv…
Introduction: Gender and Partisan Polarization in the Modern Political World
In the years since the 2016 presidential election, questions of partisan identity and partisan polarization have burst into broader public discourse, and they have invariably been intertwined with curiosity about gender and gendered behavior, especially as it relates to partisanship and voting. What is women’s role in creating and sustaining the current political moment, or is politics as we experience it today shaped entirely by and for men? Pol…
Prologue to 2024
Electoral contests in presidential years bring out a plethora of analyses of the specifics of the contest, enriched by assertions about the unprecedented character of whatever has just happened. Yet the same contests are more or less automatically the register of an ongoing, shaping context for the ultimate result. This paper is an effort to tease out these basic background influences in advance, while demonstrating both their continuity and thei…
Misreporting: Social Scientists, Political Commentators, and the Politics of Presidential Selection
A familiar framework for interpreting the politics of presidential nomination, built on an accumulating body of social science research plus the extended observations of experienced commentators, received remarkably little use in the day-to-day reportage of the Democratic and Republican contests of 2016 and 2020 as they unfolded. So this paper begins by sketching out the factional structure of the modern Democratic and Republican parties, along w…
Invisible Forces: How Contextual Receptiveness to Women Shapes Women’s Representation in the US House
Recent political events, ranging from the 2016 presidential election to the "Women's March on Washington," have brought women's interests and their representation in the political process to the forefront. Political representation, however, is a complex and nuanced process, and legislator time and energy are finite resources. Which contextual factors and personal characteristics then make legislators decide to focus their representational activit…
The Trump Presidency and the Structure of Modern American Politics
How much of politics is specific to its actors and how much is the reflection of an established structure is a perennial concern of political analysts, one that becomes especially intense with the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. In order to have a template for assigning the outcomes of politics to structure rather than idiosyncrasy, we begin with party balance, ideological polarization, substantive content, and a resulting proc…
Affirmations for an Aging Electoral Order: The Mid-Term Elections of 2018
At bottom, the election of 2018 produced one more iteration of an electoral order dominating American politics since 1992. So the main task of this paper is to elicit the structure of that order, drop the results of 2018 into it, and see how well those results fit. The key micro-analytic tools for approaching any election did work well in 2018, but cannot distinguish this election from other recent contests. The common journalistic focus on idios…
The Great Revolt – Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
Modern Eras and Alternative Futures: The American Elections of 2016 in the Longest Run
On the morning after, the aggregate story of the American elections of 2016 was one of surprise. Professional pundits – not to mention the pollsters, those masters of disaggregation – had been rather strikingly wrong. So, one of the major products of the elections of 2016 was a major research project for these professional disaggregators. But can those who treat elections as aggregate phenomena – as patterned wins and losses across time – fit the…
The 2014 Midterm in the Longest Run: The Puzzle of a Modern Era
Comparisons across even the longest time-span cannot foretell the future. What they can do is generate the available analogies to what has just happened, isolate the patterned outcomes that have preceded it over time, and locate the current outcome in the most recent sequence of results. Accordingly, this article begins with the contests that received the most attention in 2014 – and were consensually regarded as the most consequential – namely t…
The Trump Presidency and the Structure of Modern American Politics
How much of politics is specific to its actors and how much is the reflection of an established structure is a perennial concern of political analysts, one that becomes especially intense with the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. In order to have a template for assigning the outcomes of politics to structure rather than idiosyncrasy, we begin with party balance, ideological polarization, substantive content, and a resulting proc…
Invisible Forces: How Contextual Receptiveness to Women Shapes Women’s Representation in the US House
Recent political events, ranging from the 2016 presidential election to the "Women's March on Washington," have brought women's interests and their representation in the political process to the forefront. Political representation, however, is a complex and nuanced process, and legislator time and energy are finite resources. Which contextual factors and personal characteristics then make legislators decide to focus their representational activit…
Affirmations for an Aging Electoral Order: The Mid-Term Elections of 2018
At bottom, the election of 2018 produced one more iteration of an electoral order dominating American politics since 1992. So the main task of this paper is to elicit the structure of that order, drop the results of 2018 into it, and see how well those results fit. The key micro-analytic tools for approaching any election did work well in 2018, but cannot distinguish this election from other recent contests. The common journalistic focus on idios…
The 2014 Midterm in the Longest Run: The Puzzle of a Modern Era
Comparisons across even the longest time-span cannot foretell the future. What they can do is generate the available analogies to what has just happened, isolate the patterned outcomes that have preceded it over time, and locate the current outcome in the most recent sequence of results. Accordingly, this article begins with the contests that received the most attention in 2014 – and were consensually regarded as the most consequential – namely t…
Modern Eras and Alternative Futures: The American Elections of 2016 in the Longest Run
On the morning after, the aggregate story of the American elections of 2016 was one of surprise. Professional pundits – not to mention the pollsters, those masters of disaggregation – had been rather strikingly wrong. So, one of the major products of the elections of 2016 was a major research project for these professional disaggregators. But can those who treat elections as aggregate phenomena – as patterned wins and losses across time – fit the…
Affirmations for an Aging Electoral Order: The Mid-Term Elections of 2018
At bottom, the election of 2018 produced one more iteration of an electoral order dominating American politics since 1992. So the main task of this paper is to elicit the structure of that order, drop the results of 2018 into it, and see how well those results fit. The key micro-analytic tools for approaching any election did work well in 2018, but cannot distinguish this election from other recent contests. The common journalistic focus on idios…
The Great Revolt – Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
Invisible Forces: How Contextual Receptiveness to Women Shapes Women’s Representation in the US House
Recent political events, ranging from the 2016 presidential election to the "Women's March on Washington," have brought women's interests and their representation in the political process to the forefront. Political representation, however, is a complex and nuanced process, and legislator time and energy are finite resources. Which contextual factors and personal characteristics then make legislators decide to focus their representational activit…
The Trump Presidency and the Structure of Modern American Politics
How much of politics is specific to its actors and how much is the reflection of an established structure is a perennial concern of political analysts, one that becomes especially intense with the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. In order to have a template for assigning the outcomes of politics to structure rather than idiosyncrasy, we begin with party balance, ideological polarization, substantive content, and a resulting proc…
Misreporting: Social Scientists, Political Commentators, and the Politics of Presidential Selection
A familiar framework for interpreting the politics of presidential nomination, built on an accumulating body of social science research plus the extended observations of experienced commentators, received remarkably little use in the day-to-day reportage of the Democratic and Republican contests of 2016 and 2020 as they unfolded. So this paper begins by sketching out the factional structure of the modern Democratic and Republican parties, along w…
Prologue to 2024
Electoral contests in presidential years bring out a plethora of analyses of the specifics of the contest, enriched by assertions about the unprecedented character of whatever has just happened. Yet the same contests are more or less automatically the register of an ongoing, shaping context for the ultimate result. This paper is an effort to tease out these basic background influences in advance, while demonstrating both their continuity and thei…
The power of the leader: Party approval and institutional trust
Unprecedented in American politics, several Republican US Representatives, supported by former President Trump, led a motion in the House to remove the Speaker, providing an ideal case for understanding a strong leader’s control over the party base, conflation with the party brand, and ramifications for the health of the US party system. Leveraging this unique event, we conducted an original survey experiment of registered Republican voters to an…
The Importance of Context: Local and National Explanations of Partisan Realignment
Partisan and electoral shifts and realignments have played a central role in political science research for many decades. But what was once dominated by a focus on local contexts and occurrences has over time become more and more nationalized in its approach. Stephanie Ternullo's important new book How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics brings the importance of contexts back to the table with a conv…
Introduction: Gender and Partisan Polarization in the Modern Political World
In the years since the 2016 presidential election, questions of partisan identity and partisan polarization have burst into broader public discourse, and they have invariably been intertwined with curiosity about gender and gendered behavior, especially as it relates to partisanship and voting. What is women’s role in creating and sustaining the current political moment, or is politics as we experience it today shaped entirely by and for men? Pol…
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