R Branton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Branton |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Branton |
| SIGNATURE | BRANTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0684-5958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1021 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Mail Voting as a Tool to Avoid Voter Intimidation and Hate Crimes
In this study, we examine if and how exposure to hate crimes is associated with the method of vote utilized by African American voters in the 2016 general election. Specifically, we are interested in how exposure to heightened levels of hate crimes at the county-level influences African Americans’ decision to vote-by-mail (VBM) as opposed to in-person (either early or election day voting). We examine the question using the 2016 Collaborative Mult…
Native American Political Trust
Research on Native Americans’ trust in both the U.S. federal and tribal governments is limited. While existing studies suggest Native Americans have lower trust in the federal government and higher trust in tribal governments, they often overlook the individual factors shaping this trust especially as many Native Americans no longer live on or near reservations. Using data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Political Survey, this study explo…
US Attorney Declination Rates of Tribal Cases: Resources Matter
This study examines the factors that influence the use of declination powers by U.S. Attorney Offices (USAO) in Indian Country (IC) cases. The research aims to shed light on the tribal law enforcement factors that influence the actions of USAOs in IC cases. The study utilizes the “National Caseload Data” to identify crimes that occurred in IC and whether the USAO declined to prosecute a case. The findings suggest tribes with larger law enforcemen…
Grave Acts: The Relationship between Contextual Exposure to Police Killings and Black Political Participation
There has been growing scholarly attention to the relationship between contextual exposure to police killings and political engagement. Recent studies offer mixed findings. Some studies show local exposure to police killings increase both voting and protest activity, while other work suggests such exposure represses political activity. In this study, we contend that the relationship of police killings to Black political activity varies depending …
Proximity, Perceived Costs and Benefits, and Public Support for Indian Gaming
The introduction of Indian gaming has offered a new path for economic development, allowing gaming nations to achieve greater self-sufficiency. The benefits of gaming have also extended beyond the boundary of Indian nations as adjacent communities benefit from the demand created by Indian casinos. As Indian gaming expands, it is important to consider how the public perceives this form of Native American economic development. Herein, we examine pu…
The Impact of Incumbent Race/Ethnicity and Challenger Experience on White Evaluations of Competency and Integrity
Does race/ethnicity or qualifications matter more in White evaluations of U.S. House Democratic Members of Congress (MC) and their opposing Republican candidates? This study examines White perceptions of competence and integrity as a function of the race/ethnicity of the Democratic MC and the prior experience of the Republican challenger utilizing the 2010 CCES “Common Content” survey, after controlling for the propensity to evaluate the perceive…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Attitudes Regarding the Government's Role in Addressing Economic Inequality
We examine factors that explain differences in opinions among Asian Americans and Latinos regarding the government's responsibility in addressing economic inequality. We utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variations in attitudes about the role the government should play in addressing the differences in income between people with high and low incomes. We use ordered logit models to assess 2020 Collaborative Multira…
What factors drive trust in police after civil wars: The case of Colombia
We know that civil wars have negative and long-term consequences for public trust in state institutions. However, few studies have examined the post-peace challenges of rebuilding trust in state institutions. In this study, we utilise the case of Colombia to explore the impact of civil wars on the institutional trust of the police. We find that perspectives on abuse, punishment, and corruption are significant predictors of trust in the Colombian …
What’s Past is Prologue: Civil War Violence and Post-War Criminal Homicides
This paper focuses on the connection between civil war violence and post-war criminal homicides. This paper finds that past civil war violence intensity and presence of armed groups in a community increases the level of criminal homicides three, five, and ten years later. These findings are based on our statistical regression analysis of subnational data from 1,100 municipalities in Colombia drawn from Registro Único de Víctimas, Colombian Nation…
Impact of inquiry portfolios within a service-learning literacy field experience on preservice teachers’ knowledge growth and GPA
Outside of the Old Boys Club? Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for U.S. Senate Candidates
Since 2010, televised campaign ads have proliferated, raising questions about gender differences in the number of ads outside groups air. Assuming incumbent Democratic women and Democratic women with prior office-holding experience run with support from their party and interest groups, we expect Democratic-leaning groups air more favorable ads supporting Democrats in races that include experienced or incumbent Democratic women than they do in rac…
Lethal Engagement: The Relationship Between Contextual Exposure to Police Killings and External Political Efficacy
Outsiders among outside groups? Campaign advertising and the electability of female US House candidates
Mexican Immigrant Acculturation: The Impact of Political, Social, and Economic Characteristics of One’s Sending State
Immigration from Mexico has been a politically salient topic for decades and continues to be in the current political landscape. In this paper, we consider the push factors of the sending state that influence return migration, as opposed to much of the literature that focuses on the pull factors of the receiving state. Specifically, we hypothesize that Mexican states’ economic, political, crime, and border contexts influence a Mexican migrant’s p…
Criminal justice in Indian country: Examining declination rates of tribal cases
Objective This study examines how U.S. Attorney Offices (USAO) use their declination powers in Indian country (IC) cases, compared to non‐IC cases. Methods We utilize the “National Caseload Data” provided by the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. These data allow us to identify whether a crime occurred on IC and identify whether the USAO declined to prosecute a case. Further, we examine if and how the passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act (TL…
The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate
The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether these rallies and Trump’s rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We measured the number of reported white-supremacist propaganda, anti-Semitic incidents, and extremist behaviors that occurred both leading up to and directly following these campaign events. We contend that Trump’s rhetoric and rallies increased the perceived threat facing white Amer…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
Bringing People Together: Improving Intergroup Relations via Group Identity Cues
Many U.S. cities pursue a “human relations” strategy in response to racial and ethnic group conflict. Reflective of Common Ingroup Identity theory, human relations practitioners emphasize a superordinate community identity among residents from different groups for the purpose of “bringing people together” in an effort to improve intergroup relations. Practitioners also encourage intergroup contact to promote positive change in attitudes. Herein, …
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
Violence, Trust, and Public Support for the Colombian Peace Agreement
Objective As peace agreements have increasingly been put to a popular vote in places such as Northern Ireland, South Sudan, and Colombia, there is a corresponding practical and theoretical interest in understanding what factors influence public opinion toward the peace? We contend that support for peace in Colombia, as in other postwar contexts, is most powerfully shaped by individuals’ assessments of two critical factors—the level of violence ex…
To Run or Not to Run? U.S. House Campaign Advertising
Why are campaign advertisements utilized in congressional campaigns? This study examines the factors that influence if and the extent to which campaign ads are sponsored by candidates. Using the 2008 Wisconsin Advertising Project, the 2010 Wesleyan Media Project data sets, and original data on all U.S. House Candidates in the 2008 and 2010 general election, we investigate the candidate- and district-level factors that influence the use of politic…
Mary Jane Rocks the Vote: The Impact of Climate Context on Support for Cannabis Initiatives
Recent research on direct democracy has focused on the spatial component of voter decision making, finding that when the benefits from a proposed initiative are geographically dependent, support for the initiative in that area increases. However, the existing research has yet to fully specify the factors that lead to benefits for geographically adjacent individuals. Using a unique wave of direct democracy initiatives, and developing a new measure…
The impact of gender and quality opposition on the relative assessment of candidate competency
A Reexamination of Women’s Electoral Success in Open Seat Elections: The Conditioning Effect of Electoral Competition
This article reexamines gender differences in electoral outcomes. We consider whether electoral competition has a differential impact on the electoral fortunes of male and female quality candidates. This study uses an original data set containing detailed candidate information for US House open seat primary and general elections between 1994 and 2004. The results indicate that when multiple quality candidates enter the race, female quality candid…
Racializing Gender: Public Opinion at the Intersection
Efforts to understand the political implications of categorical prejudices—like racism and sexism—are complicated by the intersectional nature of social groups. Evaluating attitudes toward members of a single social category (e.g., African-Americans) in isolation can produce misleading conclusions, as racial cues commonly coincide with gender cues and create meaningful subgroups (McConnaughy and White 2014). The idea that different subgroups of w…
Reexamining Racial Attitudes: The Conditional Relationship Between Diversity and Socioeconomic Environment
Social science research notes that racial context is related to attitudes toward social issues; however, surprisingly little research has examined how the impact of racial context on attitudes is activated. The aim of this article is to examine racial context “effects” for policy preferences, but to do so within a broader perspective. This article extends the literature on racial attitudes by considering a conditional relationship between racial …
Latino Attitudes toward Various Areas of Public Policy: The Importance of Acculturation
The growth of the Latino population and the increasing political importance of this group leads to questions about the potential political importance of this group. As such, it is important to gain a better understanding of political attitudes among Latinos. This study focuses on the relationship between Latino acculturation and attitudes toward immigration-and non-immigration-related public policies. The results indicate that Latino attitudes to…
All Along the Watchtower: Acculturation Fear, Anti-Latino Affect, and Immigration
In this article, we consider how the factors driving Anglo attitudes toward immigration changed in the post-9/11 era. We argue that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the immigration issue became nationalized, framed in a threat context. In this context, acculturation fear and anti-Latino sentiment are strong predictors of restrictionist sentiment; in the pre-9/11 period, these factors have little substantive impact on Anglo attitudes. We theo…
Spatial Proximity to the U.S.—Mexico Border and Newspaper Coverage of Immigration Issues
This article examines how geographic proximity to the U.S.—Mexico border influences newspaper coverage of immigration issues. The authors investigate two questions: Do media organizations spatially proximate to the border offer more frequent coverage of Latino immigration than media organizations farther removed from the border? Do media organizations spatially proximate to the border offer more frequent coverage of the negative aspects of immigr…
Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform
Objective. Agenda-setting theory is used to motivate hypotheses about how media coverage of immigration influences public perceptions of its importance. The authors seek to offer a more complete explanation of public opinion on immigration by exploring differences in the effects of immigration news in border and nonborder states. Method. This article employs content analyses of newspaper coverage of immigration and Gallup public opinion data over…
Social Protest and Policy Attitudes: The Case of the 2006 Immigrant Rallies
Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions, we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine whether temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However,…
Racializing Gender: Public Opinion at the Intersection
Efforts to understand the political implications of categorical prejudices—like racism and sexism—are complicated by the intersectional nature of social groups. Evaluating attitudes toward members of a single social category (e.g., African-Americans) in isolation can produce misleading conclusions, as racial cues commonly coincide with gender cues and create meaningful subgroups (McConnaughy and White 2014). The idea that different subgroups of w…
Beyond Logit and Probit: Cox Duration Models of Single, Repeating, and Competing Events for State Policy Adoption
Since 1990, the standard statistical approach for studying state policy adoption has been an event history analysis using binary link models, such as logit or probit. In this article, we evaluate this logit-probit approach and consider some alternative strategies for state policy adoption research. In particular, we discuss the Cox model, which avoids the need to parameterize the baseline hazard function and, therefore, is often preferable to the…
Examining Individual-Level Voting Behavior on State Ballot Propositions
The intent of this study is to provide a broad examination of individual-level voting behavior on ballot propositions. This study seeks to extend the existing research on voting behavior in ballot elections in two ways: first, by examining a large number of issues across numerous states and second, by examining the “general” factors associated with voting choice. To examine individual-level voting behavior on state ballot initiative, I rely on Vo…
The Importance of Race and Ethnicity in Congressional Primary Elections
Research regarding the electoral importance of race and ethnicity in congressional elections is limited by the overwhelming focus on general-election outcomes. This article seeks to extend this research by examining minority candidate emergence and electoral competition in U.S. House primary elections, using a new data set on all U.S. House contests between 1994 and 2004 that includes demographic information on all the candidates in the primary e…
A Reexamination of Women’s Electoral Success in Open Seat Elections: The Conditioning Effect of Electoral Competition
This article reexamines gender differences in electoral outcomes. We consider whether electoral competition has a differential impact on the electoral fortunes of male and female quality candidates. This study uses an original data set containing detailed candidate information for US House open seat primary and general elections between 1994 and 2004. The results indicate that when multiple quality candidates enter the race, female quality candid…
Anglo Voting on Nativist Ballot Initiatives: The Partisan Impact of Spatial Proximity to the U.S.‐Mexico Border
Objective. In this study, we examine how contextual factors influence voting behavior on nativist ballot initiatives using California's Propositions 187 and 227. We argue that spatial proximity to the border is associated with voting behavior on nativist initiatives. Methods. To examine the influence of environmental factors on Anglo voting behavior on nativist ballot initiatives, we utilize California Field Polls, U.S. Census data, and spatially…
Slanted Newspaper Coverage of Immigration: The Importance of Economics and Geography
When compared to studies of media effects, relatively few studies of the media focus on factors that influence the behavior of media organizations. Specifically, there are few empirical studies of the attributes and incentives of news organizations that might lead to slanted coverage of particular policy issues. In this study, we identify factors that lead to negatively slanted coverage of a specific policy issue: immigration. Using content analy…
English‐ and Spanish‐Language Media Coverage of Immigration: A Comparative Analysis
Objective. We apply economic theories of news to explain differences between English‐ and Spanish‐language newspaper coverage of immigration. Methods. Using content analysis and contextual data, we examine newspaper coverage of immigration as a function of economic incentives of news organizations and the language of the newspaper outlet. Results. The results indicate that Spanish‐language news outlets generate a larger volume of coverage and mor…
The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos
Much of the protest literature has examined the policy consequences of social protests. Few studies focus on the effect of social protests on public opinion. We examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on the saliency of immigration among Latinos. The 2006 Latino National Survey was in the field before and after the protests began, creating a natural experiment. Using these data, we discover protests increased Latinos’ perception of un…
The impact of gender and quality opposition on the relative assessment of candidate competency
Voting in Initiative Elections: Does the Context of Racial and Ethnic Diversity Matter
Does the racial and ethnic diversity of the area in which a voter lives affect his or her political behavior? Scholars have suggested a range of such effects, but these conclusions have questionable generalizability because the behavior they typically examine is racially charged. In this article, I test more general affects of racial and ethnic context by examining political behavior on a range of issues, both racially relevant and racially neutr…
Lethal Engagement: The Relationship Between Contextual Exposure to Police Killings and External Political Efficacy
Close Enough for Comfort? The Spatial Structure of Interest and Information in Ballot Measure Elections
This study considers the importance of spatial context in state ballot-initiative elections. We argue that spatial context provides important information voters use to decide how to vote on initiatives with geographically based policy implications. Herein, we analyze tract-level voting on three California Indian Gaming initiatives. The findings indicate that voters located near Indian nations without gaming were less likely to support expansion o…
The determinants and political consequences of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition
Tensions between Latinos may undermine support for collective group interests. In this paper, we, first, examine the determinants of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition. We expected perceived intra-group competition to be shaped by Latinos' (1) personal economic status, (2) acculturation, (3) experiences with discrimination from co-ethnic members, (4) pan-ethnic identity, and (5) neighborhood conditions. Second, we explore how perceived co…
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate
The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether these rallies and Trump’s rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We measured the number of reported white-supremacist propaganda, anti-Semitic incidents, and extremist behaviors that occurred both leading up to and directly following these campaign events. We contend that Trump’s rhetoric and rallies increased the perceived threat facing white Amer…
Impact of inquiry portfolios within a service-learning literacy field experience on preservice teachers’ knowledge growth and GPA
Criminal justice in Indian country: Examining declination rates of tribal cases
Objective This study examines how U.S. Attorney Offices (USAO) use their declination powers in Indian country (IC) cases, compared to non‐IC cases. Methods We utilize the “National Caseload Data” provided by the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. These data allow us to identify whether a crime occurred on IC and identify whether the USAO declined to prosecute a case. Further, we examine if and how the passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act (TL…
Examining Individual-Level Voting Behavior on State Ballot Propositions
The intent of this study is to provide a broad examination of individual-level voting behavior on ballot propositions. This study seeks to extend the existing research on voting behavior in ballot elections in two ways: first, by examining a large number of issues across numerous states and second, by examining the “general” factors associated with voting choice. To examine individual-level voting behavior on state ballot initiative, I rely on Vo…
Voting in Initiative Elections: Does the Context of Racial and Ethnic Diversity Matter
Does the racial and ethnic diversity of the area in which a voter lives affect his or her political behavior? Scholars have suggested a range of such effects, but these conclusions have questionable generalizability because the behavior they typically examine is racially charged. In this article, I test more general affects of racial and ethnic context by examining political behavior on a range of issues, both racially relevant and racially neutr…
Beyond Logit and Probit: Cox Duration Models of Single, Repeating, and Competing Events for State Policy Adoption
Since 1990, the standard statistical approach for studying state policy adoption has been an event history analysis using binary link models, such as logit or probit. In this article, we evaluate this logit-probit approach and consider some alternative strategies for state policy adoption research. In particular, we discuss the Cox model, which avoids the need to parameterize the baseline hazard function and, therefore, is often preferable to the…
Reexamining Racial Attitudes: The Conditional Relationship Between Diversity and Socioeconomic Environment
Social science research notes that racial context is related to attitudes toward social issues; however, surprisingly little research has examined how the impact of racial context on attitudes is activated. The aim of this article is to examine racial context “effects” for policy preferences, but to do so within a broader perspective. This article extends the literature on racial attitudes by considering a conditional relationship between racial …
Anglo Voting on Nativist Ballot Initiatives: The Partisan Impact of Spatial Proximity to the U.S.‐Mexico Border
Objective. In this study, we examine how contextual factors influence voting behavior on nativist ballot initiatives using California's Propositions 187 and 227. We argue that spatial proximity to the border is associated with voting behavior on nativist initiatives. Methods. To examine the influence of environmental factors on Anglo voting behavior on nativist ballot initiatives, we utilize California Field Polls, U.S. Census data, and spatially…
Latino Attitudes toward Various Areas of Public Policy: The Importance of Acculturation
The growth of the Latino population and the increasing political importance of this group leads to questions about the potential political importance of this group. As such, it is important to gain a better understanding of political attitudes among Latinos. This study focuses on the relationship between Latino acculturation and attitudes toward immigration-and non-immigration-related public policies. The results indicate that Latino attitudes to…
English‐ and Spanish‐Language Media Coverage of Immigration: A Comparative Analysis
Objective. We apply economic theories of news to explain differences between English‐ and Spanish‐language newspaper coverage of immigration. Methods. Using content analysis and contextual data, we examine newspaper coverage of immigration as a function of economic incentives of news organizations and the language of the newspaper outlet. Results. The results indicate that Spanish‐language news outlets generate a larger volume of coverage and mor…
Spatial Proximity to the U.S.—Mexico Border and Newspaper Coverage of Immigration Issues
This article examines how geographic proximity to the U.S.—Mexico border influences newspaper coverage of immigration issues. The authors investigate two questions: Do media organizations spatially proximate to the border offer more frequent coverage of Latino immigration than media organizations farther removed from the border? Do media organizations spatially proximate to the border offer more frequent coverage of the negative aspects of immigr…
Slanted Newspaper Coverage of Immigration: The Importance of Economics and Geography
When compared to studies of media effects, relatively few studies of the media focus on factors that influence the behavior of media organizations. Specifically, there are few empirical studies of the attributes and incentives of news organizations that might lead to slanted coverage of particular policy issues. In this study, we identify factors that lead to negatively slanted coverage of a specific policy issue: immigration. Using content analy…
The Importance of Race and Ethnicity in Congressional Primary Elections
Research regarding the electoral importance of race and ethnicity in congressional elections is limited by the overwhelming focus on general-election outcomes. This article seeks to extend this research by examining minority candidate emergence and electoral competition in U.S. House primary elections, using a new data set on all U.S. House contests between 1994 and 2004 that includes demographic information on all the candidates in the primary e…
Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform
Objective. Agenda-setting theory is used to motivate hypotheses about how media coverage of immigration influences public perceptions of its importance. The authors seek to offer a more complete explanation of public opinion on immigration by exploring differences in the effects of immigration news in border and nonborder states. Method. This article employs content analyses of newspaper coverage of immigration and Gallup public opinion data over…
All Along the Watchtower: Acculturation Fear, Anti-Latino Affect, and Immigration
In this article, we consider how the factors driving Anglo attitudes toward immigration changed in the post-9/11 era. We argue that in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the immigration issue became nationalized, framed in a threat context. In this context, acculturation fear and anti-Latino sentiment are strong predictors of restrictionist sentiment; in the pre-9/11 period, these factors have little substantive impact on Anglo attitudes. We theo…
Close Enough for Comfort? The Spatial Structure of Interest and Information in Ballot Measure Elections
This study considers the importance of spatial context in state ballot-initiative elections. We argue that spatial context provides important information voters use to decide how to vote on initiatives with geographically based policy implications. Herein, we analyze tract-level voting on three California Indian Gaming initiatives. The findings indicate that voters located near Indian nations without gaming were less likely to support expansion o…
The determinants and political consequences of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition
Tensions between Latinos may undermine support for collective group interests. In this paper, we, first, examine the determinants of Latinos' perceived intra-group competition. We expected perceived intra-group competition to be shaped by Latinos' (1) personal economic status, (2) acculturation, (3) experiences with discrimination from co-ethnic members, (4) pan-ethnic identity, and (5) neighborhood conditions. Second, we explore how perceived co…
The Influence of Social Protests on Issue Salience among Latinos
Much of the protest literature has examined the policy consequences of social protests. Few studies focus on the effect of social protests on public opinion. We examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on the saliency of immigration among Latinos. The 2006 Latino National Survey was in the field before and after the protests began, creating a natural experiment. Using these data, we discover protests increased Latinos’ perception of un…
Racializing Gender: Public Opinion at the Intersection
Efforts to understand the political implications of categorical prejudices—like racism and sexism—are complicated by the intersectional nature of social groups. Evaluating attitudes toward members of a single social category (e.g., African-Americans) in isolation can produce misleading conclusions, as racial cues commonly coincide with gender cues and create meaningful subgroups (McConnaughy and White 2014). The idea that different subgroups of w…
Social Protest and Policy Attitudes: The Case of the 2006 Immigrant Rallies
Do protests sway public opinion? If so, why and how? To address these questions, we examine the impact of the 2006 immigration protests on immigration policy preferences. We use the 2006 Latino National Survey coupled with protest data to examine whether temporal and spatial exposure to the protests are associated with policy preferences. Our findings lend evidence that protest activity influences Latinos' immigration policy preferences. However,…
A Reexamination of Women’s Electoral Success in Open Seat Elections: The Conditioning Effect of Electoral Competition
This article reexamines gender differences in electoral outcomes. We consider whether electoral competition has a differential impact on the electoral fortunes of male and female quality candidates. This study uses an original data set containing detailed candidate information for US House open seat primary and general elections between 1994 and 2004. The results indicate that when multiple quality candidates enter the race, female quality candid…
Mary Jane Rocks the Vote: The Impact of Climate Context on Support for Cannabis Initiatives
Recent research on direct democracy has focused on the spatial component of voter decision making, finding that when the benefits from a proposed initiative are geographically dependent, support for the initiative in that area increases. However, the existing research has yet to fully specify the factors that lead to benefits for geographically adjacent individuals. Using a unique wave of direct democracy initiatives, and developing a new measure…
The impact of gender and quality opposition on the relative assessment of candidate competency
To Run or Not to Run? U.S. House Campaign Advertising
Why are campaign advertisements utilized in congressional campaigns? This study examines the factors that influence if and the extent to which campaign ads are sponsored by candidates. Using the 2008 Wisconsin Advertising Project, the 2010 Wesleyan Media Project data sets, and original data on all U.S. House Candidates in the 2008 and 2010 general election, we investigate the candidate- and district-level factors that influence the use of politic…
Perceived police performance, racial experiences, and trust in local government
Given the continued revelation of police abuses of racial-ethnic minorities in America, it is of the utmost importance for scholars to focus on questions of how police conduct is related to minority political behavior, in particular their trust in local government. In this paper, we find evidence that both egotropic and sociotropic insecurity and experiences with police have a significant correlation with confidence in local government. The effec…
Violence, Trust, and Public Support for the Colombian Peace Agreement
Objective As peace agreements have increasingly been put to a popular vote in places such as Northern Ireland, South Sudan, and Colombia, there is a corresponding practical and theoretical interest in understanding what factors influence public opinion toward the peace? We contend that support for peace in Colombia, as in other postwar contexts, is most powerfully shaped by individuals’ assessments of two critical factors—the level of violence ex…
The Impact of Subjective Social Position on Public Evaluations of Police
Objective We examine factors that explain differences in assessment of police performance among whites, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, and utilize a subjective social position framework to better understand variation in poor police evaluations. The framework combines previously disparate explanations in the literature. Method Logit models assess 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post‐Election Survey data augmented by Census, FBI crime stati…
Bringing People Together: Improving Intergroup Relations via Group Identity Cues
Many U.S. cities pursue a “human relations” strategy in response to racial and ethnic group conflict. Reflective of Common Ingroup Identity theory, human relations practitioners emphasize a superordinate community identity among residents from different groups for the purpose of “bringing people together” in an effort to improve intergroup relations. Practitioners also encourage intergroup contact to promote positive change in attitudes. Herein, …
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