📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔍︎Take a look at this recent article, “Spanish and American colonialism and Filipino American political commonality with Latinos,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Danielle Casarez Lemi and Gabriel R. Sanchez 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✅What shapes Americans’ understanding of the racial consequences of policy choices? Check out this @3streamsblog.bsky.social post that introduces research in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social, on how the way people are asked about racial inequality can lead to very different answers: medium.com/3streams/why...

👪 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article, “Married with children: do intermarriage and children impact political orientations?” by N. Phan, N. McNeely and E. Vargas. Take a look here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156... #polisky

Support for dismantling DEI didn’t happen overnight. It’s the outcome of narratives recoding CRT as a threat to white Americans. My article (w/ @meredithdclark.bsky.social) in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social examines how this strategy became sentiment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2556104

❓“Who are your people? – The effect of political ideology and social identity on climate-related beliefs and risk perceptions,” was recently published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Eunbin Chung and Manjana Milkoreit. Take a look below 👇 doi.org/10.1080/2156... #polisky

📢 How do immigrants learn about politics under hostile conditions? Corral uses IWPS data to show how Latina/o immigrants with precarious legal status interpret racist rhetoric and discrimination as paths to political learning and group consciousness. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇

🇺🇸Do Americans share the same political value structure? Check out a blog post on @3streamsblog.bsky.social that highlights research from @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social showing how race, ethnicity, and gender shape core political values of different demographic groups. medium.com/3streams/do-... #polisky

📢 How do LGBTQ+ media frame rights claims? Collins, Pierce, Rhodes & Rice analyze an original database of LGBTQ+ magazine coverage of court cases & legal claims (1989–2008), showing topic evolution and shifts in language and issue emphasis. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Who opposes birthright citizenship in the U.S.? Lajevardi & Merolla show broad support overall, but a sizable minority—disproportionately White—favor ending it, with views tied to ideology and attitudes toward undocumented immigrants. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How Do Different Types of Nationalism Shape Support for Family Separation? 👀Read this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social ‬ by Bracic, Israel-Trummel and Shortle: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky 🧵(1/5)

Is Political Science Mentoring Helping or Harming Historically Excluded Groups? 👀Read this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social‬ by Christina Fattore and Shauna F. Fisher: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #polisky 🧵(1/5)

Re-upping this! Send me your papers! @wpsa.bsky.social @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social

📢 Brown examines how LGBTQI+ activists in Mauritius challenged colonial-era sodomy laws through strategic litigation, pushing for rights in a system that celebrates multiculturalism but marginalizes queerness. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Peay & Pulley apply Weaver’s "Frontlash" to show how punitive criminal justice policies spread across states post–Civil Rights. Liberal states, under electoral pressure, mirrored conservative “tough on crime” narratives. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📲 @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social recently published the article “New label, different identity? Three experiments on the uniqueness of Latinx,” by Bianca V. Vicuña and Efrén O. Pérez. Read it here👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Jin finds that **priming a Common Ingroup Identity through national identity** no longer reduces affective polarization. Instead, negative feelings toward the nation now intensify out-party animosity in today’s hyperpolarized context. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢Explore this recent work by Kirill Zhirkov, “Perceptions of stereotypically immigrant groups as darker-skinned and politics of immigration in the United States and Britain,” published in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

📢 Hardin finds that states allowing campaign funds for childcare see more women running for state legislatures. CFCC policies help reduce barriers, improve gender norms, and strengthen the pipeline for women’s political representation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Jeong finds that acculturation psychology helps explain party ID among Asian Americans and Latinos: those high in assimilation lean Republican, while those high in multiculturalism lean Democratic. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Jones tests how LGBTQ groups frame identity—by emphasizing similarity or difference from the dominant majority—and finds no effect on support, perceived effectiveness, or political appeal among LGBTQ and straight cis respondents alike. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Schroeder & Campos study voter preferences for VP nominees and find that while partisans care about race and gender, they do not always prefer candidates who match their own identity, suggesting more strategic or ideological motivations. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Watts-Smith et al. examine the “neighborhood gap”—the mismatch between class and neighborhood quality for middle-class Black Americans—and show how it shapes racial consciousness and linked fate. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why don’t children imagine women as political leaders? In a new piece for The Conversation, Okedele, Kang, & Greenlee explore how gendered norms shape Nigerian children’s perceptions of political leadership. 🔗 theconversation.com/nigerian-chi... 👇🧵

📢 How should we measure Black political socialization? Strawbridge uses four decades of survey data to show that common items reflect a shared underlying concept—and proposes a multidimensional measure aligned with its original definition. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Immigration shapes not only policy but also public perception, institutional engagement, and lived experience. This thread shares three recent studies that examine public attitudes, immigrant-police interactions, and immigrant identity. 👇🧵

📢 How do children view political leadership where men dominate politics? Okedele et al. find that 90% of Nigerian children imagine political leaders as men, revealing early gendered norms. Evidence on ambition gaps by gender is mixed. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Garcia et al. revisit Black Faces in the Mirror and find that Black legislators still provide more co-racial representation—and the gap with non-Black members has grown, showing the evolving role of descriptive representation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Sulemana analyzes cabinet appointments in 25 African countries and finds that women are more likely than men to receive high-prestige portfolios. Gender and political experience—not education or profession—predict who gets top positions. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Manion et al. find that women and people of color are underrepresented on municipal boards and commissions in Missouri, especially on powerful boards. Female mayors help reduce gender gaps, and racial representation varies across cities. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Skinner uses an experiment to show how framing refugee policy, especially as a security threat, shapes public opinion. Security frames drive partisan divides, revealing the impact of rhetoric on support for restrictive policies. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(6/6) Learn more from reading McCubbins’ and Ramirez’s @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social article, linked below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

(1/6) Does dehumanizing language against immigrants increase support for immigrant detention? Here’s a 🧵 on what we learn from a @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social article by Amanda McCubbins & Mark D. Ramirez: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky

📢 Udani & Wedding show how accompaniment scholarship allows political scientists to work alongside asylum seekers rather than studying them. They demonstrate how this approach strengthens political skills and policymaking participation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Achury et al. find that including Latinos in judicial panels boosts procedural legitimacy but not substantive legitimacy in immigration cases. Diversity improves views of the court’s fairness, regardless of the outcome. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Zimmerman examines situational trust in Black politics, showing how some community members of three South Side Chicago neighborhoods collaborate with distrusted institutions to address violence. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Clealand & Gutierrez find that racial identity & skin color shape group closeness. Trigueño & medium-skin-toned Puerto Ricans feel closer to Latinos, while Black-identifying & darker-skinned Latinos report more linked fate with Black people. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Mayer & Parks find that partisan victimhood narratives strengthen group identity, with Republican victimization perceptions more entrenched. Conservative media reinforces this, especially among those with strong partisan ties. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Kaur & Philips find that gender quotas foster upward mobility in political carreers, while caste quotas create barriers, particularly for marginalized men, showing how different quotas shape long-term political representation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Davies reflects on Cathy Cohen’s work and calls for expansive methodologies in Black politics research, emphasizing the inclusion of marginalized identities and innovative approaches that highlight the productive motions of Black life. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PGI is back to work! As we kick off the year, and in light of recent events, we present a thread of published papers that are relevant to the current moment: 👇🧵

PGI will be on hiatus until January 15 🗓️. As we enter a new presidency in 2024, we are looking forward to articles on presidential transitions and their connection to identity and representation. See you next year!

📢 Do sexual misconduct allegations affect views of Trump? Klar & McCoy find new accusations reduce approval among #MeToo-supporting Democrats but have no impact on Republicans, highlighting partisan divides. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Does perceived sexism explain why women are seen as less electable? Simas finds no strong connection but confirms women face disadvantages, urging broader studies on electability beyond sex. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 What drives far-right extremism in U.S. local politics? Wippell finds demographic diversity and economic status shape support for the constitutional sheriff movement, with racial, not nativity-based, dynamics driving extremism. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Why are Latino candidates underrepresented in U.S. politics? Ocampo & Ray find party elites give fewer endorsements to Latino candidates, limiting their chances of winning and reflecting poor integration into partisan networks. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Why do some Americans support family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border? Bracic et al. find ethnocultural nationalism -- beliefs about religion, ethnicity, and gender -- explains support better than generalized nationalism. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....