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Developing Political Strategies Across A New Democratic And State Architecture, Brian Wampler
Developing Political Strategies Across A New Democratic And State Architecture, Brian Wampler
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Under new democratic regimes, civil society organizations (CSOs) alter their political strategies to better engage public officials and citizens as well as to influence broader political debates. In Brazil, between 1990 and 2010, CSOs gained access to a broad participatory architecture as well as a reconfigured state, inducing CSOs to employ a wider range of strategies. This article uses a political network approach to illuminate variation in CSOs’ political strategies across four policy arenas and show how the role of the state, the broader configuration of civil society, the interests of elected officials, and the rules of participatory institutions interact …
India Has A Sexual Assault Problem That Only Women Can Fix, Nisha Bellinger
India Has A Sexual Assault Problem That Only Women Can Fix, Nisha Bellinger
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
India is the most dangerous country for sexual violence against women, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation 2018 survey.
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Stephen M. Utych
How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Stephen M. Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Immigrants, as a group, are frequently described in ways, such as vermin or disease, that portray them as less than human. This type of dehumanizing language leads to negative emotional responses and negative attitudes towards the dehumanized group. This paper examines how the dehumanization of immigrants influences immigration policy attitudes I use original experimental data to show that dehumanization leads to more negative immigration attitudes. I further find that these negative attitudes are mediated by the role of emotion. Dehumanization increases anger and disgust towards immigrants, which causes anti-immigrant sentiment.
Rethinking Reporting On Polls In Time For Midterm Elections, Stephen Utych
Rethinking Reporting On Polls In Time For Midterm Elections, Stephen Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The Associated Press, a nonprofit news wire published by 1,300 papers and broadcasters, has updated its stylebook to clarify that “poll results that seek to preview the outcome of an election must never be the lead, headline or single subject of any story.”
The Influence Of Regional Power Distributions On Interdependence, Michael A. Allen
The Influence Of Regional Power Distributions On Interdependence, Michael A. Allen
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Political economy debates about the influence of power configurations in expanding and maintaining global liberalization ebb and flow with the wax and wane of the concentration of power in the international system. This article engages the debate in a novel way from previous scholarship. Employing a series of econometric models that account for regional power, I argue that the global power concentration is ill fit to be the primary predictor of trade liberalization, but instead, regional power fluctuations can dampen and enhance global trends. By incorporating sub-systemic power configurations, we gain a better understanding of the regional variation in states …
Electoral Cycle Fluctuations In Partisanship: Global Evidence From Eighty-Six Countries, Kristin Michelitch, Stephen Utych
Electoral Cycle Fluctuations In Partisanship: Global Evidence From Eighty-Six Countries, Kristin Michelitch, Stephen Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Elections are defining elements of democracy but occur infrequently. Given that elections evoke mass mobilization, we expect citizen attachments to political parties to wax during election season and wane in between. By leveraging data from 86 countries across the globe to investigate the effect of the electoral cycle on partisanship, we find that the predicted probability of being close to a political party rises 6 percentage points from cycle midpoint to an election—an effect rivaling traditional key determinants of partisanship. Further, fluctuations are larger where the persistence of party presence throughout the cycle is weaker and socioeconomic development is lower. …
The Politics Of Human Well-Being, Nisha Bellinger
The Politics Of Human Well-Being, Nisha Bellinger
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Why are there large disparities in the quality of life people lead? What are the factors that account for the general well-being of mankind? How do we improve human lives? These questions are substantively important as they are policy relevant.
Negative Affective Language In Politics, Stephen M. Utych
Negative Affective Language In Politics, Stephen M. Utych
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
How do the words we use to talk about politics influence political attitudes and evaluations? I focus specifically on negative affective language; words which individuals have pre-existing negative reactions towards. Considering the Affect Infusion Model (AIM), processing style influences how individuals use affect when making decisions. The impact of affective language depends upon the complexity of the decision. In simpler processing tasks, individuals will use affect as a heuristic. This causes a misattribution of generalized negative affect onto a political target, leading to harsher evaluations. When a decision is complex, affective language influences how new information is stored in memory, …