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Sensationalized Surveillance: Campus Reform And The Targeted Harassment Of Faculty [Post-Print], Samantha Mccarthy, Isaac Kamola

Faculty Scholarship

Campus Reform is a right-wing website that hires students to write articles accusing universities and faculty members of “liberal bias.” These pieces circulate widely within the right-wing media ecosystem, where they can inspire self-deputized online vigilantes to harass faculty members and college administrators to sanction their faculty members. We argue that Campus Reform is part of a well-funded and well-organized panoptic network that engages in the sensationalized surveillance of faculty. This paper first develops our concept of sensationalized surveillance. We then offer a comprehensive institutional history of Campus Reform – demonstrating that it originates with, and continues to operate as, …

Symposium On Trends And Advances In The Comparative Politics Of Immigration: Taking Stock [Post-Print], Anthony Messina, Gallya Lahav

Faculty Scholarship

Up until the 1980s immigration-related subjects were largely ignored by comparative political scientists. It was only when they were politicized during the 1990s that political science scholarship on these subjects proliferated. The essays in this symposium expand upon the progress comparativists have made in comprehending and explaining the phenomena of mass immigration and immigrant settlement. Specifically, they explore several recent currents within their respective research streams, including issue salience, radical Right political parties, the domestic politics of immigration policy making, and national immigration regimes. All are intellectually indebted to the scholarship of Gary P. Freeman and Martin A. Schain to …

Qanon And The Digital Lumpenproletariat [Post-Print], Isaac Kamola

Faculty Scholarship

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The 2019 European Elections: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, And Something Green, Mark N. Franklin, Luana Russo

Faculty Scholarship

© 2020 Società Italiana di Scienza Politica. In the aftermath of a European Parliament (EP) election, there are normally two prominent aspects that receive attention by scholars and experts: the turnout rate and whether the Second Order Election (SOE) model proposed by Reif and Schmitt (1980) still applies. That model is based on the idea that, because EP elections do not themselves provide enough stimulus as to replace the concernsnormally present at national elections, the outcomes of EP elections in any participating country manifest themselves as a sort of distorted mirror of national (Parliamentary) elections in that country. The mirror …

Who's On The Bench? The Impact Of Latino Descriptive Representation On U.S. Supreme Court Approval Among Latinos And Anglos [Post-Print], Diana Evans, Ana Franco, J L. Polinard, James Wenzel, Robert Wrinkle

Faculty Scholarship

Objectives

Few studies have examined the impact of the descriptive representation of Latinos on evaluations of the judiciary. This study helps to fill that gap by examining the effect of the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor on Latinos’ and Anglos’ evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Methods

Using repeated measures from surveys conducted in Texas in 2006 and 2011, we use ordered logit analysis to estimate the impact of the Sotomayor appointment on approval of the U.S. Supreme Court among Latinos and Anglos.

Results

At all levels of political knowledge, Latinos were more aware of the Sotomayor appointment than Anglos. Moreover, …

Ethnic Concerns And Latino Party Identification [Post-Print], Diana Evans, Ana Franco, James P. Wenzel, Robert D. Wrinkle

Faculty Scholarship

The accelerated growth of the Latino population in the United States has made Latinos a coveted addition to each major political party's base. In this paper we examine the influence of ethnic concerns on the party identification of Latinos in the U.S. In contrast to previous studies, we account for Latinos’ perceptions of the political parties’ concern for their ethnic interests, allowing such interests to be self-defined. In a multinomial logit analysis of pooled data from three surveys of Latinos taken in 1999, 2004, and 2006, we find such perceptions do affect Latino partisanship, along with variables such as nativity …

The Transformation Of Generation X: Shifts In Religious And Political Self-Identification, 1990-2008, Barry A. Kosmin, Juhem Navarro-Rivera

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.