Big thank you upfront to the hosts of PRIEC @UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Political Science
Professors Pei-te Lien, Christopher Parker, AJ Rice, Alfredo Gonzalez, and Raymond Orr, thank you for organizing, securing sponsorship, and hosting PRIEC
Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇
doi.org/10.1086/736577
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8. Running in Context: Marginalization, PolAmbition, & Candidate Emergence
Iris Acquarone, ASU
Argues: election context excluding marginalized people activates latent pol ambition, but mobilization needs substance
Test: surveyExp show salient marginalization + aim for inclusion —> run4office
#PRIEC
🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language?
New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thrilled that this is out at the APSR! 😀
I document how male elites creatively adapt to electoral reform in Indian village councils.
Relevant for how we think about: 1) limits of reforms meant to equalize power, 2) (male) elite capture, 3) the "proxy" representative debate.
A (late) 🧵
Pia Raffler
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
From our February Issue: Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites by ANTONELLA BANDIERA, @hlarreguy.bsky.social and JORGE MANGONNET. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
How does the level of sophistication in political messages affect citizens? While
research has examined how politicians use this element to distinguish themselves,
little is known about how it resonat...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
Very excited that our article is now out @jepsjournal.bsky.social!
Using an original survey experiment, we find that rural Americans exhibit greater support for laws and perceive them as more beneficial to rural communities when proposed by rural state representatives.
Read it at cup.org/4c9cfpi
Our @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org author shared insights from her book: “The truth is, they’d always been standing in political quicksand. As @zeynsom.bsky.social describes in her book “Glass Ceilings, Glass Cliffs, and Quicksands,” female leaders often operate in more precarious environments.”
Danbischof
Another @priec.bsky.social on the books! Thanks to the UCSB hosts, the PRIEC community, and @quicopedraza.bsky.social for continually pushing us forward.
Always:
interesting & exciting research
constructive feedback
engaged audiences
stimulating conversations
fun socials
Host one! Come to the next!
Experts break down what women in Trump's orbit should learn from his latest dismissals.
www.huffpost.com
Alyssa Heinze
American Political Science Review
From our FirstView: Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India by @alyssarheinze.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Dihan Shi
American Political Science Review
Tiffany Barnes
Iris Acquarone
#OpenAccess @jepsjournal.bsky.social -
The Power of Place: Rural Descriptive Representation and Policy Support - https://cup.org/4c9cfpi
- Lukas K. Alexander & Dihan Shi
#FristView
