Why are there so few working-class women in politics? Jeong Hyun Kim & Yesola Kweon find that working-class backgrounds disadvantage women candidates in a way that they do not disadvantage their male counterparts. Read more about their findings here: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to show how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss.
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749…

📢New issue of #PAG19 is out!📢 In 'Women Get the Job Done' Nichole Bauer & Ivy A.M. Cargile, PhD conduct an audit study to measure legislators' responsiveness to constituent emails, finding that the responsiveness of women exceeds that of male lawmakers cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Meet the 2024-2025 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program Fall Recipients
politicalsciencenow.com/meet-the-2024-…

It’s a new year with old problems: homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence & immigration are worsening public crises. In my new book: Intersectional Advocacy I show how advocacy groups tackle these issues together in extraordinary ways that give us hope for US democracy.

Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico

By Mónica A. Jiménez

uncpress.org/book/978146967…

Starting ‘24 positively. Jessica Cobian (Jessica Cobian) & I are super pleased to share our Annual Review essay on Latino Politics (pre-pub).

This was a big responsibility to write. It was also stressful because we can’t cover everything.

annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

How does the increase in ethnic minority representatives shape electoral behavior? Stephanie Zonszein & @guygrossman argue it can threaten a historically white-dominant political context, activating white constituents in the next election.
#APSRFirstView
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Most parents don't care about their kids' political beliefs.

Even though children tend to share their parents' partisanship, only 16% of parents think it is very important to pass on their political beliefs to their kids.

#OpenAccess -

Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach - cup.org/3NW8VkW

- Ariel White (MITPoliticalScience), Paru Shah, Eric Gonzalez Juenke (@MSU_poli_sci) & Bernard L. Fraga

#FirstView

Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond

by Ana Muñiz

ucpress.edu/book/978052037…

Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications

by Melissa Villa-Nicholas

rutgersuniversitypress.org/latinas-on-the…

I'm pleased to share a glimpse into some of the research I've been doing on U.S. sermons! Check out this CPS blog post to see my analysis of how pastors talk about racism.

I will never recover from this student email.

If you are like me, and you tend to submit these day of, this is your reminder that we're collecting abstracts THROUGH today--September 12.

So don't forget to submit!!!

Incredible work! I love how it took class, race, ethnicity, and immigration into account. Super fascinating.

Labor Day thread on my new working paper with paul frymer and Charlotte Hill

tl;dr it's really hard to study but state level right-to-work (RTW) laws weaken organized labor, and by extension, weaken democratic institutions

ungated: dropbox.com/scl/fi/1hze2p1…

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I love how class conscious this policy is! Shout out to the professors who already do this for their classes.

We're at 300+ TT jobs. I'm also happy to share that I've added a form for people to submit updates for jobs to let others know if a given job has moved to the fly out stage etc. etc. #PsJMinfo

politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates…