Chris Karpowitz, @quinmonson, Jessica Preece, & Alejandra Gimenez Aldridge argue that existing explanations of the partisan gender gap undervalue voters’ contributions by focusing on voter responses to candidate sex rather than candidate gender. #APSRFirstView .
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Co-hosted the 2nd annual Four Corners Political Psych Conference with Chris Karpowitz. There is something special about this group. Lisa Argyle Jessica Feezell Anand Edward Sokhey Ethan Busby Annabelle Hutchinson University of Utah University of Utah Political Science College of Social and Behavioral Science BYUPoliticalScience Arizona State University University of Arizona UNLV PoliSci CU-Boulder

🥳🥹 Almost nine (!!) years after the first pilot, this paper with Chris Karpowitz, Stephen D. O'Connell & Jessica Preece is accepted JPE!

It's been one of my favorite and most impactful projects, so including a short 🧵 below. Full paper here:
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Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party - cup.org/421VTZ5

- @profkarpo, @quinmonson, JESSICA R. PREECE & ALEJANDRA ALDRIDGE (all BYU)

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Really pleased that this work with Tali Mendelberg, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, and David Ribar is now online Journal of Politics @[email protected]: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

What does it mean when we decide we don't have obligations to each other? BYU political science professors Chris Karpowitz and Kelly Patterson spent several years studying this and wrote a paper on it. Join us today at 11:00 for the interview.

So, apparently Twitter is rebranding as Xerox?

Sister Holland was one of the kindest and most caring people on this earth. Her loss will be felt deeply by our family and so many more. Our prayers are with her wonderful family at this difficult time.

Yes, constitutionalism is not merely for lawyers! I would add that political scientists have important and valuable perspectives on constitutionalism and constitutional history, too. Jeremy C. Pope Keith E. Whittington Jack Rakove

The giggling, cheering, rapturous audience was the most disturbing part of last night. A sobering lesson in demagoguery and its intended effects.

The real ethics code is the friends we made along the way. Alexandra Petri
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Had a great day visiting BYU political science. I felt bad for being continually distracted by their department's amazing mountain views.

Thank you Ethan Busby & Mike Barber for the invite and great feedback!

Study out today by Alan N Yan and Dr. Rachel Bernhard randomly assigns gendered names to campaign volunteers. Finds outbound texts from “female-named volunteers receive more offensive, silencing, and withdrawal responses than male or ambiguously named volunteers.” cup.org/3on2Cgn

April 4, 2023. Yes, April, not February.

I'm delighted that this work on list experiments is now appearing in print. Three extraordinary undergraduates -- Sarah Austin, Jacob Crandall, and Raquel Macias -- were the heart of the study, and it began with an idea they had in Dan Nielson's POLI 200: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-ar…