Populism is one of the catchwords of the twenty-first century. Populist presidents have accessed power in every corner of the world, from the US to India to Hungary, and populist attitudes have bec...

Traditional understandings of political socialization attribute youth activism and participation to factors including familial and peer socialization. Drawing on a unique set of focus group intervi...

This article revisits and extends the analysis of Sommer and Franco [Sommer, Udi, and Idan Franco. 2024. “Trump’s African Americans? Racial Resentment and Black Support for Trump in the 2020 Electi...

For nearly 40 years, the United States has grappled with ineffective immigration policies and the reality of approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants living and working on American soil wit...

While lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and Christian identities are often thought of as being politically conflicting, many LGBT Americans identify as Christian. Yet, there is limited ...

News coverage of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement published in the summer of 2020 framed protestors along ideological lines: conservative media emphasized violent riots and looting, whereas li...

The “White Replacement” conspiracy theory, that governments and corporations are “replacing” white people, is linked to several mass shootings. Given its recent ubiquity in elite rhetoric, concerns...

In the literature on social change and rights, the backlash narrative plays an enormous role. Advocates of the backlash theory posit that judicial declaration of rights stimulate a backlash from po...

States like Florida place a heavy administrative burden on transgender people who want to change their names. Applicants face a dozen pages of legal forms, fingerprinting, a background check, a $40...

Fox News has dedicated considerable attention to Critical Race Theory (CRT), recoding it as indicative of anti-white racism. This study examined whether exposure to these narratives is associated w...

U.S. public opinion has traditionally supported Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. However, in recent years, support for Israel has declined, especially among younger left-l...

How do administrative burdens shape who shows up to their scheduled immigration court hearings? In this reflection, I use the administrative burdens framework to argue that challenging commutes exa...

This paper validates a brief four item scale that measures gendered personality in place of the 20-question Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). Gendered personality measures whether people conform to di...

This study reports on the prevalence of racist attitudes in Germany, comparing a conventional survey question with a list experiment (LE). In a nationally representative survey, respondents were as...

White Americans with higher levels of racial resentment are among the most consistent opponents of social welfare policies for lower-income people because they perceive that these policies predomin...

How do voters understand Indigenous politics? We use original survey data to explore attitudes around Indigenous politics and policy reforms in the context of a high-profile national constitutional...

Despite the ubiquity of maps presenting 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaiʻi, the territorial expanse of land subject to the laws of the United States comprises more than that. The federal gov...

The study of democratization processes undergoes constant revitalization within the discipline. CER enables the inclusion of diverse voices, experiences, frameworks, and questions which might chall...

Family life is central to political campaigns in the U.S.; yet relatively little is known about whether voters apply different standards of parental responsibility to mother and father candidates. ...

Union locals have been overlooked as political organizations even though they are critical for socializing members into the politics of the union. In this article I develop and test a theory to exp...

This article develops a racial capitalist theory of predatory inclusion to explain how consumer credit reproduces racial hierarchy in the United States. Predatory inclusion describes how marginaliz...

The purpose of this paper is to assess if and how a prominent conservative think tank borrows framing tactics from dominant racial ideologies in public discourse to oppose prominent cases of police...

While millions of Americans struggle with student loan debt, Black students are disproportionately reliant on loans to finance their education and bear the largest debt burdens as a result. Many po...

“Bathroom bills” that require transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond to their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity have become law in many states, some i...

How can we more accurately measure racial identity among Latinos? Does Latinos’ self-described race and/or skin color influence feelings of closeness with racial rather than ethnic groups? This art...

Black political and socioeconomic life diverges from other racial groups in America because of white supremacy. Black political scientists contributed to the study of white supremacy by centering B...

Through oral histories shared by early-generation scholars, we celebrate the narratives of Black political scientists. Such narratives illustrate the reluctance of the discipline to prioritize eith...

With the invitation to reflect upon the founders of the Black politics subfield, this article considers the work of Cathy Cohen. I particularly focus on her essay “Deviance as Resistance: A New Res...

Published in Politics, Groups, and Identities (Vol. 13, No. 5, 2025)