Politics, Groups and Identities
Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
- 📢 What drives civic engagement with women’s organizations? Jackson & Torres-Beltran show that individuals favor local, hands-on organizations, regardless of gender, feminist identity, or prior volunteer experience. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 👋 Hello readers, and happy 2026! Before we move on to what’s new, here’s a quick recap of 2025: our Top-10 most read articles 🧵
- 📢 How are conservative judges reshaping LGBTQ rights after Bostock? Pierceson finds that while Bostock v. Clayton County expanded protections for transgender plaintiffs, some conservative judges now use Dobbs and past rulings to narrow those rights. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 What explains Latinx support for Trump in 2020? Múzquiz and Junn find that differences among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American voters, shaped by migration history, citizenship, and political incorporation, explain variation in partisan choices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion. Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 What shapes who works in Congress? Rutherford & Wu analyze 180K U.S. House staff contracts showing how legislators’ demographics, party, and competition shape staff representation. Nonwhite members hire more staff of color, while gender links are weaker. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 How does partisan media shape white racial consciousness? Smith, Clark & Lella find that Fox News viewership among white Americans correlates with stronger perceptions of anti-white bias and opposition to CRT education. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 How do immigrants learn about politics under hostile conditions? Corral uses IWPS data to show how Latina/o immigrants with precarious legal status interpret racist rhetoric and discrimination as paths to political learning and group consciousness. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Important work on how contact with women of color shapes perceptions of discrimination 👇
- Does Contact with Women of Color Change Perceptions of Discrimination? 📖 Take a look at this recent article in @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social by Jasmine Jordan, Nazita Lajevardi and John Waller: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #polisky 🧵(1/6)
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- 📢 How do LGBTQ+ media frame rights claims? Collins, Pierce, Rhodes & Rice analyze an original database of LGBTQ+ magazine coverage of court cases & legal claims (1989–2008), showing topic evolution and shifts in language and issue emphasis. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Who opposes birthright citizenship in the U.S.? Lajevardi & Merolla show broad support overall, but a sizable minority—disproportionately White—favor ending it, with views tied to ideology and attitudes toward undocumented immigrants. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 Brown examines how LGBTQI+ activists in Mauritius challenged colonial-era sodomy laws through strategic litigation, pushing for rights in a system that celebrates multiculturalism but marginalizes queerness. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Peay & Pulley apply Weaver’s "Frontlash" to show how punitive criminal justice policies spread across states post–Civil Rights. Liberal states, under electoral pressure, mirrored conservative “tough on crime” narratives. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 Jin finds that **priming a Common Ingroup Identity through national identity** no longer reduces affective polarization. Instead, negative feelings toward the nation now intensify out-party animosity in today’s hyperpolarized context. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢 Hardin finds that states allowing campaign funds for childcare see more women running for state legislatures. CFCC policies help reduce barriers, improve gender norms, and strengthen the pipeline for women’s political representation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Jeong finds that acculturation psychology helps explain party ID among Asian Americans and Latinos: those high in assimilation lean Republican, while those high in multiculturalism lean Democratic. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Jones tests how LGBTQ groups frame identity—by emphasizing similarity or difference from the dominant majority—and finds no effect on support, perceived effectiveness, or political appeal among LGBTQ and straight cis respondents alike. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Schroeder & Campos study voter preferences for VP nominees and find that while partisans care about race and gender, they do not always prefer candidates who match their own identity, suggesting more strategic or ideological motivations. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Watts-Smith et al. examine the “neighborhood gap”—the mismatch between class and neighborhood quality for middle-class Black Americans—and show how it shapes racial consciousness and linked fate. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Why don’t children imagine women as political leaders? In a new piece for The Conversation, Okedele, Kang, & Greenlee explore how gendered norms shape Nigerian children’s perceptions of political leadership. 🔗 theconversation.com/nigerian-chi... 👇🧵
- 📢 How should we measure Black political socialization? Strawbridge uses four decades of survey data to show that common items reflect a shared underlying concept—and proposes a multidimensional measure aligned with its original definition. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Immigration shapes not only policy but also public perception, institutional engagement, and lived experience. This thread shares three recent studies that examine public attitudes, immigrant-police interactions, and immigrant identity. 👇🧵
- 📢 How do children view political leadership where men dominate politics? Okedele et al. find that 90% of Nigerian children imagine political leaders as men, revealing early gendered norms. Evidence on ambition gaps by gender is mixed. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Garcia et al. revisit Black Faces in the Mirror and find that Black legislators still provide more co-racial representation—and the gap with non-Black members has grown, showing the evolving role of descriptive representation. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Sulemana analyzes cabinet appointments in 25 African countries and finds that women are more likely than men to receive high-prestige portfolios. Gender and political experience—not education or profession—predict who gets top positions. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Manion et al. find that women and people of color are underrepresented on municipal boards and commissions in Missouri, especially on powerful boards. Female mayors help reduce gender gaps, and racial representation varies across cities. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 Skinner uses an experiment to show how framing refugee policy, especially as a security threat, shapes public opinion. Security frames drive partisan divides, revealing the impact of rhetoric on support for restrictive policies. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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