2025
- Immigration is difficult?! Informing voters about immigration policy fosters pro-immigration viewsBy: Alexander Kustov, Michelangelo LandgraveAbstract: The US public is mostly ignorant about basic immigration knowledge. While various attempts
- How Are Minority Staffers Utilized? Evidence from the California State AssemblyBy: Michelangelo LandgraveAbstract:Legislative staffers are among legislators’ most valuable assets and their appointment by legislators is strategic. Past research has
- Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2023: Demographics of Incarcerated ImmigrantsBy: Michelangelo Landgrave, Alex NowrastehAbstract:People crossing into America unlawfully at the southwest border is one of the top public policy issues that
- Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting GoalpostsBy: Aime Rovelo, Aryanna Hyde, Michelangelo LandgraveAbstract:Several studies have attempted to test whether corrective
- Do congressional candidates benefit from rejecting PAC contributions? Evidence from a pre-registered candidate evaluation survey experimentBy: Michelangelo Landgrave, Nicholas R Jenkins, Aubree J HardestyAbstract: Do congressional candidates
- Unpacking the policy outcome tendencies of US negotiated water settlementsBy: Glen KrutzAbstract:Since the 1970s, negotiated settlements have become the popular method for forging agreement on water provision in the American West between Native
- A Picture Held Us Captive: Simon Stow's Referential Theory of Black PatriotismBy: Michaele L FergusonAbstract: Simon Stow invokes Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations to distinguish his account of Black patriotism from that
- Feminism and the politics of becomingBy: Michaele L FergusonAbstract: This essay critically analyzes Hans Asenbaum treatment of feminist political theory in Chapter 3 of The Politics of Becoming, using his own concept of the ‘dilemma of
- Teaching US Politics to Support Multiracial DemocracyBy: Janet L DonavanAbstract:Students in political science classes seek knowledge to understand and navigate the political world. Teaching U.S. politics to support and participate in multiracial
- When Politics Appears Bleak: Revisiting Civic Hope During Democratic BackslidingBy: Michael McDevitt, Janet Donavan, Leah SprainAbstract: Civic hope among ordinary citizens has yet to attract much attention in political science despite its