2021

The dynamics of issue salience: immigration and public opinion

Avery Lord — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:10:32 +0000

The dynamics of issue salience: immigration and public opinion Avery Lord Tue, 06/16/2026 - 14:10

The dynamics of issue salience: immigration and public opinion

By: Hannah L Paul, Jennifer Fitzgerald

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Issue salience is an important dimension of public opinion and democratic politics. When mass publics are deeply concerned about particular societal issues, they can shape political debates, contests, agendas, and outcomes. Given the shifting politicization of certain issues in advanced democracies and the heightened importance of people’s issue positions for their vote choices, fresh insights into the dynamics of issue salience are increasingly valuable. A review of existing research reveals that we have a great deal to learn about the way salience emerges and shifts among regular people in democratic societies. Compounding the need for knowledge about issue salience is the growing diversity of advanced democratic societies.

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Introduction: Iris Marion Young in context

Avery Lord — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:42:52 +0000

Introduction: Iris Marion Young in context Avery Lord Tue, 06/16/2026 - 13:42

Introduction: Iris Marion Young in context

By: Michaele L Ferguson, Andrew Valls

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Iris Marion Young was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation. She had a substantial impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. Young’s work hence constitutes an important challenge to many of the most dearly held notions about the task of theory in general, and political theory in particular, even while it affirms the necessity of sound theory and the inescapability of questions of justice. Her work is deeply informed by many Continental schools of thought, including poststructuralism, existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory, yet Young also engaged Anglo-American and analytic political philosophy. Young draws upon the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s as a source and an inspiration for her arguments about justice. The work of justice is first to render the structural processes visible and then to take collective action to dismantle those social structures that are sources of domination and oppression.

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Iris Marion Young: gender, justice, and the politics of difference

Avery Lord — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:40:22 +0000

Iris Marion Young: gender, justice, and the politics of difference Avery Lord Tue, 06/16/2026 - 13:40

Iris Marion Young: gender, justice, and the politics of difference

By: Michaele Ferguson, Andrew Valls

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Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) was one of the most influential and innovative political theorists of her generation who had a significant impact on a wide range of topics such as democratic theory, feminist theory, and justice. She bridged many longstanding divides among political theorists, engaging in Continental and critical theory, but also insisting on the importance of normative argument: her corpus stands as a testament to the fruitfulness of engaging in both abstract theory and the'real world'of everyday politics. This volume spans the several decades of her work, illustrating her intellectual development over time through three major areas of innovation: Gender: Maintaining that gender is both conceptually and politically meaningful, Young theorized gender in terms of structures that, in combination, position different people we call" women" in different ways, such that some women have some structures in common, without all women sharing all gendered structures in common. Justice: Young’s early writings on a critical theory of justice evolved in her later and posthumously published works where she developed an account of justice that brought together her theorization of structure with her concern to respond to contemporary claims of injustice. The Politics of Difference: Young rejected universal and abstract theories of justice and maintained that justice instead required attending to the experiences of people marked by difference. This volume will prove useful to scholars and students working in the fields of critical and political theory, feminist theory, international law and public diplomacy.

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Why some blame politics for their personal problems

Avery Lord — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:25 +0000

Why some blame politics for their personal problems Avery Lord Mon, 06/15/2026 - 16:00

Why some blame politics for their personal problems

By: Vanessa A. Baird, Jennifer Wolak

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Why do some people blame the political system for the problems in their lives? We explore the origins of these grievances and how people assign responsibility and blame for the challenges they face. We propose that individual differences in the personality traits of locus of control and self-esteem help explain why some blame the political system for their personal problems. Using responses from a module of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we show that those with low self-esteem and a weaker sense of control over their fates are more likely to blame the political system for the challenges they face in their lives. We also demonstrate that this assignment of blame is politically consequential, where those who intertwine the personal and the political are more likely to evaluate elected officials based on pocketbook economic conditions rather than sociotropic considerations.

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Ian Shapiro

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:13:15 +0000

Ian Shapiro Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/06/2022 - 12:13

Dissertation: The Public's Relationship With Political Misinformation
Committee: Anand Sokhey (Chair), Jennifer Wolak, Jennifer Fitzgerald, John Griffin, Kyle Saunders, Colorado State University
Major Fields: American Politics, Methods
Ph.D. 2021
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tennessee State University

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Samantha Moya

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Dissertation: Education, Socialization, and Trade Policy: How the Economic Beliefs of Congress Members Influence Trade Openness in the United States
Committee: David Bearce (Chair), Adrian Shin, Andy Baker, Srinivas C. Parinandi, Keith Maskus (Economics)
Major Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics
Ph.D. 2021
Lecturer for the Department of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder

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Erkan Güneş

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:11:09 +0000

Erkan Güneş Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/06/2022 - 12:11

Dissertation: Policy Agendas and Financial Markets: An Aggregate Level Analysis of Stock Market Reactions to Issue Attention Dynamics
Committee: Sarah Wilson Sokhey (Chair), Joseph Jupille, Andy Baker, Joshua Strayhorn, Asaf Bernstein (Business Administration)
Major Fields: Comparative Politics, Public Policy, Methods
Ph.D. 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow, Constructor University

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Dalton Dorr

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Dissertation: Buying In: Labor Informality and Political Participation in Latin America
Committee: Andy Baker (Chair), Carew Boulding, Adrian Shin, Josh Strayhorn, Jeronimo Carballo (Economics)
Major Fields: Comparative Politics, Methods
Ph.D. 2021
Senior Data Analyst - Homeless Services, City of Long Beach

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Christina Boyes

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Dissertation: Extractability: Human capital, technical capacity, and the strategic use of natural resources in intrastate conflict
Committee: Jaroslav Tir (Chair), Megan Shannon, Aysegul Aydin, Srinivas C. Parinandi, Leilani Arthurs (Geology)
Major Fields: International Politics, Public Policy, Comparative Politics
Ph.D. 2021
Assistant Professor in the Division of International Studies at CIDE in Mexico City

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Pavel Bačovský

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:57:36 +0000

Pavel Bačovský Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/06/2022 - 11:57

Dissertation: New Game Plus. The Effects of Videogaming on Sociopolitical Attitudes and Behavior
Committee: Jennifer Fitzgerald (Chair), Alexandra Siegel, Anand Sokhey, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Ethan Scheiner (University of California, Davis)
Major Fields: Comparative Politics, American Politics, International Relations
Ph.D. 2021
Assistant Director, Academic Success Data, University of Rhode Island

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