How to Sound the Alarms: Untangling Racialized Threat in Latinx Mobilization

Nichols, Vanessa Cruz; Valdéz, Ramón Garibaldo

doi:10.1017/s1049096520000530

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“…More generally, the social mobilization literature links political action on behalf of descriptive group membership to fears about losing rights or declining group safety. This effect holds among women broadly and women of color specifically (Dowe 2020; Silva and Skulley 2019; Thomas and Wilcox 2014), as well as among senior citizens (Campbell 2003) and Black, Latinx, and Arab Americans (Anoll and Israel-Trummel 2019; Cho, Gimpel, and Wu 2006; Nichols and Valdéz 2020; Scott and Collins 2020).…”

Section: Role Models and Women’s Political Ambitionmentioning

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Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

Clayton

O’Brien²,

Piscopo³

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Previous work suggests that observing women officeholders increases women’s political ambition. Yet, jumps in women’s representation in the United States’ “Years of the Woman”—following the Anita Hill testimonies and the election of Donald Trump—are linked to women’s exclusion from political decision-making. Drawing on focus groups with prospective women candidates, we theorize that exclusion when combined with a gendered policy threat increases women’s political ambition. Using survey experiments replicated across different samples, we show that women who read about an all-male city council poised to legislate on women’s rights report increased ambition compared with their pretreatment ambition levels and to women in other treatment groups. Women’s increased sense of political efficacy drives these results. When women’s rights are not under discussion, men’s overrepresentation does not move (or even depresses) women’s ambition. Seeing the policy consequences of their exclusion causes some women to seek a seat at the table.

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Section: Role Models and Women’s Political Ambitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

Clayton

O’Brien²,

Piscopo³

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Recent scholarship on immigration has emphasized the need to consider white Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration as racial attitudes (see, e.g., Sáenz & Douglas 2015; Erel et al, 2016; Nichols & Valdéz 2020). This work sees anti-immigrant attitudes as an extension of racist attitudes, especially since the major sources of immigration to the US are non-European, and, thus, largely considered to be non-white.…”

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“Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans”

Melcher

2023

American Politics Research

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The two dominant paradigms in the study of white Americans’ racial attitudes—symbolic racism and group position theory—while fundamentally differing with regard to theoretical orientations and causal emphases, concur in their rejection of individual-level economic circumstances—typically operationalized through either conventional measures of class or direct racial threats to whites’ personal lives—as a meaningful determinant of whites’ racial attitudes. This article argues that these existing measures do not sufficiently consider the subjective dimension of individuals’ economic well-being. As such, conclusions drawn from the relative lack of association between these measures and racial attitudes are likely overstated. Utilizing a measure of affective economic insecurity—anxiety concerning one’s economic circumstances—a strong correlative relationship is shown to exist between this dimension of individual-level economic circumstances and whites’ racial attitudes. Specifically, it is shown that affective economic insecurity is related to whites’ level of racial resentment, their perception of racialized labor market competition, and their attitudes toward immigration. A causal relationship between affective economic insecurity and perceptions of racialized labor market competition is established through an original survey experiment.

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“…As a positive emotion, enthusiasm can lead to participation in activities merely for the pleasure of the act regardless of the likelihood that participation will result in the achievement of a particular goal (Fredrickson 2001; Groenendyk and Banks 2014). Several studies have documented higher political engagement among individuals experiencing positive emotions such as enthusiasm and hope about political figures and campaigns (Brader 2006; Marcus, Neuman, and MacKuen 2000; Valentino et al 2011), particularly among strong partisans (Groenendyk and Banks 2014) and people of color (Nichols and Valdéz 2020; Phoenix 2019). We hypothesize that elevated levels of enthusiasm in reaction to Clinton’s historic run for office should also increase political ambition.…”

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The Effect of the Political Environment on White Women’s Political Ambition

DeMora

Lindke

Long

et al. 2023

Political Research Quarterly

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The year 2018 has been dubbed the Year of the Woman because of the increased number of women who ran for office. What helps explain the dramatic increase in the number of women running for office? This paper examines how the political environment shapes white women’s emotional reactions to politics and in turn their political ambition. We focus on major aspects of the 2016 election: Trump’s treatment of women, Clinton’s historic run for office, the Women’s March, and the #MeToo movement. We argue that each of these factors leads to distinct emotional reactions, and that some of these reactions can increase political ambition. We explore support for these arguments with an experiment conducted with a sample of highly educated white women, an experiment fielded on the 2019 CCES, and with in-depth interviews conducted with first-time women candidates in 2018. We find that Trump’s treatment of women and Clinton’s historic run for office inspired political ambition, but through different emotional pathways. Trump’s treatment of women increased anger and in turn political ambition, while Clinton’s historic run increased ambition through enthusiasm. We find more muted effects for the Women’s Marches and the #MeToo movement.

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How to Sound the Alarms: Untangling Racialized Threat in Latinx Mobilization

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition

“Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans”

The Effect of the Political Environment on White Women’s Political Ambition

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