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Asian American identity: shared racial status and political context / Junn, Jane; Masuoka, Natalie

Junn, Jane	Journal Article
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2008.

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Asia ; America ; Latin American ; Racial Status ; Political Context

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Gender Gap Is a Race Gap: Women Voters in US Presidential Elections / Masuoka, Natalie; Junn, Jane

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Scholarship on women voters in the United States has focused on the gender gap, showing that, since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Democratic Party candidates than men. The persistence of the gender gap has nurtured the conclusion that women are Democrats. This article presents evidence upending that conventional wisdom. It analyzes data from the American National Election Study to demonstrate that white women are the only group of female voters who support Republican Party candidates for president. They have done so by a majority in all but 2 of the last 18 elections. The relevance of race for partisan choice among women voters is estimated with data collected in 2008, 2012, and 2016, and the significance of being white is identified after accounting for political party identification and other predictors.

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Gender Gap ; US Presidential Elections ; Women Voters ; Race Gap

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Racial Identity and Voting: conceptualizing White Identity in Spatial Terms / Nicholas Weller and ; Junn, Jane

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Recent political events have prompted an examination of the analytical tools and conceptual frameworks used in political science to understand voting and candidate choice. Scholars in the behavioral tradition have highlighted the empirical relationship between racial resentment and anti-black affect among white voters during and after President Obama’s successful run for re-election. The theoretical role of white identity within the context of the privileged status of this racial group has seen much less scholarly attention by political scientists, particularly with respect to racial group identification and its implications. To address this lacuna, we argue that racial identification among white voters can be conceived of as a utility-based trait relevant to candidate choice, combining a social-psychological approach of group membership together with a rational choice perspective. This conceptualization of the political utility of white racial identity provides wider conceptual latitude for empirical tests and explanations of voting in U.S. elections.

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Racial Identity and Voting ; Conceptualizing White Identity ; Spatial Terms

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Response to spotlight on promotion letters: the devil is in the (financial) details / Junn, Jane

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