melinamuch.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @csmapnyu.org. Identities, political behavior, social media 👩🏻💻 melinamuch.com
👤 Joined on 26 February 2025
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@melinamuch.bsky.socialThanks to @verasight.io's APSA survey, fun outcome related to a book out soon. The idea is that people have worldviews that give us a lens into a less timebound conservatism. Collapsing four dimensions into one Q, and using another Q in the survey, we see participation motives vary by outlook.
Show PostWe argue: polarization doesn't affect everyone equally. For groups **historically excluded from political power**, racial or other group identities may matter more than partisan identities. And that can change how political disagreements affect social relationships /2
Show Post🚨Excited to share my new paper with Jessica Gottlieb and Damien Kelly! Everyone is worried about POLARIZATION. But are we all experiencing it the same way? 👉 We argue that to understand polarization, we need to bring POWER back into the conversation /1
Show PostMeet Giovanna Itzel, 2026 Fund for Latino Scholarship Giovanna Itzel is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Irvine, with graduate emphases in Chicano/Latino studies and… https://politicalsciencenow.com/meet-giovanna-itzel-2026-fund-for-latino-scholarship/
Show PostNow in an issue. A key takeaway I think is that we need to think broadly about attitudes to understand whether "change" occurred and how these attitudes respond, or not, to different information types.
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