marandajoyce.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Rice University 🦉| I study extremism in local politics, the politics of education & social identity | Former Texas policy wonk/early education researcher | I’m on the market! | marandaljoyce.github.io
👤 Joined on 06 December 2023
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@marandajoyce.bsky.social.@mirya.bsky.social & I wrote a research article on how the parties have dramatically polarized over *checks notes* whether sexual assault is bad in the past decade. Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Show PostSo glad this is out in the world! Idea for this paper first came from public convos back in 2015 about Rachel Dolezal and why she couldn’t be Black in the public eye. Lots of folks had lots to say about the social construction of Blackness. This is our attempt to say lots of something about that.
Show PostSo some interesting idea for what might underpin people's desire to cast a ballot next month (or engage politically more generally). For more on the ideas, see: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Show PostThanks 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 PostDrawing on political science, historical scholarship, and education studies as well as original survey research, survey experiments, and policy analysis, the book traces how K-12 education lost much of its institutional insulation from national politics, ...
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