Outputs (5)

Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping (2016)
Journal Article
Visalvanich, N. (2016). Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping. Political Research Quarterly, 70(1), 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912916674273

Racial stereotyping has been found to handicap African American and Latino candidates in negative ways. It is less clear how racial stereotypes may change the fortunes of Asian candidates. This paper explores the candidacies of Asian Americans with a... Read More about Asian Candidates in America: The Surprising Effects of Positive Racial Stereotyping.

Dyadic representation in a Westminster system (2016)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2017). Dyadic representation in a Westminster system. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 42(2), 235-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12148

Is policy representation in contemporary Westminster systems solely a function of programmatic national parties, or does the election of legislators via single-member districts result in MPs whose policy positions are individually responsive to publi... Read More about Dyadic representation in a Westminster system.

Legislator dissent as a valence signal (2016)
Journal Article
Campbell, R., Cowley, P., Vivyan, N., & Markus, W. (2019). Legislator dissent as a valence signal. British Journal of Political Science, 49(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123416000223

Existing research suggests that voters tend to respond positively to legislator independence due to two types of mechanism. First, dissent has an indirect effect, increasing a legislator’s media coverage and personal recognition among constituents (p... Read More about Legislator dissent as a valence signal.

When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates (2016)
Journal Article
Visalvanich, N. (2016). When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates. Politics, Groups and Identities, 5(4), 618-641. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2016.1146152

How significant of a factor is race in minority candidate evaluation? I present theory of race and minority candidate evaluation which argues that candidate race acts as an informational heuristic that affects perceptions of a candidate's ideological... Read More about When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates.

Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples (2016)
Journal Article
Hanretty, C., Lauderdale, B. E., & Vivyan, N. (2018). Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples. Political Science Research and Methods, 6(3), 571-591. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.79

Political scientists interested in estimating how public opinion varies by constituency have developed several strategies for supplementing limited constituency survey data with additional sources of information. We present two evaluation studies in... Read More about Comparing Strategies for Estimating Constituency Opinion from National Survey Samples.