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The Existence and Impact of Partisan Political Intolerance
Get PDFThis dissertation establishes the presence of partisan political intolerance among the American public. This form of political intolerance specifically targets members of the opposing mainline party and the partisans aligned with it. Additionally, it demonstrates that partisan intolerance is a strong predictor of many of the most troublingly anti-democratic attitudes in the American public, including but not limited to support for political hardball, preference for authoritarian rule, and approval of political violence. While observational, these findings are strongly suggestive that partisan political intolerance lies at the root of many of the most troubling trends in American politics. In addition to the empirical work on the presence and effects of partisan political tolerance, this dissertation also establishes a significant theoretical framework for new measures of political tolerance. These measures align more closely with Sullivan's conception of political intolerance, departing from the predominant yet less favored method used over the past 40 years. Moreover, this dissertation introduces a fresh concept of political tolerance itself: valuing the democratic rights of one’s political opponents above one's own political or policy preferences
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Relational Formations of Race in the Afterlives of the Korean War
No full textRelational Formations of Race in the Afterlives of the Korean War investigates how the Korean War continues to shape the racial order of the United States (U.S.) long after the armistice. Far from a “forgotten war,” the conflict produced enduring structures of governance, cultural narratives, and diasporic experiences reverberating across generations. I argue that the Korean War functions as a constitutive event in the relational formation of race: its afterlives make visible how U.S. empire and militarism organize racial meaning across multiple sites—from comics and film to neighborhood economies and online cultures—through interpretive social scientific methods. The project proceeds through three thematically linked analytical essays.The first analytical essay examines the U.S. military’s project of racial integration in popular culture during the Korean War. Analyzing Korean War–era comics as cultural artifacts, I argue that these texts translated Cold War racial liberalism into narrative form, casting martial citizenship as a central site of racial negotiation. They portrayed Black and Asian subjects simultaneously as threats to and allies of U.S. empire, dramatizing the ambiguities of inclusion under militarized democracy.The second analytical essay turns to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, situating so-called Black–Korean conflict as an afterlife of martial governance forged in the Korean War. Drawing on oral histories, Black press accounts, and archival records, I show how the logics of “police action” abroad migrated into U.S. domestic policing, shaping conditions of urban neglect and racial tension. I also analyze Black cultural expression in film and music as interpretive sites where the uprising was refracted into critiques of Korean merchants, racial capitalism, and state abandonment.The third analytical essay explores the emergence of far-right Korean American figures in twenty-first-century political culture. Through the “Rooftop Korean” meme and the performances of North Korean defector-activists such as Yeonmi Park, I demonstrate how diasporic militarism has been rearticulated into reactionary spectacle aligned with U.S. conservatism and white nationalism—what I term diasporic reactionary spectacle.Taken together, these essays demonstrate that the Korean War is a constitutive event in the relational formation of race. Its afterlives link diaspora, policing, and reactionary politics, illuminating not only Korean American experience but also the broader logics of U.S. empire and racial governance
Supplementary materials to: Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on Black political participation
No full textSupplementary materials to: Phoenix, D. L. (2020). Black hope floats: Racial emotion regulation and the uniquely motivating effects of hope on Black political participation. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 662-685. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v8i2.847This research was supported in part by a grant from the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP).The Supplementary Materials include a figure illustrating the racial emotion regulation model, the control and treatment flyers from Study 1, a path analysis model from Study 1, and a predicted probability plot from Study 2.peerReviewedacceptedVersio
Anger (Mis)Management? Racial Differences in the Emotional Foundations of Political Action.
Get PDFMessaging that communicates policy threats—signals of developments in the political environment that will restrict or deny a valued political good—are a constant element of American discourse. Extant scholarship asserts such messaging propels people to greater political action by making them angry over the prospect of loss. Although this notion makes intuitive sense and has empirical backing, I argue policy threat cues do not effectively stimulate political action across all groups. Existing work exploring the linkage of emotion and behavior has not fully contended with the influence of race in determining individuals’ responses to cues of policy threat.
This project aims to fill what I argue is a gap in the literature. I use affective intelligence and cognitive appraisal theories as frameworks for understanding how receipt of varying cues can engender distinct affective and behavioral responses. Integrating this literature with the work on black attitudes, I theorize that the respective interpretative lenses employed by blacks and whites to inform their broader perceptions of the political system—and their respective roles within it—systematically constrain their emotional responses to policy threat cues.
The ideological narratives shaping blacks’ general worldview breed an overarching resignation regarding the political system’s responsiveness to blacks’ collective demands. This resignation can either inhibit the arousal of anger among blacks receiving policy threat cues, or it can override the mobilizing effects of anger by signaling to the threat cue recipient the ineffectiveness of his potential action. Whether anger’s emergence is inhibited among blacks, or anger’s positive effect on action after emergence is disrupted, the subsequent effect is the same. African Americans will not take up greater action in response to the policy threat, creating a critical participation disparity relative to whites.
Two empirical studies, examining nationally representative survey data and a locally conducted survey experiment, suggest multiples pathways through which race constrains the translation of anger to political action in response to policy threat cues. These studies aid the construction of a theory of racialized emotional and behavioral responses to policy cues. This theory advances scholarly and practical understanding of race, emotion, communication and participation.PhDPublic Policy and Political ScienceUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111543/1/dphoenix_1.pd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Clarifying the “People Like Me”: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior
Get PDFPolitical efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study of political behavior. However, the reference group that respondents view as “people like me” is not always immediately clear. This limits our ability to infer how efficacy informs political participation. We propose a specific concept and operationalization of racial group efficacy, and we distinguish this concept from racial identity, group consciousness, and conventional efficacy measures. Analyses of data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey reveal that for white, Black, Asian, and Latina/o Americans, racial efficacy is a more consistent and robust predictor of political participation than standard internal and external efficacy measures. Further, we show that racial efficacy exhibits associations with conventional and unconventional forms of participation that distinguish whites from people of color. We conclude by discussing how people’s racial efficacy informs their engagement in politics, from voting to protests
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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