Workshops
Ethnic Favoritism in Street-level Bureaucracy?
Is there ethnic favoritism in street-level bureaucracy? And do conflict legacies facilitate ethnic favoritism? Street-level bureaucracy is the primary state…
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Coercive Consent: The Practical Efficiency and Normative Efficacy of Police Discretion
Prior research demonstrates discretionary policing engenders unnecessary intrusions in the lives of civilians without a commensurate increase in public safety.
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Appeals to proportional distributive fairness mitigate ethnocentric bias in policy evaluation
The literature on welfare chauvinism shows that ethnocentric bias reduces individual support for outgroup redistributive policies. To limit bias, scholarship…
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Living in the Shadow of Deportation: How Deportation Threat Forestalls Political Assimilation Among Immigrants and Their Co-Ethnics
Prior research demonstrates acculturated co-ethnics of immigrant groups adopt restrictive immigration policy preferences akin to that of host country dominant…
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Denigrating Democracy: How Partisan Competition Sparks Xenophobia in Lebanon
Protection of minorities is a hallmark of liberal democracy, but partisan competition typically requires appealing to majoritarian groups. When do…
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in Government Cabinets: Evidence from Asia
What explains cabinet diversity – both gender and ethnicity? In contrast to the literature that (1) focuses singularly on one…
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