Workshops
The PRE Lab runs a biweekly workshop where we discuss working papers by lab members. Check out some of our exciting new papers below.
Exposure to anti-LGBTQ+ Violence and the Adoption of Prosocial Political Attitudes Towards LGBTQ+ People
Does indirect exposure to anti-LGBTQ+ violence perpetrated by civilians engender prosocial political attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people among the mass public?…
Read MoreProtest and Community Response to Police-Involved Killing in the Age of Black Lives Matter?
Largely, community response to police killings are rare events, even in the communities in which they are common occurrences. In…
Read MoreEthnic 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…
Read MoreCoercive 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.
Read MoreAppeals 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…
Read MoreLiving 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…
Read MoreDenigrating 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…
Read MoreGender, 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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