Does the corruption of a woman politician decrease public support for other women political leaders? To answer this question, article examines how impeachment Park Geun-hye, first female president South Korea, affects people’s perceptions women’s leadership in Korea. We argue that high-level scandal led to lower evaluations because intense and gendered media coverage Park’s failure. Using two waves World Values Survey conducted Korea before after Geun-hye’s 2017, we show negatively views...

This study takes a cultural approach to examine the unstable and contentious nature of Korean democracy. Analyzing an original nationwide survey conducted in 2015, we find that democratic participatory culture people underlies finding suggests substantial tension between orientation public representative

This study examines how the interplay between racial diversity and economic inequality affects variations of social capital in U.S. counties. In general, heterogeneity is assumed to provide a negative environment for growth capital. Building on this, we argue effect weaker than that because increased felt less visibly acutely heterogeneity. Moreover, can positively condition adverse impact when two interact. Based crosscutting cleavages theory, income racially fragmented community works as...

How does the threat of deportation affect Latinos' political engagement and participation? Little scholarship systematically analyzes effects upon Latino engagement. This article explores how raised under Trump administration affects cognitive electoral behaviour in politics among Latinos Rio Grande Valley (RGV). By utilizing original data from an RGV public opinion survey conducted 2018, we examine threat, measured as knowing a deportee or detainee well worrying about deportability...

The goal of this study is to analyze the ideological positions Hispanic college students in U.S. Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Building on Feldman and Johnston’s work, where they argue that a unidimensional model political ideology provides an incomplete basis for study, we employ two dimensions account domestic policy preference. core taxonomic analysis survey RGV taking government courses, find beliefs millennials trend significantly more conservative and, especially, libertarian than expected....

ABSTRACT The theories and evidence about relationships between democracy social spending in Latin America are highly contested. A recent study shows that collective protest by organized labor effectively increases security welfare spending, whereas mass does not have comparable effects on human capital American democracies. This article reexamines the analysis demonstrates alone cannot sway democratic governments. Labor strikes require synchronizing effect of to obtain government...

Recently, there has been a surge of national attention toward the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas, known as Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Despite and potential impact, which wall would directly have on RGV community, no systemic paid to opinions residents regarding proposed other related immigration policies. This article, therefore, aims fill this gap by comparing policy attitudes borderland communities both Hispanic general populations. By utilizing original data from an public opinion...

Previous research has provided contested hypotheses about the impact of income inequality on electoral participation. This study reexamines debate between conflict and relative power theories by focusing a largely ignored factor: social mobility. We argue that mobility conditions inequality-participation nexus alleviating frustration, class conflict, efficacy gaps rich poor prevailing assume to create. By utilizing Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, we test this argument US counties....

This article presents data on social capital at the United States' county-level. Following Rupasingha et al. (2006), index captures common factor among density measures of 10 different types associations, voter turnout rates, U.S. decennial census participation and number non-profit organizations. Based Knack (2003), we create associational densities as a proxy for both bridging bonding capital. Including income inequality, racial diversity, minority group size, average household income,...

This study examines how perceptions of economic inequality affect political participation focusing on East Asian democracies. It develops nuanced predictions income and social mobility their interplay individuals’ engagement in various types activities six Using the fourth wave Barometer Survey, we examine novel arguments built upon existing inequality-participation nexus. Our analysis suggests that is a multifaceted concept, mechanisms nexus could vary depending regional, socioeconomic, context.

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