Asian American Mobilization: The Effect of Candidates and Districts on Asian American Voting Behavior

Sadhwani, Sara

doi:10.1007/s11109-020-09612-7

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“…Additionally, future research should disaggregate which Asian‐American nationalities respond to group threats. AAPI political behavior is nuanced and the effects of political stimuli often vary by national origin group (Sadhwani, 2020). Our own cursory analysis asking respondents in the December 2017 wave of our survey whether they have experienced an increase in linked fate after the 2016 election demonstrates that South Asians are somewhat more likely than East Asians ( p < 0.1) to have felt an increase in feelings of linked fate.…”

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Are You Threatening Me? Asian‐American Panethnicity in the Trump Era

Arora

Stout

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. This study explores the effect of Donald Trump's candidacy, and first year in office, on Asian-American linked fate. We argue that the use of anti-Asian and anti-immigrant messaging during the 2016 election, and the enactment of discriminatory policies once elected, increased feelings of panethnic linked fate among Asian Americans. Method. To test our hypotheses, we assess Asian Americans' levels of linked fate before the 2016 election, immediately after the 2016 election, and one year after the 2016 election with several time-series surveys. Results. We find that Asian-American linked fate is higher after the election and remains high one year later. Qualitative data collected through open-ended survey responses suggest that the increase in panethnic linked fate can be at least partially attributed to Trump's discriminatory rhetoric. Conclusion. The results have implications for Asian-American political behavior, particularly mobilization, by invoking collective action through panethnic linked fate.

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Are You Threatening Me? Asian‐American Panethnicity in the Trump Era

Arora

Stout

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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“…26 Also, given the difficulty in sampling Asian American voters such as language barriers and incidence rates, as well as wide variance in exit poll estimates, 27 we are cautious about not making claims about how this factored into the actual breakdown of the 2020 presidential election. Future work may leverage precinct-level election returns released by county registrars (Sadhwani 2020(Sadhwani , 2021Lee, Chan, and Masuoka 2021;Leung 2021) to estimate the partisan preferences of Asian Americans at the local and state levels. Some preliminary studies on vote performance that leverage Asian Americans' voter database files do estimate that approximately 67% of Asian American voters voted for Biden (Ghitza and Robinson 2021).…”

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COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

Chan¹,

Kim²,

Leung³

2021

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Extending theories of social exclusion and elite messaging, we argue that Trump’s targeted rhetoric toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic pushes the racial group, largely “Independent” or nonpartisan affiliated, to lean more towards the Democratic Party. We support this claim by combining social media (Study 1) and survey data (Study 2) analysis. Tracing 1.4 million tweets, we find that Trump’s rhetoric has popularized racially charged coronavirus-related terms and that exclusionary, anti-Asian attitudes have increased in the United States since the pandemic began. Next, by analyzing repeated cross-sectional weekly surveys of Asian Americans from July 2019 to May 2020 (n=12,907), we find that the group has leaned more towards the Democratic Party since Trump first made inflammatory remarks towards Asian Americans. Whites, Blacks, and Latina/os, on the other hand, exhibited fewer and less consistent changes in Democratic Party-related attitudes. Our findings suggest that experiences with social exclusion that are driven by elite sources further cement Asian Americans as Democrats.

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“…Whereas voting is one important form of political involvement, scholars have challenged the field to construct political participation more broadly and explore action beyond the ballot box (Lien et al 2001). During a 20-year period, scholarship in Asian American politics has examined a wide range of activities, including voting, donating to political organizations, contacting government officials, protesting, and signing petitions (Chan and Phoenix 2020;Lien 2010;Masuoka, Ramanathan, and Junn 2019;Phoenix and Arora 2018;Sadhwani 2020;Sui and Paul 2017;Wong et al 2011). Although existing work has made important contributions toward understanding Asian American political participation, much of this research overlooks the digital space.…”

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confidence: 99%