The influence of candidate race and ethnicity: the case of Asian Americans

Sadhwani, Sara

doi:10.1080/21565503.2021.1877749

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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

Perspect. polit.

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

Chan¹,

Kim²,

Leung³

2021

Perspect. polit.

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“…In a second stage analysis, we sought to evaluate legislator responsiveness after controlling for potentially confounding factors using a logistic regression model. First, we identified the race/ethnicity of all legislators by using membership in ethnic caucuses, self-declared statements, and newspaper reports, consistent with other scholarship (see, for example, Fraga, Gonzalez Juenke, and Shah 2020 and Sadhwani 2022). We considered that a Latinx legislator might be intrinsically motivated to respond to a Latinx constituent with a shared identity, as has been found for Black legislators (Broockman 2013).…”

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¿Quién Importa? State Legislators and Their Responsiveness to Undocumented Immigrants

Garcia

Sadhwani

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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Do undocumented immigrants matter as constituents for state legislators? In this study we examine legislator responsiveness to differing ethnicities and immigration statuses of immigrant constituents through a field experiment conducted in 2014 in 44 U.S. state legislatures. We advance a theory of citizen advantage, that citizens and particularly white citizens will reap greater representation from legislators, but that even undocumented immigrants can constitute a meaningful subconstituency that receives some, albeit less, responsiveness from legislators. Each legislator received a constituent request that was identical in content and varied the constituent’s race/ethnic identity by using a first name and surname cue (Latinx or Eastern European) and immigration status (undocumented/citizen/control). We found that legislators respond less to undocumented constituents regardless of their ethnicity and are more responsive to both the Latinx and Eastern European-origin citizen treatments, with Republicans being more biased in their responsiveness to undocumented residents. Nuances within the data reveal that despite limited electoral incentive, some legislators are responsive to undocumented immigrants regardless of race or ethnicity; however, when immigration status is not cued, white residents receive greater responsiveness than Latinx.

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“…We used the eiCompare package to conduct iterative EI and RxC EI (Collingwood, Oskooii, Garcia-Rios, & Barreto, 2016). This package wraps around eiPack (Lau et al, 2007) and WRU (Khanna & Imai, 2020), and facilitates easy comparison of different EI methods (M. Barreto et al, 2019;Leung, 2021;Sadhwani, 2021;Sadhwani & Mendez, 2018).…”

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Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses

Decter-Frain,

Sachdeva,

Collingwood

et al. 2023

Sociological Methods & Research

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We consider the cascading effects of researcher decisions throughout the process of quantifying racially polarized voting (RPV). We contrast three methods of estimating precinct racial composition, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), fully Bayesian BISG, and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP), and two algorithms for performing ecological inference (EI), King’s EI and EI:RxC using eiCompare. Using data from two different elections we identify circumstances in which different combinations of methods produce divergent results, comparing against ground-truth data where available. We first find that BISG outperforms CVAP at estimating racial composition, though fully Bayesian BISG does not yield further improvements. Next, in a statewide election, we find that all combinations of methods yield similarly reliable estimates of RPV. However, county-level analyses and results from a non-partisan school board election reveal that BISG and CVAP produce divergent estimates of Black preferences in elections with low turnout and few precincts. Our results suggest that methodological choices can meaningfully alter conclusions about RPV, particularly in smaller, low-turnout elections.

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The influence of candidate race and ethnicity: the case of Asian Americans

Cited by 7 publications

References 57 publications

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

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

¿Quién Importa? State Legislators and Their Responsiveness to Undocumented Immigrants

Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses

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