David Beavers Graduate Student, American Politics With Jennifer L. Hochschild Overview: Research generally finds that exposure to corrective information attenuates misperceptions, and that as the cost of acquiring information diminishes and the stakes for possessing accurate information increase, factual accuracy increases. In an ongoing project, Jennifer Hochschild and I examine a puzzling counterexample. Despite ample…
Support for the Global Economic Order
George Yean Graduate Student, International Relations Overview: Post-Cold War global economic order is in trouble. As a result of rising protectionism, mercantilism, security concerns, tensions between geopolitical rivals, and the current account and currency crisis, the order has been fundamentally undermined. There are losers and winners in the international order, as there are in the…
Rethinking Peripherality and Politics
Noah Dasanaike, Graduate Student, Comparative Politics Overview: In my research article, I deconstruct the concept of peripherality into several dimensions and estimates the effect of these dimensions on support for the radical right. More specifically, I propose physical, social, and economic dimensions of peripherality, drawing heavily from Bourdieu’s types of capital, and outline measures through…