CHRISTOPHER T. STOUT
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Books:
The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals. (University of Virginia Press) COMING IN THE FALL OF 2020

Summary:

Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016, many prominent scholars and political pundits argued that a successful Democratic Party in the future must abandon identity politics. While these calls for Democrats to distance themselves from such strategies have received much attention, there is scant academic work that empirically tests whether nonracial campaigns provide an advantage to Democrats today. As Christopher Stout explains, those who argue for deracialized appeals to voters may not be considering how several high-profile police shootings and acquittals, increasing evidence of growing racial economic disparities, retrenchments on voting rights, and the growth of racial hate groups have made race a more salient issue now than in the recent past. Moreover, they fail to account for how demographic changes in the United States have made racial and ethnic minorities a more influential voting bloc.

The Case for Identity Politics finds that racial appeals are an effective form of outreach for Democratic candidates and enhance, rather than detract from, their electability in our current political climate.

Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, And Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama. University of Virginia Press

Summary:
Bringing Race Back In addresses several timely questions about political behavior, black candidates, and race in 21st century America. In particular, Bringing Race Back In explores whether black candidates can make racial appeals to the black community without sacrificing white and Latino support. The study uses content analysis of over 2,000 newspaper articles for over 30 presidential, U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial elections with African American candidates in combination with the quantitative analysis of state exit polls and U.S. Census voter surveys.

The results reported in this book demonstrate that black candidates who make positive racial appeals (e.g. racial appeals which demonstrate that the candidate will either advance black policy interests or highlight the candidate’s connection to the black community without attacking outside political players) not only perform better among black voters, but they also improve their standing among Latino and white voters. This finding counters conventional wisdom which suggests that black candidates can only succeed in majority white settings if they distance themselves from the black electorate. Overall, Bringing Race Back In maintains that black candidates can reach the highest echelons of American politics without sacrificing their presumed racial values and ties to the black community.

Link to Book Profile at University of Virginia Press Website

Articles:

Jennifer R. Garcia and Christopher Stout "Responding to Racial Resentment: How Racial Resentment Shapes the Rhetoric of Members of Congress." Political Research Quarterly

Gosia Mikolajczak, Leah Ruppanner, Kelsy Kretschmer, and Christopher Stout "Gender
Linked Fate Explains Lower Legal Abortion Support among Married Women" PLOS ONE


Gregory J. Leslie, Christopher T. Stout and Naomi Tolbert "The Ben Carson Effect: Do Voters
Prefer Racialized or Deracialized Black Conservatives?" Social Science Research


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Maneesh Arora and Christopher Stout "Does Letters for Black Lives Matter: Co-Ethnic Mobilization, Asian Americans, and Public Opinion." Political Research Quarterly


Christopher Stout and Keith Baker "Reactions to Claims of Racism and Attitudes about Race" Social Science Quarterly
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Christopher Stout, Kristine Coulter and Bree Edwards "#BlackRepresentation: Descriptive
Representation, Intersectionality, and Politicians Responses to Black Political Movements on
Twitter."Mobilization​


Christopher Stout, Kelsy Kretschmer, and Leah Ruppanner. 2017. "Gender Linked Fate,
Race/Ethnicity, and the Marriage Gap in American Politics." Political Research Quarterly


Christopher Stout and Danvy Le. 2017. "Traiting Places: Race and the Evaluation of Black
and White Presidential Candidates" Presidential Studies Quarterly


Christopher Stout and Paul Martin. 2016."Is Overreporting Equal? The Impact of Descriptive Candidates on Black and Latino, Overreporting in Surveys"  Research and Politics

Christopher Stout and Reuben Kline. Forthcoming. Racial Salience, Viability and the Wilder Effect Evaluating Polling Accuracy for Black Candidates. Public Opinion Quarterly

Vanessa Stout, Kelsy Kretschmer, and Christopher Stout. Forthcoming. The Continuing Significance of History: An Active Learning Simulation to Teach about the Origins of Racial Inequality Journal of Political Science Education


Christopher Stout and Jennifer R. Garcia. Forthcoming. "The Big Tent Effect: Descriptive Candidates and Minority Political Partisanship" American Politics Research
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Shane Gleason and Christopher Stout. Forthcoming. “Is There Really Any Change? Exploring the Causal Relationship Between Black Representation and Black Empowerment” Journal of Black Studies


Kristine Coulter, Jennifer R. Garcia, and Christopher Stout. 2014. “Representing the Underrep- resented: Descriptive Representation and Political Interests of Women in the 2008 Election.” Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs 

Christopher Stout and Katherine Tate. 2013. "The 2008 Presidential Election, Political Efficacy, and Group Empowerment" Politics, Groups and Identities 


Christopher Stout and Katherine Tate. 2013. “Voter Identification Laws and Other Election Mechanisms in a Multiracial America” National Political Science Review


Christopher Stout and Danvy Le. 2012. "Living the Dream: Barack Obama and Blacks Changing Perceptions of the American Dream" Social Science Quarterly


Christopher Stout and Reuben Kline. 2011.“I'm Not Voting for Her: Polling Discrepancies and Female Candidates” Political Behavior 


Mara Marks and Christopher Stout. 2011. “Can the American Dream Survive the New Multi-Ethnic America? Evidence from Los Angeles.” Sociological Forum 


Mara Marks and Christopher Stout. 2011. “Rating Los Angeles’ Top Cop: Descriptive Representation and Support for the Police Chief” Race and Justice


Natalie Masuoka, Louis DeSipio, and Christopher Stout. 2008. “Asian American Immigrants as the New Electorate: Exploring Turnout and Registration of a Growing Community” Asian American Policy Review




 




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