New w/@scottclifford.bsky.social.
Lots of work uses agree-disagree scales, and a lit review shows these are 1) frequently just measured in one direction (agree = higher trait) and 2) correlated with each other.
This has potentially big issues for conclusions.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Would love to know more about it! Feel free to reach out with more detail thru DM/email
Really important new evidence that American attitudes are much more inclusive than conventional debates suggest, though this support is conditional on policy design. People are more supportive of integration when it includes social support and clear eligibility criteria, which they view as fair.
Check it out! I welcome constructive comments and feedback. osf.io/preprints/so...
🙋 Bonus FAQ: Are views about fairness the same thing as ideology? Nope. I examine the construct validity of fairness against ideology (and a lot of other things) and find them to be distinct measurements.
🤝 Plus, I identify points of policy agreement among liberals and conservatives.
✨️ The big takeaway: The measurement of multidimensional perceptions of fairness goes beyond conventional ideological debates and offers guidance for designing democratic policies.
3️⃣ I find little evidence of economic or prejudice-based cultural threat in guiding policy support or perceptions of fairness.
2️⃣ Main experimental result: Agreement with different dimensions of fairness and support increases when policies *include* social services and exclusion criteria (i.e. proof of legal status, a background check).
1️⃣ Fairness needs to be measured multidimensionally. Two people may agree that a policy is "unfair" for vastly different reasons, but if survey research only asks them "what's fair," we are missing this nuance and committing measurement error.
My job market paper is now available as a preprint! 🚨
Using survey evidence with a conjoint experiment, I test how state-level immigrant integration policy features affect perceptions of fairness and support.
3 key points, the big takeaway, the link, and a bonus below⬇️🧵
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺
1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment
on repdata.com
3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study
details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1
please repost!
Another #SPSA Borders and Migration CwC in the books and a convenient excuse to finally visit New Orleans!
🗳️ How does having more than one citizenship shape political participation?
➡️ S Jung , Y Lee & C Wong find US born dual citizens are more active than naturalized dual citizens. Having dual citizenship plays a relevant role in civic engagement www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
Inclusive – not hostile – state policies promote linked fate among Latino immigrants finds @tntrummel.bsky.social of UC Santa Barbara blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
🎯 Overall, two key contributions are:
1. A different measurement approach to state immigrant policy climates than seen in some related work (and how results vary)
2. Evidence of immigrant linked fate, a nascent area of work
This finding is in tension with much prior work that shows that hostile policy climates provoke linked fate.
I measure state immigrant policy inclusiveness using an additive index on policy issues spanning public benefits, law enforcement, and integration.
📌 Inclusive policies are associated with *increased* feelings of linked fate to other immigrants, but there is no effect on co-ethnic linked fate.
Over the summer I published the first article of my dissertation!
In this paper, I study how state immigrant policies affect Latino immigrant linked fate.
Drawing on a large sample of Latino immigrants (LINES 2016), I use co-ethnic and immigrant linked fate as the DVs.
See more⬇️🧵 (1/5)
In AP research:
1. Moral judgements and cultural values - perception of law and order is important, even to Dems
2. Concerns over criminality, being "unvetted"
3. Perception that undocumented = poor and more likely to use welfare (untrue)
A good place to start: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Had a great time presenting a snippet of my JMP at @ucriverside.bsky.social for @priec.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks to the organizers and for the thoughtful feedback from the audience. #UCRPRIEC20
If you’re interested in American immigration attitudes and unique ways of assessing different dimensions of fairness, come see me this Thursday at 8:00 am at #APSA2025.
The evidence comes from a large original survey and conjoint experiment I fielded this year (n=3,000+).
Kirill Zhirkov & Robert H. Brehm find that calling immigrants “illegal” or “undocumented” doesn’t affect perceptions in experiments. However, people’s preferences for these terms do reflect their broader attitudes toward immigration policy.
Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📢 Chan & Landgrave find that many Americans hold an immigrant identity—distinct from race or origin—and that its strength varies by race and generation.
🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎉We're celebrating another successful Research Transparency & Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Last week, we hosted 28 early-career researchers for a course exploring preregistration, evidence aggregation, and other topics. Feeling inspired by scholars making open science happen!
🚨Do pro-immigration reforms trigger backlash?🚨
In our new paper, we examine how Americans reacted to high-profile immigration reforms using an unexpected-event design and all possible daily surveys. In short: no backlash to DACA—but potential backlash to Trump’s Muslim Ban.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Immigrants of just about all statuses in the US face significant restrictions on access to federally funded public benefits. Even when eligible, they tend to use welfare at much lower rates than the US born.
Check out our new explainer for all the details: www.migrationpolicy.org/content/immi...
1. When a country turns authoritarian, democracy often bounce back. A recent article shows that this happens in more than half (52%) of all episode - this is what they call U-Turns. The statistics look even better in recent years; here democracy has made a comeback in 73% of the cases.
