I checked 7 public opinion journals on Thursday, June 18, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period June 11 to June 17, I found 6 new paper(s) in 4 journal(s).

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Adapting to the radical right rival? examining legislative speeches in response to SD's electoral success
Esther Mary L. Calvo
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Politics, Groups, and Identities

Theory and action: an exploration of civically engaged research, environmental justice, and political theories of democracy
Curtis Kline, Rosa Castillo Krewson
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Public Opinion Quarterly

Causal Beliefs and the Potential for Political Backlash Against AI
Sophie Borwein, Beatrice Magistro, R Michael Alvarez, Bart Bonikowski, Peter J Loewen
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Artificial intelligence is poised to reconfigure the economy and politics. Although new technologies often produce net economic gains, their costs and benefits are unequally distributed, making them susceptible to politicization. We argue that whether and how AI becomes mobilized for partisan gain will depend on the public’s causal beliefs about the winners and losers of AI. We categorize these causal beliefs into four types using a novel survey instrument fielded with approximately 6,000 Americans and Canadians. Using latent class analysis, we show that while some respondents are supportive of AI, a significant portion of the public theorizes it as a threat—harming consumers and replacing rather than complementing workers’ skills. These beliefs are aligned with political preferences, predicting support for policies that delay job loss over those that help workers adapt, and polarizing voters along existing partisan lines. We conclude that fissures in the public’s attitudes toward AI already exist and are primed for exploitation by political entrepreneurs.
Do Daughters Change Their Fathers? Evidence from the First-Daughter Effect in Japan
Daina Chiba, Yoshikuni Ono
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Family experiences—especially the gender of one’s children—can reshape parents’ political attitudes, challenging traditional models of political socialization. Existing research in advanced democracies documents the “first-daughter effect,” whereby fathers of first-born daughters express more egalitarian views on gender roles. However, evidence from more conservative or non-Western contexts remains scarce and inconclusive. This study examines whether the first-daughter effect occurs in Japan, a country characterized by stable democratic institutions but enduring gender inequality. Using nationally representative survey data from 2000 to 2018 and leveraging the quasi-random assignment of first-child sex, we show that Japanese fathers with first-born daughters exhibit more gender-egalitarian attitudes. They also express greater support for gender-equality policy reforms, such as dual-surname legislation. These effects are confined to gender-related domains and do not extend to broader political ideology or non-gender-related policy preferences. Our findings contribute to research on reverse political socialization by demonstrating that raising daughters can reshape core political attitudes, even within culturally conservative settings. This suggests that private family dynamics may serve as an underrecognized but powerful mechanism for promoting gender equality in public opinion.
The Intersectional Anger Gap: How Race and Gender Condition the Impact of Anger on Participation
Sara Morell, Marzia Oceno
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Political science research has long demonstrated a relationship between anger and political participation, a relationship that is likely to significantly vary across intersectional groups. While anger has increased overall, Black men and women have generally reported lower levels of anger and a weaker relationship between anger and electoral participation than white men and women. However, because of variations in both historical and contemporary access to political voice, as well as legacies of state violence, we expect not only race but also gender to moderate the relationship between anger and both electoral and non-electoral participation. Taking an intersectional approach across two nationally representative surveys, we demonstrate that both race and gender impact the association between anger and electoral as well as non-electoral engagement. We do find that race explains men’s differences in political participation. However, when looking among white and Black women, we find that white women engage in non-electoral participation and Black women engage in electoral participation at higher rates than previous work would predict. In 2020, Black women, along with both white men and women, when angry, were mobilized to participate electorally. Further, while Black women were mobilized by anger to protest in 2020 and 2022 and Black men were mobilized to sign petitions and post online in 2022, anger motivated white women’s non-electoral engagement in both 2020 and 2022. This research informs our understanding of the circumstances through which anger is mobilizing, highlighting, in particular, the breadth of avenues to political engagement taken by white and Black women.

Social Science Computer Review

From Fragmented Narratives to Systemic Critiques: Long-Term Transformations in Korean Twitter Discourse on Sexual Violence
Ji-Myoung Choi, Hye-Won Choi, Chico Q. Camargo
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This study examines how the #MeToo movement reshaped long-term public discourse on sexual violence in South Korea. While research has documented the surge of attention following prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s 2018 disclosure, little is known about how the movement reorganized the broader discursive field beyond the initial moment of crisis. Drawing on discursive institutionalism, we argue that #MeToo acted as a discursive shock that consolidated previously fragmented conversations into more coherent and durable interpretive frameworks. Using an 8-year corpus of 351,582 Korean-language tweets (2015–2023), we apply Dirichlet Multinomial Regression topic modeling and time-series analysis to identify shifts in both topical content and discursive structure. Our findings show a transition from episodic, emotion-driven narratives to stable, thematic frames emphasizing human rights, systemic discrimination, and institutional accountability. We further demonstrate increasing convergence between social media and mainstream news, indicating diffusion and stabilization of these new frames. The results suggest that digital activism can produce enduring transformations in public meaning, illuminating how social movements institutionalize discourse over time.