Authors Meet Critics: "Steadfast Democrats"

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

This panel is an authors-meet-critics discussion of Ismail White and Chryl Laird’s book, Steadfast Democrats, by Princeton University Press. The book investigates African American party identification using a multi-method approach including lab-in-the-field experiments. It argues for the importance of social conformity in explaining continuing Democratic identification despite significant ideological and class heterogeneity. It substantially revises classic studies of party identification and race such as Dawson’s *Behind the Mule*.

Sub Unit

• Division 37: Public Opinion

Cosponsor

• Division 32: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Chair

• Tali Mendelberg Princeton University

Presenters

• Martin Gilens UCLA Department of Public Policy

• Matt A. Barreto University of California, Los Angeles

• Taeku Lee University of California, Berkeley

• Lauren D. Davenport Stanford University

• Michael C. Dawson University of Chicago