Martin Gilens’s research while affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and other places

... While this condition did not maximize support among White respondents, it did not backfire either, and it appeared to resonate equally among Republican and Democratic audiences in promoting policy support. These findings are consistent with other recent studies which find no evidence of backlash to explicit centering of race in messages about social policy (15,45,46). Prior research further suggests that failure to discuss equity-enhancing outcomes of policy may contribute to broad misperceptions that race and racism are unrelated to social problems like poverty, which can distort ideas about whether equitable policy is necessary in the first place (47). ...

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Centering historically minoritized populations to design effective messages about an evidence-based policy to advance social equity

... In the United States, one of the most distinct group boundaries is racial identity. As groups, white and Black identifying Americans often have different attitudes and beliefs on issues like law enforcement 12 , healthcare [13][14][15] , religion 16 , and political leaning 17 . At the cognitive and neural levels, the strength of the association between unique concepts can be mapped out as a graph, defining the unique "concept geometry" of representations for each person [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] . ...

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Informational ecosystems partially explain differences in socioenvironmental conceptual associations between U.S. American racial groups

... Classical frameworks, such as the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) model, the Vasicek model, and the Merton jump diffusion model, are widely used to characterize interest rate dynamics, volatility patterns, and financial risks. These models provide a robust mathematical foundation for capturing the temporal evolution of financial variables, elucidating mean-reversion properties, stochastic volatility behaviors, and long-term equilibrium trends (Gilens et al., 2021). For instance, the CIR model plays a crucial role in pricing interest rate derivatives and assessing credit risk, while the Vasicek model serves as a basis for modeling interest rate term structures. ...

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Hybrid Learning-Based Dynamic Optimization for Financial Risk Management:

... While skepticism about the extent to which the public has any substantial effect on public policy is well founded (Gilens and Page 2014;Page and Gilens 2020), it remains the case that ordinary voters are responsible for the Republican Party's clean sweep of executive and legislative elected offices at the federal level. With the outcome of the 2024 election now known, analysts must interrogate why so many more voters responded positively to the MAGA agenda and the Republican Party brand, and in particular why specific groups of people voted in favor of this ideology. ...

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Support for the MAGA Agenda: Race, Gender, and Authoritarianism

... In other words, as social studies educators, we are targets of the indoctrination he describes. There is plentiful research demonstrating that the ruling class organizes to advance its own interests (for example, Carroll & Sapinski, 2018;Mills, 1956;Page & Gilens, 2017;Phillips, 2018;Sklair, 2002;Street, 2014). And that it does this should be considered uncontroversial (Marmol, 2024). ...

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The Illusions of Democracy

... It may be evolutionarily ingrained to assist hardworking, unlucky individuals (Petersen, 2012), but both envy of those with more and compassion for those with less have also evolved in humans (Sznycer et al., 2017). Furthermore, research shows that attitudes of sympathy or empathy toward the poor and envy or other forms of antipathy toward the rich shape policy attitudes (Bayram & Holmes, 2020;Gilens & Thal, 2018;Hansen, 2023;McCall, 2013;Piston, 2018;Sznycer et al., 2017;Witko & Moldogaziev, 2023) and Kreitzer and Smith (2018) show that Americans typically view the poor as more deserving (see also Schneider and Ingram (1993)). Research focused more directly on particularized benefits from government shows that those truly in need of resources are viewed as more deserving, regardless of how hard they work (Jilke & Tummers, 2018;van Oorschot, 2000). ...

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Deserving Government Assistance? Public Support for Aid to Struggling Firms and Workers

... Inequality is real and has negative consequences" (Enns 2015(Enns , 1060. For a continuation of the discussion, see also Gilens (2016). too -is the question civil society becoming political; and more generally, the genesis of political being. ...

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Alienated Citizens: Hegel and Marx on Civil Society

... Rather than focusing on citizens' broad ideological preferences, Gilens focuses on their preferences regarding specific proposed policy changes. Using a unique data set of close to 2,000 survey questions about national policy issues between 1981 and 2002, Gilens (2005Gilens ( , 2012 finds that the aggregate preferences of high-income respondents are much more predictive of policy change than are the preferences of median-income respondents. Gilens and Page (2014) expand this data set to test four different theories of U.S. governance. ...

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Do the Affluent Override Average Americans? Measuring Policy Disagreement and Unequal Influence

... At the same time, the contrast between the finding that both men and women are well represented in terms of congruence and the fact that women's congruence often seems to be entirely driven by their agreement with men, raises issues that have previously been discussed regarding economic inequality in representation. Women, just like low-income voters, mainly seem to receive "coincidental representation" (Gilens 2015). On the one hand, one could argue that our results are of only minor concern because men and women receive the policies they want at roughly the same rate. ...

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A Man’s World? The Policy Representation of Women and Men in a Comparative Perspective

... However, for the taxation of wealth more specifically, the association with left governments has faded over time. As various scholars point out, conditions such as financialization (Lierse, 2021;Piketty et al., 2023), global competition for capital (Mathisen, 2024;Saez and Zucman, 2019;Osterloh and Debus, 2012) and the efforts of the wealthy to avoid taxes (Hacker and Pierson, 2010;Gilens, 2012;Bertrand et al., 2020;Kuhner, 2014) have all pressured left governments to converge with the right and refrain from broadly increasing taxes on wealth. Complementing this perspective, the current article's findings imply that even if a blanket increase of taxes on wealth is no longer politically feasible, left governments continue to use taxes to indirectly influence the return on wealth as well as the scale of overall wealth accumulation. ...

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Still Tilting the Balance: Wealth and Household Taxation by Social Democratic Governments