Category: Research
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Segregation in Suburbia
Multiple generations of my family grew up in Nassau County. But only until I went away could I understand clearly how my livelihood, my opportunities since birth, are darkly entangled with structural neglect toward persons of color.
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Thinking-Feeling Politics
Excerpts extracted from my undergrad senior thesis project exploring what makes political messages persuasive. My claim: a combination of strategic issue framing and concrete emotional appeals.
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Market Globalism and The Tribal Language of Trump
Using intergroup conflict theory, I demonstrate how Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen selectively cultivated conservative allegiances by strategically deploying what I’m calling rhetoric of inclusion and exclusion.
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Watching Political Fiction To Understand Reality
People expose themselves to fictional depictions of government almost as often as they receive filtered messages about actual government activity. So why not examine what primetime dramas have to say?
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Bicameral Compromise and Issue Framing
Comprehensive immigration reform failed. An education overhaul succeeded. What explains these divergent outcomes? Cooperation between our legislative chambers, or “bicameral compromise”.
Matt Schwartz 