In the News: Shana Kushner Gadarian
Gadarian provides post-election commentary on TRT World, WAER
"These baseless accusations of electoral fraud do a lot of damage to the public’s belief in the electoral system and in democracy itself," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. "And that is extremely damaging to our democracy."
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Gadarian quoted in NPR article on COVID-19, support for Trump
"If you are someone who already trusts the president and you trust him to handle the crisis, then you are both not as concerned as Democrats are and you're more willing to trust that he is the person who can keep you safe and keep the country safe from COVID," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Bennett, Gadarian quoted in New York Times on voters' fear for our democracy
Professor Emeritus David Bennett expresses concern that Americans view President Trump as a president who has "taken a pickax to the tent poles of democratic institutions." According to Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, one of the ways the President's strategy has been ineffective "is telling people not to be worried about something that is in fact worrisome."
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Gadarian cited in Atlantic, New York Times articles on perceptions of Trump
"In a threatening environment, Americans reward candidates and parties perceived to hold hawkish positions" and "punish candidates perceived to be dovish," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian discusses the effect of anxiety on political behavior on KGOU
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Gadarian speaks to FiveThirtyEight, WAER about Trump's diagnosis
"Attitudes and behaviors around COVID-19 have become really concrete at this point — it will take a lot to move them in a significant, lasting way," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian speaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation about partisanship and people's behaviors
"We've been talking to the same [3,000] Americans since early March, every six weeks or so," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. What they found is that Americans were "using their partisanship as the top way to screen new information and decide what to do."
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Gadarian speaks to CBS Sunday Morning about the politics of COVID-19
"We thought that the more worried people were about COVID, the more likely they were to be following all of the, kind of public health best practices," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. "And that's not what we found. What we found was that the biggest divider in people's behaviors was not their age, not their demographics, not their education; it was their partisanship."
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Scholars join faculty for 2020-21; new chairs announced
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Gadarian featured in Deseret News article on unmasked politicians
"The biggest risk" with Republicans following best public health practices and wearing masks, "is that the president will pick you out for ridicule, or if you had someone running against you, the president would endorse that person," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian discusses the politics behind face masks on You Are Not So Smart podcast
Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, explains that face masks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, became politicized and that we need to prevent a similar reaction when it comes time to convince the public they should get vaccinated for a similar public health crisis.
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Gadarian cited in FiveThirtyEight article on COVID-19, partisan divide
Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, says she was surprised to see such enormous divides emerge as the pandemic wore on, as according to other research she’s conducted, moments of extreme anxiety and uncertainty can actually make people more open to new sources of information.
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Gadarian quoted in NY Times article on face mask use in the US
"The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior," says Associate Professor of Political Science Shana Gadarian.
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Gadarian quoted in LA Times article on GOP politicians and coronavirus
Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, says people tend to get cues from their elected officials. "The political leaders of the Republican party for a long time have not had a consistent message about what keeps people safe," Gadarian says.
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Gadarian quoted in Scientific American on impact of COVID-19 on voting
"If Democrats are taking more precautions because of the coronavirus, we may see them not turn out as much as they would have without the pandemic," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian research on partisanship, COVID-19 cited in LA Times, Slate
75% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans said they wore masks in public, finds a study conducted by Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, and her colleagues.
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Gadarian discusses partisan divide around COVID-19 with Christian Science Monitor
“People are taking their cues from political leadership and from doctors, and to the extent that those are different, people will turn to their more trusted sources,” says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian quoted in Huffington Post article on coronavirus, partisanship
"Normally, I think that people take cues from the president but since his messaging has been relatively muddled... people seem to be filling in their preferred position for his," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian featured in Vox article on anxiety, coronavirus, and politics
"We’ve recommended that the medical experts be up front and center, and the political leaders take a step back and defer to the doctors and to the head of the health agencies, because that’s who anxious people want to hear from," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
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Gadarian quoted in Science article on coronavirus messaging
"When you hear [health] experts saying one thing and the head of your [political] party saying another, that’s a troubling kind of thing to decide," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. In the United States, "What we’re seeing evidence of is that Republicans are basically going with what the president says."
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