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Hannah Paul, Ph.D. Candidate

hannah.paul@missouri.edu


Graduate Student

University of Colorado at Boulder

Address: 333 UCB

City: Boulder, Colorado

Country: United States

About Me:

Hi! My name is Hannah Paul. I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder with concentrations in comparative politics and American politics. I study comparative political behavior, the politics of immigration, and political representation. I have a special interest in time series and pooled times series analysis. My current work focuses on how migrants orient themselves toward politics compared to second-generation and "native" individuals. For my methodological research, I am studying non-linear dynamic models.

Research Interests

Immigration & Citizenship

Comparative Political Behavior

Time Series Analysis

Countries of Interest

Sweden

United States

Germany

Publications:

Journal Articles:

(2021) The Dynamics of Issue Salience: Immigration and Public Opinion (with Jennifer Fitzgerald), Polity

What explains the level of salience people attribute to particular social issues? Do the foreign-born differ from the domestic-born in the importance they attach to certain issues? Theories that link issue salience perceptions to individual-level traits would predict that being an immigrant should matter. Other theories emphasize the role of societal features in shaping how much importance people attribute to certain issues, implying that immigrants and natives should not differ. To assess the relative merits of these accounts, we leverage seventeen years of panel data from Germany, finding that immigrants and natives assign different levels of salience to certain key issues, such as economic development and immigration, but not to others, such as crime. We also find that observed differences in salience perceptions between the foreign- and domestic-born attenuate over time. The dynamic trends we illustrate suggest that issue salience convergence across groups can be considered an indicator of integration between those with deep roots in a society and relative newcomers. We draw on the work of Martin Schain and Gary Freeman, two eminent political scientists, to enrich our theorizing.