Natalie Masuoka

About

Natalie Masuoka is an Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Department and Political Science at UCLA. Her research interests include racial and ethnic politics, immigration, political behavior, and public opinion. She authored the book 'The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion and Immigration,' which examines how different racial groups view immigration and immigrants, and this work was awarded the 2014 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association. Her second book, 'Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States,' explores the rise of multiracial Americans and its impact on politics, and was recognized as the best book in political behavior by the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Professor Masuoka earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and her B.A. from CSU Long Beach. Prior to her position at UCLA, she taught at Tufts University and Duke University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• Gender studies
• Psychology
• Political economy
• Criminology
• Public administration
• Law and economics
• Demographic economics

Selected publications

• The Gender Gap Is a Race Gap: Women Voters in US Presidential Elections

  Perspectives on Politics · 2019-12-30 · 57 citations

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  Scholarship on women voters in the United States has focused on the gender gap, showing that, since the 1980s, women are more likely to vote for Democratic Party candidates than men. The persistence of the gender gap has nurtured the conclusion that women are Democrats. This article presents evidence upending that conventional wisdom. It analyzes data from the American National Election Study to demonstrate that white women are the only group of female voters who support Republican Party candida…

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• Revisiting the brown-utility heuristic: a comparison of Latino linked fate in 2006 and 2016

  Politics Groups and Identities · 2019-07-03 · 43 citations

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  In one of the first quantitative articles published on Latino linked fate, Sanchez and Masuoka (2010) found that immigrants and those with lower incomes are those with the strongest levels of linked fate and, that interestingly, the experience of discrimination did not have a significant effect on linked fate. They concluded by discussing the possible dampening role assimilation and social mobility might have on Latino political cohesion. But over a decade has now passed since the original data…

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• The Asian American Vote in 2020: Indicators of Turnout and Vote Choice

  Political Behavior · 2022 · 38 citations

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• Sexual Harassment and Candidate Evaluation: Gender and Partisanship Interact to Affect Voter Responses to Candidates Accused of Harassment

  Political Behavior · 2021 · 14 citations

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  Abstract Public airing of incidents of sexual harassment have moved abuse from the shadows to the light, spurring mass response in the form of #MeToo and “Time’s Up.” While sexual harassment holds negative valence, election outcomes suggest that not all voters punish leaders accused of harassment. We argue there is systematic variation in how voters respond to candidates accused of harassment because evaluations are made within the context of both partisanship and the gendered issue of sexual ha…

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• Women Voters

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2024-09-27 · 7 citations

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  Women Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican and women of color are majority Democratic voters. Second, due to the unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, white women have greater agency to sort by partisan…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jane Junn

  15 shared

• Bernard Grofman

  University of California, Irvine

  8 shared

• Scott L. Feld

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  6 shared

• Bernie Grofman

  University of California, Irvine

  5 shared

• Nathan Chan

  Loyola Marymount University

  3 shared

• And Scott Feld

  3 shared

• Gabriel R. Sánchez

  Firalis (France)

  3 shared

• James H. Fowler

  University of California, San Diego

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• 2014 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science As…
• Best book in political behavior by the Race, Ethnicity and P…

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