Sarah F. Anzia

About

Sarah F. Anzia is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy & Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her role involves engaging in research and teaching within the Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on public policy and political science. The page does not provide specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions, only her title and affiliation.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Economics
• Public administration
• Social psychology
• Geography
• Demographic economics
• Law
• Political economy

Selected publications

• Gender Stereotyping and the Electoral Success of Women Candidates: New Evidence from Local Elections in the United States

  British Journal of Political Science · 2022 · 95 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract Research shows that voters often use gender stereotypes to evaluate candidates, which should help women in some electoral contexts and hurt them in others. Yet, most research examines a single context at a time—usually US national elections, where partisanship is strong—and employs surveys and experiments, raising concerns that citizens’ responses may not reflect how they actually vote. By analyzing returns from thousands of nonpartisan local elections, we test whether patterns of women…

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• Party and Ideology in American Local Government: An Appraisal

  Annual Review of Political Science · 2020 · 76 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  For decades, research on US local politics emphasized the distinctiveness of local government, but that has begun to change. In recent years, new data on partisanship and ideology have transformed the study of local politics. Much of the ensuing scholarship has concluded that local politics resembles politics in state and national governments: partisan and ideological. I argue that such a conclusion is premature. So far, this newer literature has been insufficiently attentive to the policies US…

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• Local Interests

  2022 · 39 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Interest Groups on the Inside: The Governance of Public Pension Funds

  Perspectives on Politics · 2019-03-21 · 31 citations

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  New scholarship in American politics argues that interest groups should be brought back to the center of the field. We attempt to further that agenda by exploring an aspect of group influence that has been little studied: the role interest groups play on the inside of government as official participants in bureaucratic decision-making. The challenges for research are formidable, but a fuller understanding of group influence in American politics requires that they be taken on. Here we carry out a…

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• Does Receiving Government Assistance Shape Political Attitudes? Evidence from Agricultural Producers

  American Political Science Review · 2022-04-19 · 18 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  When individuals receive benefits from government programs, does it affect their attitudes toward those programs or toward government generally? A growing literature blends policy feedback theory and political behavior research to explore these questions, but so far it has focused almost exclusively on social policies such as the Affordable Care Act. In this article, we focus on a very different set of government programs that reach a more conservative, rural population: agricultural assistance.…

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Frequent coauthors

• Terry M. Moe

  19 shared

• Charlotte Hill

  University of California, Berkeley

  6 shared

• Samuel Trachtman

  5 shared

• Christopher R. Berry

  University of Chicago

  3 shared

• Rachel Bernhard

  University of Oxford

  2 shared

• JAKE ALTON JARES

  Stanford University

  2 shared

• Neil Malhotra

  2 shared

• Jeffrey R. Henig

  Columbia University

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley

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