Daniel Laurison

Author of Producing Politics, Beacon Press
also: Fellow.
Trans, parent.

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I'm mostly now on bluesky, going to take this app off my phone. See many of you there, I hope. https://t.co/dXx6GZbtb0

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I had a great conversation with Karen Jagoda on her Digital Politics Podcast - about
"Connecting with Disengaged Working-Class and Low-Income Voters." We talked about the political disconnect, its causes, and how to build bridge the divide.
https://t.co/KoVXsR6NZE

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I'll be at NYC's Institute for Public Knowledge tomorrow night in conversation with Lorenza Antonucci (& Sheri Berman). We'll be talking about Antonucci's new book, Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Popular Support. Come out if you can - RSVP
https://t.co/GTHXwY5xME

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something.

If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do.

If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at https://t.co/MKcXBtOnEx

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I will be at the Philly No Kings March on Saturday, and I hope, again, millions of us are out. These big marches don't automatically make change, but they show how many people know that fascism is not OK - important for the bystanders to see and for the resisters to experience.

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I wrote about how we talk about political "issues" and how that connects to political disconnection, and a chart I tell people about all the time - now I can just link to this post.

on both substack & my own blog:
https://t.co/CJ0nNOTMGl
https://t.co/w174Zbld5Q

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I had a great conversation with Ben Joravsky. We talked about The Political Disconnect - why so many low-income and working-class people don't vote. PLUS you can hear me be very wrong about football (I confused the Dallas Cowboys and the Patriots I think?)
https://t.co/06Cmy1ANVF

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

If you were at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting today and you did not come to Tey Meadow's Robin M Williams lecture, you missed a brilliant, moving, engaging, important talk.

If you have a way to invite Tey to your campus or community, do it.

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Swarthmore made my work on the Political Disconnect its lead news story on the home page - https://t.co/N0tCsa9QDO

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

And there are still a few spots - Thursday March 5th in DC - register here ASAP - https://t.co/PxSAN0lKUm

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Amidst all that's happening with US democracy, this week we're bringing together an amazing crew of scholars and political professionals (many are both) to discuss where we are and where we go from here, and how academics can work with people in government, politics, and policy.

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

We can announce three new speakers:
Kristen Clarke, Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice
US Representative Greg Casar, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Up to now The Political Disconnect has existed only digitally; I wasn't sure it made sense to print in an era when so much of what we do is online & over email. But I had 50 copies printed and it is so nice to have real physical printed paper.

Online: https://t.co/dXFxbh8nVo

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Today, 2/23, 3pm Eastern: a Zoom talk about The Political Disconnect - the distance between what politics should do and how everyday people experience it.
When we asked Lala what she thinks of when she hears the word "politics" she said "a disconnection."
https://t.co/XFHKbGNohZ

[Theory of Change @TheoryChange]

Financially struggling Americans have no interest in participating in a political system that’s failed them

Sociologist @Daniel_Laurison discusses new research on why many low-income people don't vote https://t.co/ucZ4cIqX9v

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

This Monday Feb 23, 3pm Eastern, hear more about "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might Be Mobilized." I'll be talking with Dr. James Jones about why so many people are disengaged & what can be done.

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

I really enjoyed this conversation with Matthew Sheffield - we discussed my new report (https://t.co/7aciv4AFtw), the benefits of qualitative research, and why Democrats are not doin enough to bring low-income & working-class people into politics.
https://t.co/HKdT0q5P6d

[The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly]

ONLINE FIRST

In this new TSQ article, Cihan Tuğal (@CihanTugal), Jonathan Smucker, and Kip Roberts examine how emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists within the Republican and Democratic parties.

Read more at https://t.co/nxCkPbpdsN

[Robb Willer @RobbWiller]

🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨

We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

And they also didn't believe that politicians or electoral politics were likely to make real changes in their lives; many told us they did not important differences between the parties.

(That's not how I see it; but this is about how what our respondents said.)

[Daniel Laurison @Daniel_Laurison]

Note - many opinion polls and most campaign polls exclude people who are not registered or unlikely to vote, and in general nonvoters are less likely to respond to most polls & surveys, so in a very real sense people who aren't voting have their views discounted/ignored.