Kevin Banda

@kevinkbanda

Senior Researcher at @statesunited.org. Quantitative researcher and political scientist. Spiritual weapon is pizza. Opinions are my own.

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Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Apr 27

Conflict extension in action.

Abstract:

We draw on a dataset of 1,044 state and national party platforms from 1980 to 2025 to track the evolution of Democratic and Republican positions with respect to higher education. The sector enjoyed considerable bipartisan support in the 1980s and early 1990s, with both parties generally expressing the view that 4-year colleges and universities contribute to economic vitality and student advancement. Starting in the mid-1990s, Republicans’ position gradually became more critical—even so, there is considerable diversity in views across states as late as 2010. In recent years, the party’s platforms have become almost uniformly negative toward higher education. The first line of GOP criticism focused on concerns about speech and alleged liberal bias. In the past decade, the party increasingly focused its criticism on higher education’s approach to racial and gender/sexuality issues—just as the intensity of opposition ramped up. Democratic platforms show much more stability but have expressed increased concern about college costs since the 2010s. Democrats also became more likely to express a liberal position on race and gender/sexuality policies just as the GOP became more vocal in criticizing these policies from the right. Our evidence suggests that the shift in the GOP’s positioning began at the national level and was instigated by nationally oriented ideological activists rather than mass-level demands. In a highly polarized and nationalized two-party system, the case of higher education illuminates the dangers that exist for any civil society institution when one party becomes hostile to its purposes and orientation.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Apr 25

Attention @johnlovett.bsky.social.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Feb 28

Nailed it, as always

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Feb 15

This is right now.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Jan 11

I'll be presenting a paper showing that higher levels of confidence that one's own vote will be counted as intended correlates with higher levels of validated turnout among Americans as a whole and among partisans. Confidence that other people's votes will be counted properly doesn't affect turnout.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Aug 7

Did the Albany Walmart set this display up specifically for me?

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· May 4

We find that all critiques led partisans to report lower levels of support for and perceived legitimacy of the bill. This happens even when the criticism is made by the opposing party. We find that while this out-party criticism does inform attitudes, it is less effective than in-party criticism.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Apr 18

Fixed a mistake. Don't see many differences when I split by older and younger Gen Z overall, but younger white Gen Z men do seem to be a bit more Republican than older Gen Z men. This doesn't really fit the young-men-are-radicalizing discourse because men in this group aren't less Democratic.

Kevin Banda@kevinkbanda· Apr 3

Lots of takes floating around out there about how young men have gone hard to the right in ways that differ from everyone else, but I'm not seeing that in the 2024 CES data. Gen Z men look a lot like Millennial men on partisanship, ideological identity, and self-reported vote choice.