Josh Robison
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.A. Robison
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 5071
- j.a.robison@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7472-2247
Josh Robison is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.
Josh Robison is assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science.
His research uses both experimental and survey methods to investigate the role of group identities (e.g. partisanship, social class) and political communications from political parties in affecting the public’s political attitudes and behaviour. Before joining the Institute of Political Science at Leiden, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University for four years. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2014. His work has been published in The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and the British Journal of Sociology.
PhD supervision
Josh is available to supervise PhD students in the areas of:
- Political communication
- Political psychology
- Public opinion
- Electoral behaviour
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- Robison Joshua (2022), Valuing Politics: Explaining Citizen’s Normative Conceptions of Citizenship, Political Behavior : .
- Robison J. (2021), What's the Value of Partisan Loyalty? Partisan Ambivalence, Motivated Reasoning, and Correct Voting in US Presidential Elections, Political Psychology 42(6): 977-993.
- Robison J.A. (2021), Can elites escape blame by explaining themselves?: Suspicion and the limits of elite explanations, British Journal of Political Science : 1-20.
- Robison J.A. (2021), Partisan influence in suspicious times, Journal of Politics : .
- Robison J.A. (2020), Does social disagreement attenuate partisan motivated reasoning? A test case concerning economic evaluations, British Journal of Political Science 50(4): 1245 - 1261.
- Klein E. & Robison J. (2020), Like, Post, and Distrust? How Social Media Use Affects Trust in Government, Political Communication 37(1): 46-64.
- Klar S., Leeper T. & Robison J. (2020), Studying Identities with Experiments: Weighing the Risk of Posttreatment Bias Against Priming Effects, Journal of Experimental Political Science 7(1): 56 - 60.
- Robison J., Stubager R., Mads T. & Tilley J. (2020), Does class-based campaigning work? How working class appeals attract and polarize voters, Comparative Political Studies : .
- Robison J.A. & Kevins A. (2020), Who should get a say? Race, law enforcement guidelines, and systems of representation, Political Psychology 42(1): 71-91.
- Robison J. (2020), Does issue importance predict learning about candidates?, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 32(4): .
- Robison J. & Moskowitz R. (2019), The Group Basis of Partisan Affective Polarization, Journal of Politics 81(3): 1075-1079.
- Robison J.A., Stevenson R.T., Druckman J.N., Jackman S., Katz J.N. & Vavrack L. (2018), An Audit of Political Behavior Research, SAGE Open 8(3): 1-14.
- Robison J., Leeper T.J. & Druckman J.N. (2018), Do Disagreeable Political Discussion Networks Undermine Attitude Strength?, Political Psychology 39(2): 479-494.
- Stubager R., Tilley J.R., Evans G.A., Robison J.A. & Sommer Harrits G. (2018), In the eye of the beholder: What determines how people sort others into social classes?, Social Science Research 76: 132-143.
- Leeper T.J. & Robison J. (2018), More Important, but for What Exactly? The Insignificant Role of Subjective Issue Importance in Vote Decisions, Political Behavior 42: 239-259.
- Robison J. & Stubager R. (2018), The class pictures in citizens’ minds, The British Journal of Sociology 69(4): 1220--1247.
- Robison J. (2017), The Role of Elite Accounts in Mitigating the Negative Effects of Repositioning, Political Behavior 39(3): 609-628.
- Robison J.A. (2017), The Social Rewards of Engagement: Appealing to Social Motivations to Stimulate Political Interest at High and Low Levels of External Efficacy, Political Studies 65(1): 24-41.
- Robison J. & Mullinix K.J. (2016), Elite Polarization and Public Opinion: How Polarization Is Communicated and Its Effects, Political Communication 33(2): 261-282.
- Robison J. (2015), Gaps in political interest: following public affairs in surveys from Gallup, Pew, and the ANES, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 27(3): 406--416.
- Druckman J.N., Gilli M., Klar S. & Robison J. (2015), Measuring drug and alcohol use among college student-athletes, Social Science Quarterly 96(2): 369--380.
- Robison J. (2015), Who knows? Question format and political knowledge, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 27(1): 1--21.
- Druckman J.N., Gilli M., Klar S. & Robison J. (2014), The Role of Social Context in Shaping Student-Athlete Opinions, PLoS ONE 9(12): e115159.