Scholars@Duke
Allison Penelope Anoll

Allison Penelope Anoll

Associate Professor of Political Science
Political Science
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Selected Publications

Racial Context(s) in American Political Behavior

Journal Article American Political Science Review · August 1, 2025 Since Key and Allport, scholars have argued that racial context affects political behavior, with some finding out-group contact increases intergroup hostility and others showing the opposite. We argue that Americans exist in multiple racial contexts simult ... Full text Cite

From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities

Journal Article American Political Science Review · February 1, 2025 Classic political behavior studies assert that childhood socialization can contribute to later political orientations. But, as adults consider how to introduce children to politics, what shapes their decisions? We argue socialization is itself political wi ... Full text Cite

A Drop in the Ocean: How Priors Anchor Attitudes Toward the American Carceral State

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · October 23, 2023 That black and white Americans disagree about the carceral state is well established; why this is the case is much less clear. Drawing on group hierarchy theory and the state's role in perpetuating group subordination/domination, we theorize that differenc ... Full text Cite

Black Lives, White Kids: White Parenting Practices Following Black-Led Protests

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · December 1, 2022 Summer 2020 saw widespread protests under the banner Black Lives Matter. Coupled with the global pandemic that kept America's children in the predominant care of their parents, we argue that the latter half of 2020 offers a unique moment to consider whites ... Full text Cite

Contact and Context: How Municipal Traffic Stops Shape Citizen Character

Journal Article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2022 Previous research shows that how the state conducts itself influences citizen attitudes and behaviors through direct and proximal contact; we show the actions of state agents ripple out even further. Joining bureaucratic data on a publicly ob-servable stat ... Full text Cite

The Obligation Mosaic Race and Social Norms in US Political Participation

Book · January 21, 2022 What explains this? Allison Anoll in Community Calls looks at the power of social norms in a community, specifically a civic duty norm, as an explanation for variation in political participation in different racial and ethnic communities. ... Cite

Do felony disenfranchisement laws (De)mobilize? a case of surrogate participation

Journal Article Journal of Politics · October 1, 2019 Recent studies provide conflicting accounts of whether indirect contact with the American carceral state mobilizes. We revisit this controversy, using a large national survey of Black Americans that includes a novel measure of social connections to people ... Full text Cite

What makes a good neighbor? Race, place, and norms of political participation

Journal Article American Political Science Review · August 1, 2018 Social norms are thought to motivate behaviors like political participation, but context should influence both the content and activation of these norms. I show that both race and neighborhood context moderate the social value of political participation in ... Full text Cite

Revisiting Recruitment:

Chapter · September 28, 2016 Full text Cite