Democratic Institutions and Public Opinion
Mark D. Ramirez. 2013. "The Policy Origins of Congressional Approval." Journal of Politics, 75(1): 198-209.
Paul M. Kellstedt, David A.M. Peterson, and Mark D. Ramirez. 2010. "The Macro Politics of a Gender Gap." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(3): 477-498.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2009. "The Dynamics of Partisan Conflict on Congressional Approval." American Journal of Political Science, 53(3): 680-693.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2008. "Procedural Perceptions and Support for the U.S. Supreme Court." Political Psychology, 29(5): 675-698.
Public Opinion toward Public-Private Partnerships
Mark D. Ramirez. Forthcoming. "Understanding Public Blame Attributions When Private Military Contractors are Responsible for Civilian Casualties." Policy Sciences.
Amanda McCubbins and Mark D. Ramirez. Forthcoming. "The Effects of Dehumanizing Language on Public Opinion toward Federal and `For-Profit' Immigrant Detention." Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Mark D. Ramirez and Reed Wood. 2019. "Public Attitudes toward Private Military Corporations: Insight from Principal-agent Theory." Journal of Conflict Resolution. 63(6): 1433-1459.
Peter Enns and Mark D. Ramirez. 2018. "Privatizing Punishment: Testing theories of public support for private prison and immigration detention facilities." Criminology. 56(3): 546-573.
Mark D. Ramirez and Paul G. Lewis. 2018. "Beliefs About Corporate America and the Structure of Opinions Toward Privatization." Political Behavior. 40(4): 1011-1034.
Public Opinion and the Criminal Justice System
Mark D. Ramirez. 2015. “Racial discrimination, fear of crime, and variability in Blacks’ preferences for punitive and preventative anti-crime policies." Political Behavior, 37(2): 419-439.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2015. “African American’s principled opposition to prison privatization." Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 13(3): 217-236.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2014. “Complex choices: African Americans and the death penalty." Race & Justice, 4(2): 75-97.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2013. "Punitive Sentiment." Criminology, 52(2): 329-364.
Mark D. Ramirez. 2013. "Americans changing views toward crime and punishment." Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(4): 1006-1031.
Nicholson-Crotty, Sean, David A.M. Peterson, and Mark D. Ramirez. 2009. "Dynamic Representation(s): Federal Criminal Justice Policy and an Alternative Dimension of Public Mood." Political Behavior, 31(4): 485-655.
Opinion Formation among Mass Publics
Paul M. Kellstedt, Mark D. Ramirez, Arnold Vedlitz, and Sammy Zahran. 2019. “Does political sophistication moderate value conflict? The case of climate change." British Journal of Political Science, 49(4): 1309-1332.
Reed Wood and Mark D. Ramirez. 2018. “Exploring the micro-foundations of the relationship between gender equality and peace." International Studies Review. 20(3): 345-367.
Mark D. Ramirez and Nathan Erickson. 2014. “Partisan bias and information discounting in economic judgments." Political Psychology, 35(3): 309-445.
"Ramirez and Peterson have given me a lot to think about. There was a time we
all assumed that anti-Latino sentiment was a shadow of the much more virulent
anti-black racism but could be understood and studied on the same terms. These
authors suggest that we need to reconceptualize anti-Latino biases and their policy
implications as a distinct phenomenon, rooted in and exacerbated by the historical
development of the population and the institutions created to disadvantage
them. This work – its conclusions, and its implications – is a must-read for anyone
seriously trying to grapple with understanding how, in 2020, 10,000 children can be
locked in cages with the tacit approval of the majority of the American people.”
GARY M. SEGURA, Professor and Dean, University of California–Los Angeles
“For too long, even as the Latino population has grown significantly in the US,
social science research on race and ethnic attitudes has been without a careful,
comprehensive, and valid measure of contemporary White attitudes toward
Latinos. Ramirez and Peterson’s research closes this gap, helping us more fully
understand the social, economic, and political consequences of how Whites
perceive Latinos.”
ASHLEY JARDINA, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University
“In this book, Ramirez and Peterson address an exceedingly important subject. The
authors provide historical context and show how animus toward Latinos matters for
political attitudes and political behavior today. They also introduce new measures
that other scholars are sure to use in future work. Theoretically grounded and
empirically convincing, Ignored Racism is a must-read.”
BRAD JONES, Professor of Political Science, University of California–Davis