Shaun Wilkinson
Biography
Policy feedback theory argues that policies shape the public’s attitudes and political behavior. Research in this field typically assumes that all citizens respond to policy in the same way. But, I argue instead that policy’s effects differ across various racial and ethnic groups. In my dissertation, I test this argument by looking at how two policies, immigration policy and criminal justice policy, affect the orientations, identities, and attitudes of Latinos, blacks, and whites.
