Diana Mutz

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Diana Mutz
Born1962 (age 6162)
CitizenshipAmerican
Education Northwestern University (B.S., 1984)
Stanford University (A.M., 1985; Ph.D., 1988)
Known for Political communication
AwardsLifetime Career Achievement Award in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association (2011)
Scientific career
Fields Political science
Communication studies
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Yours, mine and ours: Information sources, perceptions of unemployment and their political consequences  (1988)

Diana Carole Mutz (born 1962) [1] is the Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. She is known for her research in the field of political communication. [2] She formerly served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Political Behavior . [1]

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In 2007, Mutz received the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University for her 2006 book Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy. She was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. [3]

In 2021, she was elected member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences. [4]

Research

According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Mutz explained that "evidence of voters politicizing personal economic hardship has been exceedingly rare," over many decades of studying the issue. She argued that contrary to the commonly held belief that economic hardship drive many people to vote for Donald Trump in 2016, Trump won the election because of the fear that "traditionally high-status Americans" such as whites, Christians and men, feel threatened that they will lose their privileged status to minorities if they are given a chance to succeed in American society. [5]

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References

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  2. "Diana Mutz". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  3. "Diana C. Mutz". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  4. "News from the National Academy of Sciences". April 26, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021. Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: … Mutz, Diana C.; director, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics, and Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, entry in member directory: "Member Directory". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  5. Waldow, Julia (2018-04-27). "What journalists got wrong about voters in the 2016 election". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2021-07-06.