Vasiliki Fouka

Vasiliki Fouka

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Stanford University
Department of Political Science
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Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences
May 2025 - Working Paper33786
Author(s) - Vasiliki Fouka & Marco Tabellini
This chapter reviews the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences. We distinguish conceptually between the direct cultural transmission of political ideology and the transmission of more primitive preferences and beliefs that influence preferences over policies,...
Nation Building and AI
February 24, 2025 - Chapter
Author(s) - Vasiliki Fouka & Bryony Reich
Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain
November 2024 - Working Paper33114
Author(s) - Vasiliki Fouka & Theo Serlin
How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial...
Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement
September 2023 - Working Paper31708
Author(s) - Valentín Figueroa & Vasiliki Fouka
What drives change in a societys values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a societys dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement...
Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict
October 2022 - Working Paper30517
Author(s) - Vasiliki Fouka & Alain Schläpfer
Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one-time interactions within a group, but the informational content of...
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
June 2021 - Working Paper28965
Author(s) - Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka & Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This...
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