Amanda Lea Robinson

Amanda Lea Robinson studies ethnicity, identity, and political behavior, with a strong focus on Malawi, including how ethnic groups revive cultural traditions and how this affects political influence and voting. Her recent work also examines gender representation in local governance and environmental decision-making, as well as experiments aimed at reducing partisan polarization in the United States. Overall, her research combines qualitative case studies with quantitative and experimental methods to understand group identity, representation, and political power.

Publication output has been uneven over the past decade, with a large spike in 2019 (many book chapters) and again in 2024 (coinciding with a book's publication), interspersed with lower-output years, averaging about five publications per year over the last five years.

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