Vasiliki Fouka
Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Bio
Vasiliki Fouka is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research interests include historical political economy, political behavior and cultural economics. She studies intergroup relations and the dynamics of identity change in a variety of temporal and geographic contexts.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Political Science
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Professional Education
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PhD, Pompeu Fabra University, Economics (2015)
2024-25 Courses
- Culture, Evolution, and Society
HUMBIO 2B (Aut) - Nationalism
GLOBAL 34N, POLISCI 34N (Win) - Political Culture
POLISCI 244U, POLISCI 344U (Aut) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Advanced Individual Study in Political Methodology
POLISCI 359 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 249 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 349 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in Political Methodology
POLISCI 259 (Spr) - Senior Thesis
INTNLREL 198 (Aut)
- Advanced Individual Study in Political Methodology
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Culture, Evolution, and Society
HUMBIO 2B (Aut) - Political Culture
POLISCI 244U, POLISCI 344U (Spr) - Research Design in Comparative Politics
POLISCI 440C (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Nationalism
GLOBAL 34Q, POLISCI 34Q (Win) - Political Culture
POLISCI 244U, POLISCI 344U (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Immigration and Multiculturalism
CSRE 141S, POLISCI 141A (Win) - Political Culture
POLISCI 244U, POLISCI 344U (Aut)
- Culture, Evolution, and Society
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Alvaro Calderon, Benjamin Tremblay-Auger, Natalia Vasilenok -
Doctoral (Program)
Justin-Casimir Braun, Paige Hill, Taiwo Mustafa
All Publications
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State Policy and Immigrant Integration
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2024; 27: 25-46
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051921-102651
View details for Web of Science ID 001280532600003
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Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German-Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2022
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055422001095
View details for Web of Science ID 000879977200001
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Hate crime towards minoritized groups increases as they increase in sized-based rank.
Nature human behaviour
2022
Abstract
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? Complementing accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the group reference dependence hypothesis: violence and negative attitudes towards each minoritized group will depend on the number and size of other minoritized groups in a community. Specifically, as groups increase or decrease in rank in terms of their size (for example, to the largest minority within a community), discriminatory behaviour and attitudes towards them should change accordingly. We test this hypothesis for hate crimes in US counties between 1990 and 2010 and attitudes in the United States and United Kingdom over the past two decades. Consistent with this prediction, we find that as Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian and Arab populations increase in rank relative to one another, they become more likely to be targeted with hate crimes and more negative attitudes. The rank effect holds above and beyond group size/proportion, growth rate and many other alternative explanations. This framework makes predictions about how demographic shifts may affect coalitional structures in the coming years and helps explain previous findings in the literature. Our results also indicate that attitudes and behaviours towards social categories are not intransigent or driven only by features associated with those groups, such as stereotypes.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-022-01416-5
View details for PubMedID 35941234
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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2022
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdac026
View details for Web of Science ID 000803743400001
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Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2021
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055421001350
View details for Web of Science ID 000729629300001
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From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2021
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdab038
View details for Web of Science ID 000759035500001
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RECOGNITION OF COLLECTIVE VICTIMHOOD AND OUTGROUP PREJUDICE
PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY
2021; 85 (2): 517-538
View details for DOI 10.1093/poq/nfab024
View details for Web of Science ID 000745958600002
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Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
2021
View details for DOI 10.1086/710016
View details for Web of Science ID 000637898100002
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Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2020; 114 (3): 707–23
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055420000106
View details for Web of Science ID 000553658900007
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AGRICULTURAL RETURNS TO LABOUR AND THE ORIGINS OF WORK ETHICS
ECONOMIC JOURNAL
2020; 130 (628): 1081–1113
View details for DOI 10.1093/ej/ueaa029
View details for Web of Science ID 000546136700010
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Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US Schools after World War I
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2020; 87 (1): 204–39
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdz024
View details for Web of Science ID 000507369500007
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How Do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US During World War I
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
2019; 113 (2): 405–22
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0003055419000017
View details for Web of Science ID 000466360200008