Margit Tavits receives Robert E. Lane Award for Voicing Politics

Margit Tavits and Efrén Pérez have been selected as the winners of the Robert E. Lane Award for their book Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. This award is given by the APSA Political Psychology Section for the best book in political psychology published in the last year. Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion can be purchased from Princeton University Press here

Margit Tavits is the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Science and the Chair of the Political Science department at WashU. Efrén Pérez (Ph.D., Duke University) is Full Professor of Political Science and Psychology at UCLA, where he directs its Race, Ethnicity, Politics, and Society (REPS) Lab and co-directs its Intergroup Relations (IRL) Lab.