The Political Integration of Foreign-Born Citizens

This grant is funded in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Naturalized citizens make up about 10-percent of eligible voters, however, they vote at a much lower rate than their U.S.-born counterparts. Why are some naturalized citizens more politically incorporated into American society than others? Political scientists Mashail Malik and William Marble will examine the political incorporation of naturalized citizens. They will develop a psychological ownership scale to examine the relationship between a sense of psychological ownership and political engagement and conduct surveys for their study.