Stella Rouse
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Phone: 480-965-3969
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Fax: 480-965-0315
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1100 S. Cady Mall Interdisciplinary Building A Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 5303Campus: Tempe
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Stella Rouse is the director of the Hispanic Research Center and professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her research examines how identities inform representation, political behavior and participation, focusing primarily on Latino and youth politics. She is the author or coauthor of three books: Latinos in the Legislative Process: Interests and Influence, The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and Policy Preferences of America’s Most Diverse Generation, and Citizens of the World: Political Engagement and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe. She has published articles on Latino representation on congressional committees, the mobilizing effect of female candidates in midterm elections, how generational and/or ethnic identities influence attitudes about immigration, climate change and COVID-19, and the role of religion on the political attitudes of Latinos, African Americans, and whites. Prior to joining ASU in 2023, Rouse spent 15 years at the University of Maryland, including three years as director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement (2019-2022). A native of Colombia, she moved to Florida at age 2 and is a fluent Spanish speaker and writer.
Rouse's work is situated within the field of American politics with a concentration on minority/identity politics and state politics, and a specialization in Latino and generational politics. Broadly defined, I examine how varying identities influence the behavior of those within political institutions and among the mass public.
Books:
Rouse, Stella M., Jared McDonald, Richard N. Engstrom, Michael J. Hanmer, Roberto
Gonzàlez, Siugmin Lay, and Daniel Miranda. 2022. Citizens of the World: Political Engagement
and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN:
978-0197599389.
Rouse, Stella M. and Ashley D. Ross. 2018. The Politics of Millennials: Political Beliefs and
Policy Preferences of America’s Most Diverse Generation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press. ISBN: 978-0472131075; DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9526877.
Rouse, Stella M. 2013. Latinos in the Legislative Process: Interests and Influence. New York:
Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1107032705; DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139507066.
Articles:
Hunt, Charles and Stella M. Rouse. Forthcoming. "Polarization and Place-Based
Representation in U.S. State Legislatures." Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Rouse, Stella M. 2023. "Opportunities for Legislative Influence? Latinos and Committee
Participation in the U.S. Congress."Congress & the Presidency, 50 (2): 164-189. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1080/07343469.2022.2142323.
Hunt, Charles and Stella M. Rouse. 2023. "Local Candidate Roots and Electoral
Advantages in U.S. State Legislatures." State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 23 (2): 233-43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2023.5
Fisher, Dana R. and Stella M. Rouse. 2022. "Intersectionality within the Racial Justice
Movement in the Summer of 2020." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119
(30). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118525119.
Safarpour, Alauna C., SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, Stella M. Rouse, and Michele L. Swers.
2022. "When Women Run, Voters Will Follow (Sometimes): Examining the Mobilizing
Effect of Female Candidates in the 2014 and 2018 Midterm Elections." Political Behavior
44, 365-388. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09767-x.
Rouse, Stella M., Charles Hunt, and Kristen Essel. 2021. "Growing Tea with Subnational
Roots: Tea Party Affiliation, Factionalism, and GOP Politics in State
Legislatures."American Politics Research, 50 (2): 242-254. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X211041150.
Miras, Nicholas S. and Stella M. Rouse. 2021. "Partisan Misalignment and the
Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policymaking
in the American States." British Journal of Political Science, 52 (2): 573-592. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123420000745.
Ross, Ashley D. and Stella M. Rouse. 2020. "(Young) Generations as Social Identities:
The Role of Latino*Millennial/Generation Z in Shaping Attitudes about Climate Change."
Political Behavior 44, 1105-1124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09649-8.
Deckman, Melissa, Jared McDonald, Stella M. Rouse, and Mileah Kromer. 2020. "Gen Z,
Gender and Covid-19." Politics & Gender, 16 (4): 1019-1027. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000434.
Herrnson, Paul S., Stella M. Rouse, and Jeffrey A. Taylor. 2020. "The Impact of Electoral
Arrangements on Minority Representation: District Magnitude and the Election of African
American State Legislators." Election Law Journal, 19 (1): 64-78. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2019.0581.
Ross, Ashley D., Stella M. Rouse, and William Mobley. 2019. "Polarization of Climate
Change Beliefs: The Role of the Millennial Generation Identity." Social Science Quarterly.
100 (7): 2625-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12640.
Ross, Ashley D. and Stella M. Rouse. 2015. "Economic Uncertainty, Job Threat, and the
Resiliency of the Millennial Generation’s Attitudes toward Immigration." Social Science
Quarterly, 96 (5): 1363-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12168.
McKenzie, Brian and Stella M. Rouse. 2013. "Shades of Faith: Religious Foundations of
Political Attitudes among African Americans, Latinos and Whites." American Journal of
Political Science, 57 (1): 218-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00611.x.
Sill, Kaitlyn, Emily Metzgar, and Stella M. Rouse. 2013. "Media Coverage of the U.S.
Supreme Court: How Do Journalists Assess the Importance of Court Decisions?" Political
Communication, 30 (1): 58-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2012.737414.
Bratton, Kathleen and Stella M. Rouse. 2011. "Networks in the Legislative Arena: How
Group Dynamics Affect Cosponorship." Legislative Studies Quarterly, 36 (3): 423-60. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-9162.2011.00021.x.
Rouse, Stella M., Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, and James C. Garand. 2010. "Divided
Loyalties? Understanding Variation in Latinos’ Attitudes Toward Immigration." Social
Science Quarterly, 91 (3): 856-82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00723.x.
Ross, Ashley D., Stella M. Rouse, and Kathleen Bratton. 2010. "Latino Representation
and Education: Pathways to Latino Student Performance." State Politics and Policy
Quarterly, 10 (1): 69-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/153244001001000104.
Rouse, Stella M. and Moises Arce. 2006. "The Drug-Laden Balloon: U.S. Military
Assistance and Coca Production in the Central Andes." Social Science Quarterly, 87 (3):
540-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2006.00395.x.
Book Chapters:
Ross, Ashley D. and Stella M. Rouse. Forthcoming. "Millennial Generation Political
Engagement: Democratically Motivated or Disenchanted?" in Generations in American Politics,
eds. David Schultz and Sally Friedman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Deckman, Melissa and Stella M. Rouse. 2022."In God ’Z’ Trusts? Generation Z’s Attitudes
about Religion and COVID-19," in An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and
COVID-19 in the United States, eds. Paul A Djupe and Amanda Friesen. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
Swers, Michele L. and Stella M. Rouse. 2011."Descriptive Representation: Understanding the
Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests," in The Oxford Handbook
of the American Congress, eds. Eric Schickler and Frances E. Lee. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
POS 216 | State and Local Government |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 216 | State and Local Government |
2024 Spring
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POS 216 | State and Local Government |