Job Market Paper

1. State vs. Faith: State-led Secularization, Political Backlash and Political Islamism among Muslims

   Working Paper

   Wali Reheman

   2024

   Presented at MPSA 2024 and 2025 Annual Conferences, WPSA 2024 Annual Conference, APSA 2025 Annual Conference

Work in Progress

2025

1. Muslims in Europe

   Working Paper

   Sharan Grewal, and Wali Reheman

   2025
2. Exploring Institutional Explanations for Ingroup Support for Ethnic Parties

   Working Paper

   David Lublin, and Wali Reheman

   2025

   Presented at APSA 2026 Annual Conference

   Abs

   Though political scientists have long explored differing factors that lead to ethnic party success, less focus has been given to explaining variations in levels of support from the target ethnic group. We have developed a new dataset that estimates support among approximately 25 different ethnic groups over the past several decades for corresponding ethnic parties using ecological inference and polls. Through exploration of the impact of electoral systems and other institutions on ingroup support for ethnic parties, we will shed light on the effectiveness of institutions in shaping ethnic party support. In particular, do electoral institutions designed to promote coalition building successfully undermine efforts by ethnic parties to solidify an ethnic base?

2023

1. Seeking the American Dream: Immigrants’ Belief in Meritocracy across Generations

   Working Paper

   Elizabeth Suhay, Wali Reheman, and Mark Tenenbaum

   2023

   Presented at APSA 2023 Annual Conference

   Abs

   Are new immigrants especially likely to have faith in the American Dream—the idea that hard work leads to success? What buoys or erodes this faith across immigrant generations? No prior published research has sought to answer these questions with U.S. representative survey data of immigrant Americans. Drawing on two such surveys, we investigate immigrants’ beliefs regarding economic opportunity and how these beliefs differ within and across immigrant generations. We find that first-generation immigrants are unusual in their commitment to the image of the U.S. as the land of opportunity. In generations that follow, views become more pessimistic. Contrary to conventional wisdom, perspectives on the American Dream in the second generation and thereafter are not correlated with economic success. Rather, younger immigrant generations’ perceptions of economic opportunity are linked to partisanship and, among Black Americans only, racial identity.