Andrew R. Flores, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Government at American University

PRRI Affiliated Scholar Dr. Andrew R. Flores (he/him) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University and an Affiliated Scholar at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

Flores’ research centers on attitude formation and attitude change about LGBTQ+ people and LGBTQ+ rights, and he studies how politics affect the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people. Dr. Flores is an Associate Editor of Political Research Quarterly, among the leading generalist journals of political science. His peer-reviewed research has appeared in Science Advances, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of Americathe  American Journal of Public Health, Policy Studies Journal, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Psychology. 


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Works By Andrew R. Flores, Ph.D.

Drs. Kelsy Burke, Andrew R. Flores, Suzanna Krivulskaya, and Joanna Wuest are 2023-2024 PRRI Public Fellows studying the intersection of politics, religion, and LGBTQ rights. This Spotlight Analysis details the findings of their original, collaborative

Beginning in 2022, PRRI’s American Values Survey noted an increase in public support for policies requiring transgender people to use bathrooms based on their birth sex. It was the only issue that bucked the trend

Concerning Gender, Sexuality, and Politics PRRI’s 2023 Gender and Politics Survey provides an important update on the current state of the opinions of American adults on pressing questions about gender and sexuality. While there were

The 2023 legislative cycle has already seen a massive increase in the number of anti-LGBTQ bills proposed in state legislatures, with a total of 378 pieces of legislation filed as of the end of February.

Younger voters, particularly younger women voters, overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, with some analyses suggesting that their votes effectively canceled out those cast by the more Republican-leaning Boomer and Silent generations.

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