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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
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This article is published in Journal of Communication.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 309 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resentment & Consciousness.read more
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Essays on political participation and the quality of democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of registration requirements for first-time voters on voter turnout in U.S. states has been investigated using a regression discontinuity design with official state voter records and leveraging a discontinuity in voter turnout around the registration deadline.
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Farmwomen in the academy: rurality and leadership in higher education
TL;DR: Using collective biography, this paper examined the ways that rural identity mediates the leadership of two women working as administrators in higher education in the United States, and found that "we, the...
“I’m Not Sure What to Believe”: Media Distrust and Opinion Formation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
TL;DR: This article found that those with universal distrust in all media struggled to adjudicate between conflicting interpretations of reality, particularly if they also had low political knowledge, and they felt little confidence in any opinions they formed.
Examining the Political Motivations of Christian Women Following the 2016 Presidential Election
TL;DR: Grace et al. as discussed by the authors examined the political motivations of a specific group of voters in two Wisconsin counties that flipped from voting for a Democrat in 2012 to a Republican in 2016 and found that the role of churches in influencing political attitudes and voting decisions, the participants general views on current politics, and their thoughts on Trump's election and his first year in office.
The Presidential Election in Illinois: 2016 Compared to 2012 and 2008.
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the 2016 general election results in Illinois and compared those results to the 2012 and 2008 presidential elections and found that the discrepancy between the two outcomes was the largest in American history.
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The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)
TL;DR: The authors argue that the populist wave is challenging the sources of existing well-being in both the less-dynamic and the more prosperous areas and that better, rather than more, place-sensitive territorial development policies are needed in order to find a solution to the problem.
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Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy: Common Patterns, Dynamics, and Pernicious Consequences for Democratic Polities:
TL;DR: In this article, a common pattern and set of dynamics characterizes severe political and societal polarization in different contexts around the world, with pernicious consequences for democ..., and
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The geography of EU discontent
TL;DR: Support for parties opposed to European Union (EU) integration has risen rapidly, and a wave of discontent has taken over the EU as discussed by the authors. This discontent is purportedly driven by the very factors behind th...
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Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality:
TL;DR: This paper proposed a research agenda for the sociology of recognition and destigmatization, and sketched how social scientists, policymakers, organizations, and citizens can contribute to this research agenda, including institutions, cultural repertoires, knowledge workers, and social movement activists.
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How Trump Drove Coverage to the Nomination: Hybrid Media Campaigning
Chris Wells,Dhavan V. Shah,Jon C. Pevehouse,JungHwan Yang,Ayellet Pelled,Frederick J. Boehm,Josephine Lukito,Shreenita Ghosh,Jessica L. Schmidt +8 more
TL;DR: This article wrote in summer 2016 about Donald Trump and political communication is a fraught task: one is tempted to proclaim something dramatic: the end of an era, the beginning of one, or some kind of apot...