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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
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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...
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The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth about Political Illegitimacy:
TL;DR: This paper developed and tested a theory to address a puzzling pattern that has been discussed widely since the 2016 U.S. presidential election and reproduced here in a post-election survey: how can a constitu...
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Ideological Heterogeneity and the Rise of Donald Trump
TL;DR: This paper showed that while American political elites compete across a single dimension of conflict, the American people organize their attitudes around two distinct dimensions, one economic and one social, to understand how Donald Trump captured the Republican nomination and the White House.
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Populist anger, Donald Trump, and the 2016 election
TL;DR: The election of Donald Trump as US president in 2016 arguably represents the most unanticipated election outcome in contemporary American politics as mentioned in this paper, using three nationally representative surveys of the US population, and
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Engendering Empathy, Begetting Backlash: American Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees
TL;DR: This paper conducted a nationally representative survey of American citizens in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election and experimentally test two mechanisms hypothesized to promote inclusion: information and empathy, and found that the empathy treatment engendered inclusionary attitudes among Independents and the increase in letter writing was driven primarily by Democrats, whose underlying attitudes did not change, but also by Republicans.
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After the Flood: The Politics of Reconstruction in Post-3.11 Tōhoku
TL;DR: In this paper, the confluence of knowledge, power and the production of resilient space through a case study of how the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture is being rebuilt after the tsunami of March 11, 2011 (known in Japan as 3.11).
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Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that revealing the "submerged state" through operational transparency impacts citizens' attitudes and behavior, and showed that people's perceptions of government and their levels of engagement with it can be reshaped and enhanced by increasing government's operational transparency by designing service interactions so that citizens can see the often hidden work that government performs.