This article focuses on three mechanisms to explain the rise of populist movements across Europe. They are politicization of resentment, exploitation of social cleavages, and polarization of resentment and feelings of non-representation. We conceptualize populism as a strategic power game aiming to transform potential majorities into real ones by creating or reframing social cleavages. Our theo...

Many observers have found the public reception to GM crops to be difficult to fathom because it departs substantially from our experiences in technological innovation in American agriculture. While there have been conflicts over new technology in agriculture in American history—for example, over cotton mechanization in the South during the 1930s and 1940s which led to the massive migration of e...

Objective. The etiology of active parenting remains almost entirely unexplored in political socialization. Applying ecological and dialectic perspectives, we propose a model of developmental provocation to capture contributions of youth to a politicization of parenting during campaigns. Methods. Parent-youth dyads in Arizona, Colorado, and Florida were interviewed across two election cycles. Ad...

Debates over foreign aid effectiveness have neglected the views of recipients, especially as they compare aid to domestic government programs. We argue that citizens may see foreign aid as an escape from clientelism because aid is less politicized than government programs and citizens trust donors more. They may also favor multilateral over bilateral aid for similar reasons. We test the argumen...

This study examined the correlates of midlife political participation among 64 Black and 107 White women of the college classes of 1967-1973. Compared with White women, Black women scored higher on political participation, generativity, power discontent, and politicization. Factor analysis of personality and political attitude variables yielded three factors labeled Political Identity, Power Di...

Co-production between public administrators and citizens has attracted renewed interest in recent years. is predominantly perceived as something desirable claimed to improve service efficiency outcome user satisfaction, at the same time addressing democratic ideals. Drawing from interviews with patients a Swedish healthcare context, this paper seeks nuance often overly positive notion of co-pro...