Tag: Robert Putnam
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Same Old: How the Right Harnesses White Fear (& Religious Fear) for Plutocratic Ends
David Campbell and Robert Putnam have an insightful editorial in today’s New York Times. In Crashing the Tea Party they summarize their study of national political attitudes (from interviews with a representative sample of 3,000 Americans) and shed some light onto unifying themes and motivations of members of the so-called Tea Party. Tea Partiers are…
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Bonding & Bridging | Populism & Hegemony pt.3
This is the third post in a series. Strong group identity is something of a double-edged sword for social justice movements. On the one hand—as discussed in part one of this series—it is absolutely essential. There can be no serious social movement—the kind that challenges the powerful and privileged—without a correspondingly serious group identity that…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 