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Promoting Elementary School-Age Children’s Understanding of Wealth, Poverty, and Civic Engagement

Promoting Elementary School-Age Children’s Understanding of Wealth, Poverty, and Civic Engagement by Rashmita S. Mistry, Lindsey Nenadal, Taylor Hazelbaker, Katherine M. Griffin of University of California, Los Angeles, and Elizabeth S. White of llinois State University The heightened and […]

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Tocqueville in Jacksonian Context: American Expansionism and Discourses of American Indian Nomadism in Democracy in America

Tocqueville in Jacksonian Context: American Expansionism and Discourses of American Indian Nomadism in Democracy in America by Alison McQueen, Stanford University and Burke A. Hendrix, University of Oregon Tocqueville’s discussion of American Indians in Democracy in America is often read […]

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Teaching About Economic Inequality in a Diverse Democracy: Politics, Ideology, and Difference

Teaching About Economic Inequality in a Diverse Democracy: Politics, Ideology, and Difference by John Rogers, University of California, Los Angeles and Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa New research published in PS: Political Science and Politics makes clear that a teachers’ […]

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Facing Facts in an Era of Political Polarization: Young People’s Learning and Knowledge about Economic Inequality

Facing Facts in an Era of Political Polarization: Young People’s Learning and Knowledge about Economic Inequality by Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahne, University of California, Riverside Just before the 2016 election, the Pew Research Center (2016) released a […]

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Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual

Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual by Alexander Cooley, Barnard College and J. C. Sharman, University of Cambridge We present a new, more transnational, networked perspective on corruption. It is premised on the importance of professional intermediaries who […]

American Political Science Review

Taking Religion Seriously? Habermas on Religious Translation and Cooperative Learning in Post-secular Society

Taking Religion Seriously? Habermas on Religious Translation and Cooperative Learning in Post-secular Society by Giorgi Areshidze, Claremont McKenna College This article evaluates Jürgen Habermas’s attempt to reopen political liberalism to religion. In trying to “take religion […]

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Public Sociology in the Age of Social Media

Reflection: Public Sociology in the Age of Social Media by Keiran Healy, Duke University I informally examine how the idea of public sociology has been affected by the rise of social media. New social media platforms […]

American Political Science Review

Reevaluating the Middle-Class Protest Paradigm: A Case-Control Study of Democratic Protest Coalitions in Russia

Reevaluating the Middle-Class Protest Paradigm: A Case-Control Study of Democratic Protest Coalitions in Russia by Bryn Rosenfeld, University of Southern California A large literature expects rising middle classes to promote democracy. However, few studies provide direct […]