Sociological theory and historical precedent suggest that pandemics engender
scapegoating of outgroups, but fail to specify how the ethnoracial boundaries defining …

During his campaign and subsequent presidency, Donald Trump staked out and
implemented an isolationist foreign policy agenda that sought to put “America First” and …

Recent acts of racial violence, the growing visibility of nationalized white power movements,
and a drift toward a number of more restrictive laws and Supreme Court rulings have raised …

How do survey respondents arrive at answers to survey questions? How do they fit different
kinds of subtle or even contradictory ideas into “moderate” or “don't know” answers? Public …

How COVID‐19 economic aid should be distributed continues to be an important societal
question, with relevance to current and future public health policy. We argue that religious …

We use self‐determination (SDT) and worldview defence theories (WDT) to explicate the
psychological roots of identitarian voting in recent US, UK and EU elections. We test our …

The bulk of prior research focuses on economic hard times as a source of material insecurity
and relative deprivation in fueling negative attitudes toward immigrants and immigration …

This essay underscores the importance of public sociology and the critical and policy
outcomes it encourages. The work also notes the importance of translating sophisticated …

In this chapter, we focus on candidate and campaign strategic attempts at “identity
ownership”(Kreiss, Lawrence, and McGregor 2020) during primary election campaigns …

Immigration control has emerged as a fiery partisan issue in American politics as evidenced
by the controversies over policies of the Trump administration over the last four years. While …