The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

Williamson, Vanessa; Skocpol, Theda; Coggin, John

doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199832637.001.0001

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“…The self-employed are also prominent in more recent studies on anti-statist movements, such as the Tea Party in the United States. Skocpol and Williamson (2012) argue that among Tea Partiers, business is often idealized and that many Tea Party members are small business people.…”

Section: Petty Bourgeois Conservatismmentioning

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Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

Jansen

2016

Acta Polit

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This study aims to provide theoretical and empirical clarity on whether people in ''new'' and precarious self-employment support the same political parties as those in traditional forms. Theoretical clarity is needed as the voting literature predominantly perceives self-employment in terms of class-based theories or insider/outsider theories, i.e., as a privileged grouping with shared interests as (potential) employers. Alternative perspectives, looking into the heterogeneity and precarization of self-employment have received less attention. Empirically, quantitative data are needed: Previous voting studies have not been able to differentiate the self-employed, either due to the lack of relevant indicators or because of low-N problems. Focusing on the Netherlands, this study addresses these shortcomings by analyzing data among over 800 self-employed without employees, using the Solo Self-Employment Panel. This study finds that the simple association between self-employment and rightist orientations is largely an oversimplification, and for growing segments of self-employment even a misrepresentation.

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Section: Petty Bourgeois Conservatismmentioning

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Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

Jansen

2016

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“…This can manifest itself in populist anger toward wealthy individuals and big business interests who enrich themselves on the hard work of others by controlling and manipulating finance and markets, as it did with the Populist movement (Hofstadter 1955;McMath 1992;Kazin 1995) and the followers of Father Coughlin and Huey Long in the 1930s (Brinkley 1982;Kazin 1995). It can also present as populist resentment toward groups in society seen as receiving social welfare benefits of which they are not deserving (Gilens 1999), as it did with the populist supporters of George Wallace in the 1960s (Carter 1995;Kazin 1995) and in the current Tea Party movement (Skocpol and Williamson 2013). But either way, American populism holds that unfair economic arrangements are resulting in those who work hard suffering while those who do not grow fat off of the efforts of others.…”

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“…It is not a stretch to claim that the perception of conflict between the people and the elites is the one element common to all American populist movements. One can easily discern this element in the most radical Anti-Federalist opposition to the ratification of the Constitution (Cornell 1999;Siemers 2003;Formisano 2008;Faber 2014), in the push to elect Andrew Jackson president in 1828 (Hofstadter 1962;Berlet and Lyons 2000;Harris 2010), in the agrarian Populist revolt of the late 19th century (Hofstadter 1955;McMath 1992;Kazin 1995), in the rise of Father Coughlin and Huey Long in the 1930s (Brinkley 1982;Kazin 1995) and George Wallace in the 1960s (Carter 1995;Kazin 1995), and in the Tea Party movement of today (Skocpol and Williamson 2013).…”

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Populism in American Politics

Brewer

2016

The Forum

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Populism undoubtedly has a long history in the politics of the US, and there is no doubt that populism has significantly affected American politics in a variety of ways. However, what exactly is meant by "populism" is frequently ambiguous and ill-defined. Political commentators routinely label individuals or ideas as populist, without even attempting to explain how and why the person or idea in question relates to populism. Scholars are not immune to acting in a similar fashion. Populism's presence is more often asserted than demonstrated in any convincing way. Here I engage in a thorough examination of the substance of populism in American politics. All elements of American populism -its championing of the common people, it rural roots, its anti-elitism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-government views, and its religious and cultural dimensions -will be explored. The paper closes with an attempt to suss out the place of populism in contemporary American politics.

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“…In the UK and Poland, GDP grew at 2.6 and 3.4%, respectively, whereas in Italy the economy shrunk by 0.4% in 2014. Previous research has shown that the economic downturn affected citizens' support for government intervention (Malhotra and Margalit 2010;Margalit 2013;Popp and Rudolph 2011) and fuelled political protests and a variety of social movements (Bennett 2012;Skocpol and Williamson 2013). Particularly in those countries worst hit, large protests took place as European governments were blamed for the negative economic context Grasso 2015a, 2017a).…”

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Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action

Giugni

Grasso

2017

Acta Polit

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In this paper we analyse the extent to which perceptions of the government's role in the economic crisis impacted on the political behaviour of European citizens. This includes contentious political activities such as attending public meetings, participating in demonstrations, and joining strikes, but also electoral behaviour in the form of voting against the incumbent. We examine data from 2015 since it allows us to examine European nations experiencing different economic conditions as a result of the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent period of recession. We find that individuals who blamed the national government for the economic crisis and who were more unsatisfied with the government's handling of unemployment were more likely to participate. However, the effect of these variables varied across different forms of political behaviour. Moreover, the study provides evidence that the effect of the perceptions of one's own economic situation on political behaviour is conditional upon the perceptions people have of the way in which the government is dealing with the situation, and specifically with unemployment, a key marker of the extent of the negative effects of the economic crisis across European nations.

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The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

Cited by 656 publications

References 19 publications

Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

Populism in American Politics

Blame and contention: how perceptions of the government’s role in the economic crisis shape patterns of political action

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