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Applying Norton's challenge to the study of political behaviour: focus on process, the particular, and the ordinary / Walsh, Katherine Cramer

Walsh, Katherine Cramer	Journal Article
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Publication	2006.
Summary/Abstract	In 95 Theses Anne Norton picks a fight with conventional political science. She asks conventional political science to use different measures (indeed, conceptualize what we do as something other than "measuring"), use different methods, and ask different questions. Some may read this as a threat to an entire way of life. I read it as an intriguing and exciting challenge. a

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Political behaviour ; Study

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Putting inequality in its place: rural consciousness and the power of perspective / Walsh, Katherine Cramer

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2012.

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Why do people vote against their interests? Previous explanations miss something fundamental because they do not consider the work of group consciousness. Based on participant observation of conversations from May 2007 to May 2011 among 37 regularly occurring groups in 27 communities sampled across Wisconsin, this study shows that in some places, people have a class- and place-based identity that is intertwined with a perception of deprivation. The rural consciousness revealed here shows people attributing rural deprivation to the decision making of (urban) political elites, who disregard and disrespect rural residents and rural lifestyles. Thus these rural residents favor limited government, even though such a stance might seem contradictory to their economic self-interests. The results encourage us to consider the role of group consciousness-based perspectives rather than pitting interests against values as explanations for preferences. Also, the study suggests that public opinion research more seriously include listening to the public.

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Inequality ; Identity ; Political Elites ; Rural Consciousness

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