Reading Tea Leaves: What 1,331 Protest Placards Tell Us About the Tea Party Movement

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy D. Mayer ◽  
Xiaomei Cai ◽  
Amit Patel ◽  
Rajendra Kulkarni ◽  
Virgil I. Stanford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Leaves ◽  
Tea Party Movement

Reading the Tea Leaves: Understanding Tea Party Caucus Membership in the US House of Representatives

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (02) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan T. Gervais ◽  
Irwin L. Morris
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Leaves ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
The Us

AbstractIn the summer of 2010, 52 Republican members of the US House of Representatives joined the newly formed Tea Party Caucus, bringing the first institutional voice to the Tea Party movement. To understand both thepolicyorientations of the organized Tea Party (in its caucus manifestation) and the institutional strength of the caucus's membership, we assess the extent to which caucus members are distinctive from their fellow Republicans in the US House of Representatives. Our results suggest that membership in the caucus is primarily driven by ideology and economics. Specifically, we find that Tea Party Caucus members are Republicans who are ideologically oriented toward limited government and lower taxes and who hail from particularly prosperous congressional districts. We find no evidence that Tea Party Caucus members serve safer districts or have greater seniority or institutional stature than their Republican colleagues who are not members of the caucus. These findings, we believe, speak not only to the nature and orientations of the Tea Party Caucus, but to the wider Tea Party movement itself.

Reading the Tea Leaves—the News about the News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadijah Costley White
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Tea Leaves ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Fox News ◽  
The Media

This chapter looks at how the media explained, critiqued, and reported on their own role in the branding and coverage of the Tea Party, and what that says about news media function and convergence in a headphone culture. Whether it was a “media war” on Fox News, a reporter’s rant at CNBC, or a defamatory online video triggering the dismissal of a high-ranking Obama appointee for “racism,” one thing was clear—at its core, Tea Party news narratives were also a story about modern journalism. This section of the book explains how members of the news media portrayed (implicitly and explicitly) their own roles, functions, and values as they advanced the Tea Party’s recognition, messaging, and growth through the logics, action, and discourse of branding.

scholarly journals Tea Leaves and Southern Politics: Explaining Tea Party Support in the Region*

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Hood ◽  
Quentin Kidd ◽  
Irwin L. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Leaves ◽  
Southern Politics ◽  
Party Support

The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics

Hard White ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Fording ◽  
Sanford F. Schram
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
White House ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Key Terms

This chapter frames the book’s analysis and provides an overview of the subsequent chapters. It explains how racism today is manifested most significantly in white “outgroup hostility” toward Latinos and Muslims as well as African Americans. It highlights the importance of race-baiting elites in exploiting a transformed media landscape to stoke white outgroup hostility and thereby mainstream racism in American politics today. The chapter introduces and defines a number of key terms, including “racialized political narratives” that operate to racialize selected groups of people to be constructed as threatening “outgroups” in opposition to whites as the “ingroup.” It emphasizes that the “political opportunity structure” for white racial extremists became more open, especially with the rise of the Tea Party movement, leading to their increased participation in conventional politics. The chapter argues that these factors had already converged prior to 2016 for Donald Trump to exploit in winning the presidency, thereby accelerating the mainstreaming of racism in American politics by putting it at the center of public policymaking in the White House.

Interaction Rituals and Religious Culture in the Tea Party

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Stacy M. K. George
Keyword(s):  
Political Influence ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Conservative Christianity ◽  
Interaction Rituals ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Religious Perspectives

Scholars have noted the variety of ideological and religious perspectives present in the Tea Party movement. This study addresses why both religious and nonreligious individuals may be involved in the Tea Party despite its cultural connection to ‘traditional’ conservative Christianity. The article explores Tea Party participation and commitment, arguing that group membership is sustained by the party’s ability to create interaction rituals reflective of Christian culture as an acknowledgement of American Christian values. The Tea Party frames its ideology as sacred, thereby establishing group commitment and cohesion. As a result, it is capable of attracting constituents from inside and outside of the Religious Right. By validating the experiences of others and creating a system of interdependency, the Tea Party has the potential to create group solidarity leading to collective action and exceptional political influence.

Should Catholics Drink the Tea?: Reflections on the Tea Party Movement in Light of Gaudium et Spes

Horizons ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-340
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Dileo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Fiscal Responsibility ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Gaudium Et Spes ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
Laissez Faire

This article seeks to fill a gap in Catholic literature by reflecting on the extent to which the Tea Party movement can be understood as consistent with Gaudium et Spes (GS). First, the article provides an overview of the Tea Party movement and its core ideological principles: intense individualism, emphasis on negative human rights, limited government, fiscal responsibility, low taxes, and laissez-faire capitalism. Next, the article offers a brief description of the contextual and ecclesial background of GS and reviews its key themes. The article then assesses the extent to which the ideological principles of the Tea Party movement are supported by GS, concluding that although there are points of partial resonance between the ideology of the Tea Party and GS, the former is largely inconsistent with the vision outlined and articulated by the latter.

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