scholarly journals It’s Tea Time but What Flavor? Regional Variation in Sources of Support for the Tea Party Movement

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 95-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy G. Ulbig ◽  
Sarah Macha
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The U.S

While the Tea Party movement has gained much support and media attention over the past several years, the debate remains about the sources of support for the movement. Some argue that supporters are drawn to the movement by concerns about the state of the U.S. economy. Others believe the movement attracts those who are most disgruntled with the size and direction of the national government. Further, charges of racism and anti-immigrant attitudes among movement supporters continue to arise. Finally, some wonder what role moral issues play in this movement, if any. We believe that much of this debate results from the varied attraction of the Tea Party movement across the nation. Using data from a June 2010 nationwide USA Today/Gallup Poll, investigate the sources of movement support, finding that the basis of support varies by geographic region. We find that traditional, moral values, and counter to much popular sentiment, racism play no role in movement support in any region of the nation. Instead, concerns about illegal immigration, the economy, and the size of federal government predict movement support, but vary by region.

scholarly journals Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Malcom ◽  
Ya-Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Recovery Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
The U.S

Recovery planning is an essential part of implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but conservationists and government agencies recognize challenges with the current planning process. Using data from all U.S. domestic and transboundary ESA-listed species, we quantify the completeness, timeliness, age, and other variation among ESA recovery plans over the past 40 years. We show that nearly 1/4 of eligible listed taxa (n = 1,548) lack final recovery plans; half of plans have taken >5 years to finalize after listing; half of recovery plans are more than 20 years old; and there is significant variation between agencies and among regions and taxonomic groups in planning. These results are not unexpected given dwindling budgets and an increasing number of species requiring protection, but underscore the need for systematic improvements to recovery planning. We discuss solutions—some already underway—that may address some of the shortcomings and help improve recovery action implementation for threatened and endangered species.

Drinking the Tea: The Tea Party Movement and Legislative Agendas in the U.S. Senate

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-88
Author(s):  
Carly Schmitt ◽  
Chera LaForge ◽  
Hanna K. Brant
Keyword(s):  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Legislative Agendas ◽  
The U.S

DENIAL, DEFLECTION, AND DISTRACTION: NEUTRALIZING CHARGES OF RACISM BY THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Malaena J. Taylor ◽  
Mary Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Racist Ideology ◽  
The U.S

This article integrates theory on contentious movements and racism to develop what we call the “stigma neutralization model,” which explains how activists challenge stigmatizing identities in order to build a positive collective identity. Using original ethnographic research, we examine the response of a local Tea Party group to charges of racism. If a social movement is seen as racist, their political efficacy may be damaged. By analyzing backstage identity work, we illustrate that the strategies involved in distancing both activists and the movement from charges of racism reflect broader cultural understandings of the U.S. as being a post-racial or “colorblind” society. Our stigma neutralization model illustrates how activists deny, deflect, and distract from charges that activists are racist, thus maintaining and reproducing racist ideology, while reconstituting both individual and movement identities as unspoiled and racially tolerant. We discuss the implications of our findings for antiminority majority social movements more generally.

scholarly journals Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Malcom ◽  
Ya-Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Recovery Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
The U.S

Recovery planning is an essential part of implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but conservationists and government agencies recognize challenges with the current planning process. Using data from all U.S. domestic and transboundary ESA-listed species, we quantify the completeness, timeliness, age, and other variation among ESA recovery plans over the past 40 years. Among eligible listed taxa (n = 1,548), nearly 1/4 lack final recovery plans; half of plans have taken >5 years to finalize after listing; half of recovery plans are more than 20 years old; and there is significant variation in planning between agencies, and among regions and taxonomic groups. These results are not unexpected given dwindling budgets and an increasing number of species requiring protection, but underscore the need for systematic improvements to recovery planning. We discuss solutions—some already underway—that may address some of the shortcomings and help improve recovery action implementation for threatened and endangered species.

Who Bought All the Toilet Paper? Conspiracy Theorists Are More Likely to Stockpile During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Bai
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Toilet Paper ◽  
The Future ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Buying Behaviors ◽  
The U.S

The current COVID-19 pandemic has changed many people’s lives. Some people have responded to the rising of the pandemic by engaging in panic buying behaviors, a phenomenon that has not been well-understood in the past. People who believe in these conspiracies may experience a heightened sense of powerlessness and vulnerability. As a result, they may be particularly susceptible to palliatively and compensatorily engage in the panic buying behaviors (i.e., stockpiling). Supporting this idea, two studies using data from the U.K. (cross-sectional) and the U.S. (longitudinal) show that people who endorse COVID-19 conspiracy theories are more likely to engage in stockpiling behaviors in the past as well as in the future.

scholarly journals Are Self-Participation Rates Predictive of Accuracy in the U.S. Census?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
William P. O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Census Bureau ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

Metrics related to the U.S. Census have been widely available for several decades but there has been a dearth of studies examining the relationship among key metrics in the Census. This paper provides empirical evidence about the link between self-participation rates and census accuracy using data from the 1990, 2000, and 2010 U.S Censuses. The preponderance of the evidence shows lower self-participation rates are highly correlated with higher net undercounts and omissions rates for key socio-demographic groups and states. Nine out of 11 correlations examined in this paper are statistically significant and in the predicted direction. One key reason self-participation rates are associated with census accuracy is the fact that the population not captured in the self-participation operation goes into the households for the Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation. Census Bureau data show data collected in NRFU is not as accurate as that collected in self-response. The larger the share of data collected for a population that is collected in NFRU, the lower the quality of data for that group. The connection between self-participation rates and census accuracy mean the differential self-participation rates seen in the 2020 Census suggest patterns of net Census undercounts seen in the past are likely to be seen in the 2020 Census.

scholarly journals Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Malcom ◽  
Ya-Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Recovery Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
The U.S

Recovery planning is an essential part of implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but conservationists and government agencies recognize challenges with the current planning process. Using data from all U.S. domestic and transboundary ESA-listed species, we quantify the completeness, timeliness, age, and other variation among ESA recovery plans over the past 40 years. Among eligible listed taxa (n = 1,548), nearly 1/4 lack final recovery plans; half of plans have taken >5 years to finalize after listing; half of recovery plans are more than 20 years old; and there is significant variation in planning between agencies, and among regions and taxonomic groups. These results are not unexpected given dwindling budgets and an increasing number of species requiring protection, but underscore the need for systematic improvements to recovery planning. We discuss solutions—some already underway—that may address some of the shortcomings and help improve recovery action implementation for threatened and endangered species.

scholarly journals Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Malcom ◽  
Ya-Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Recovery Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
The U.S

Recovery planning is an essential part of implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but conservationists and government agencies recognize challenges with the current planning process. Using data from all U.S. domestic and transboundary ESA-listed species, we quantify the completeness, timeliness, age, and other variation among ESA recovery plans over the past 40 years. Among eligible listed taxa (n = 1,548), nearly 1/4 lack final recovery plans; half of plans have taken >5 years to finalize after listing; half of recovery plans are more than 20 years old; and there is significant variation in planning between agencies, and among regions and taxonomic groups. These results are not unexpected given dwindling budgets and an increasing number of species requiring protection, but underscore the need for systematic improvements to recovery planning. We discuss solutions—some already underway—that may address some of the shortcomings and help improve recovery action implementation for threatened and endangered species.

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