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Twilight Of The Idols and The Anti-Christ Open
Twilight of the Idols, an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for The Anti-Christ, a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsch…
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Cross-Cultural Polarity and Emotion Detection Using Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning on COVID-19 Related Tweets Open
How different cultures react and respond given a crisis is predominant in a society's norms and political will to combat the situation. Often, the decisions made are necessitated by events, social pressure, or the need of the hour, which m…
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Explaining the Trump Vote: The Effect of Racist Resentment and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Open
The campaign leading to the 2016 US presidential election included a number of unconventional forms of campaign rhetoric. In earlier analyses, it was claimed that the Trump victory could be seen as a form of protest voting. This article an…
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Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts Open
The number of predictive technologies used in the U.S. criminal justice system is on the rise. Yet there is little research to date on the reception of algorithms in criminal justice institutions. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducte…
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Hotspot crowding and over-tourism: Antecedents of destination attractiveness Open
This study develops a unique model capturing antecedents of place attractiveness in tourism hotspot crowding contexts. A structural equation model reveals three density dimensions: one destination image variable and two avoidance versus ap…
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Farmers’ upheaval, climate crisis and populism Open
This article aims to unravel underlying reasons for the enigmatic outburst of farmers’ fury that swept large parts of Europe in the autumn of 2019. It does so by focussing on the Netherlands where the upheaval was particularly striking. Fa…
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Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe Open
The decline of the quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was facilitated by intellectual, ideological, and organizational innovations of a new authoritarian elite. I this article I discuss five such innovations: a particular c…
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Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice Open
I. Introduction: Furies into Eumenides II. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-ranking III. Forgiveness: A Genealogy Appendix: Dies Irae IV. Intimate Relationships: The Trap of Anger V. The Middle Realm: Stoicism Qualified VI. The Political Rea…
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Emotional Dynamics of Right- and Left-wing Political Populism Open
Emotions are prevalent in the rhetoric of populist politicians and among their electorate. We argue that partially dissimilar emotional processes may be driving right- and left-wing populism. Existing research has associated populism with …
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Social comparison, personal relative deprivation, and materialism Open
Across five studies, we found consistent evidence for the idea that personal relative deprivation ( PRD ), which refers to resentment stemming from the belief that one is deprived of deserved outcomes compared to others, uniquely contribut…
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Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle? Experimental Evidence That Racial Resentment and Political Ideology Condition Responses to Racially Encoded Messages Open
Do appeals that subtly invoke negative racial stereotypes shift whites’ political attitudes by harnessing their racial prejudice? Though widely cited in academic and popular discourse, prior work finds conflicting evidence for this “dog-wh…
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Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey Open
This article scrutinizes the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to their country's ‘good old’ glorious days and exploiting resentment of the elites and establis…
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‘What are you feeling right now?’ communities of maternal feeling on Mumsnet Open
In this article, we present an analysis of how communities of maternal feeling are configured by users on the discussion boards of Mumsnet, a popular British online parenting forum. A search was conducted to find threads with the phrase ‘I…
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Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy Open
Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses these advances, focusing on the tension between elites’ exp…
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Terrorism and Migration: An Overview Open
This article provides an overview of the literature on the relationship between terrorism and migration. It discusses whether and how (1) migration may be a cause of terrorism, (2) terrorism may influence natives' attitudes towards immigra…
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The Rationality of Emotional Change: Toward a Process View* Open
The paper argues against a widely held synchronic view of emotional rationality. I begin by considering recent philosophical literature on various backward‐looking emotions, such as regret, grief, resentment, and anger. I articulate the ge…
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Race, Place, and Building a Base Open
A prominent feature of Donald Trump's campaign for president was the use of racially inflammatory rhetoric and fear over immigration—specifically from Mexico—to galvanize the electorate. Despite the commonly accepted assertion that hostili…
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Regional resentment in the Netherlands: A rural or peripheral phenomenon? Open
We study ‘regional resentment’, or the feeling that one’s region is not treated rightly by citizens and elites from other regions, in a European context. Is this mainly a rural or a peripheral phenomenon, or do these two contextual charact…
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Donald J. Trump and the rhetoric of <i>ressentiment</i> Open
This essay contributes to and reframes the preliminary scholarly assessments of President Donald J. Trump's appeals to rage, malice, and revenge by sketching the rhetorical dimensions of an underlying emotional-moral framework in which vic…
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Strawson, Moral Responsibility, and the “Order of Explanation”: An Intervention Open
Some have seen P. F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment" as suggesting a point about the "order of explanation" concerning moral responsibility: it is not that it is appropriate to hold agents responsible because they are morally responsib…
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Social comparison processes in the experience of personal relative deprivation Open
Drawing on social comparison and equity theories, we investigated the role that perceived similarity of a comparison target plays in how resentful people feel about their relative financial status. In Study 1, participants tended to choose…
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Understanding the Role of Racism in Contemporary US Public Opinion Open
In the contemporary context, it is inescapable that racism is a factor in US public opinion. When scholars take stock of the way we typically measure and conceptualize racism, we find reason to reconceptualize the racial resentment scale a…
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Japan’s ‘Resentful Realism’ and Balancing China’s Rise Open
Japan has been regarded by all mainstream International Relations theories as a status quo power intent on pursuing an immobilist international strategy toward China characterized by hedging rather than any move to active balancing. This p…
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Ressentiment: A Complex Emotion or an Emotional Mechanism of Psychic Defences? Open
Ressentiment is central for understanding the psychological foundations of reactionary politics, right-wing populism, Islamic fundamentalism, and radicalism. In this article we theorise ressentiment as an emotional mechanism which, reinfor…
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The Five Star Movement Open
The success of the Italian party Five Star Movement (M5S) has been broadly attributed to its ability to occupy the space of radical protest against “old politics”. Due to the party’s criticism, its charismatic leadership, and its aggressiv…
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Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade Open
The EU is still fragile after its long decade of crises since 2008, and its durability remains an open question. New capacities were created during this time. But it is not clear how robust they are and whether developing them further will…
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‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First Open
The discursive domain of (in)security is integral to nationalist populism, as documented in the political rhetoric of Donald Trump. This article combines insights from political psychology on blame attribution with scholarship in Internati…
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Belief in conspiracy theories and attitudes toward political violence Open
In the last decade, political protest events have been rising in Western democracies. At the same time, there has been a steady increase in the diffusion of conspiracy theories in political communication, a phenomenon that has captured the…
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The Dynamics of Racial Resentment across the 50 US States Open
Although many scholars who study the role of racial animus in Americans’ political attitudes and policy preferences do so to help us understand national-level politics, (racialized) policy is largely shaped at the state level. States are l…
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Enoch Powell, empires, immigrants and education Open
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech, an intervention that is still viewed as one of the most incendiary statements of the perceived decay and violence likely to follow legislation intended to…