Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement

Berlet, Chip

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“…This is consistent with current literature on the Tea Party (Berlet, 2012;Trost and Rosenthal, 2012) and other disciplines. 'High ingroup solidarity' often transpires and serves as a defence mechanism for reflections about the opposing side (Goffman, 1959: 209).…”

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The politics of sustainable development opposition: State legislative efforts to stop the United Nation’s Agenda 21 in the United States

2014

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The Tea Party exploded on the US political scene with President Barack Obama's election and scholarly research focuses on its role in national issues. However, Tea Party and property rights advocates, among others, also fiercely oppose sustainability city planning issues, recently having legislation introduced in 26 US states to stop such practices. They perceive planning as directly connected to the United Nation's 1992 document, Agenda 21: the Rio Declaration on Development and Environment. The counter-narrative suggests the UN seeks to restrict individual property rights and American sovereignty. Meanwhile, Agenda 21-related planning is favourably considered and practiced worldwide. Through a mixed-methods approach using quantitative and case-based research, we track the opposition's emergence through the introduction and sometimes adoption of state legislation. We draw conclusions and implications for research and practice using a theoretical framework routed in scholarship from planning, geography, political science, and communications/new media.

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“…Ashbee, 2011;Berlet, 2012;Skocpol and Williamson, 2011;Throgmorton, 2013). The fourth narrative on increased citizen engagement (Disch, 2012) does not have readily available national data for this measure.…”

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The politics of sustainable development opposition: State legislative efforts to stop the United Nation’s Agenda 21 in the United States

2014

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“…This was achieved with some sophistication. As was often noted by observers, Tea Party members distinguished between different kinds of government policies (Berlet 2012, Disch 2012, Williamson, Skocpol and Coggin 2011. The activists' vitriolic attacks on federal government programs usually exempted the two largest programs in the national budget: Social Security and Medicare.…”

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Cultural foundations of right-wing politics in the United States: The case of the Tea Party movement

Wald

Vasquez

2018

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“…However, Tea Party members tend to be in a financial situation whereby they lack significant wealth yet are unable to receive social welfare services (Skocpol and Williamson 2012). As a result, they feel attacked from both people below them in the social hierarchy benefiting from such programs, and perceived elitists who make the policy decisions that fund social welfare programs (Berlet 2012b).…”

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Individual Responsibility, Culture, or State Organized Enslavement? How Tea Party Activists Frame Racial Inequality

Haltinner

2015

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This article explores how Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists produce and circulate stories about racial inequality, presenting four distinct frames that reflect nonconformity in the Tea Party's racial narrative. Activists engage with four racial frames: racism denial, individual responsibility, cultural responsibility, and structural responsibility. The Tea Party unites using frame amplification to emphasize the master frame of color blindness that allows activists, regardless of the frame with which they engage, to unite under the broader notion that they are all idyllically color blind.

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Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement

Cited by 23 publications

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The politics of sustainable development opposition: State legislative efforts to stop the United Nation’s Agenda 21 in the United States

The politics of sustainable development opposition: State legislative efforts to stop the United Nation’s Agenda 21 in the United States

Cultural foundations of right-wing politics in the United States: The case of the Tea Party movement

Individual Responsibility, Culture, or State Organized Enslavement? How Tea Party Activists Frame Racial Inequality

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