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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Katherine J. Cramer

Why do many rural voters feel that cities, public workers and the educated take their share, and how does that feeling steer their politics?

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Author
Katherine J. Cramer

Why read it

  • You will learn to listen to people you disagree with before explaining their views away
  • You will see why anger often points at neighbors who seem different rather than at those in power
  • You will be able to tell a sense of being overlooked from a simple party label

Who it is for

  • An organizer working across a political divide
  • A city dweller who cannot understand rural neighbors
  • A rural resident who feels talked past

Contents

  1. The Politics of Resentment
  2. CHAPTER ONE
  3. Making Sense of Politics through Resentment
  4. Why the Focus on “Us” versus “Them” and Social Identities?
  5. My Window Is Wisconsin
  6. Rural Consciousness
  7. The Importance of Place in Contemporary American Politics
  8. Public Opinion among Ordinary People
  9. Why Study Group Conversation?
  10. Plan of the Book
  11. CHAPTER TWO
  12. A Method of Listening
  13. Choosing the Communities, Finding the Groups
  14. Presenting Myself
  15. The Evolution of the Project
  16. What Were These Visits Like?
  17. Analyzing the Data
  18. Conclusion
  19. CHAPTER THREE
  20. The Contours of Rural Consciousness
  21. Republican and Rural: Not Just a Correlation
  22. Where Is “Rural” in Wisconsin?
  23. Power
  24. Values and Lifestyles
  25. Conceptions of Hard Work
  26. Resources
  27. Isn’t This Really Just about Race?
  28. Conclusion
  29. CHAPTER FOUR
  30. The Context of Rural Consciousness
  31. Taxes and Spending by the Numbers
  32. What the Numbers May Not Reveal
  33. Measuring Perceptions of Unfairness
  34. Where Does Rural Consciousness Come From?
  35. Conclusion
  36. CHAPTER FIVE
  37. Attitudes toward Public Institutions and Public Employees
  38. “Hi! I’m from the UW–Madison. . . .”
  39. Distance from the University
  40. “UW and San Francisco Got about the Same Initials”
  41. “Got That Book Learning”
  42. Rural Resentment toward Public Employees and Institutions in General
  43. Comparing to Conversations in Other Places
  44. Conclusion
  45. CHAPTER SIX
  46. Support for Small Government
  47. Ambivalence about the Size of Government
  48. What Support for Small Government Sounds Like
  49. Political Principle? Or Identity and Resentment?
  50. Conclusion
  51. CHAPTER SEVEN
  52. Reactions to the Ruckus
  53. Noticing the Great Recession
  54. Making Sense of Who Is to Blame
  55. Reactions to Obama
  56. Reactions to Governor Scott Walker
  57. Tapping into These Understandings
  58. Conclusion
  59. CHAPTER EIGHT
  60. We Teach These Things to Each Other

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