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Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Status, Power, and Intergroup Relations: The Personal Is the Societal. [PDF]

open access: yesCurr Opin Psychol, 2016
Fiske ST   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bureaucrats in Campaigns: Elections Increase Dysfunctional Behaviors Among Civil Servants

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Elections are essential for democracy, but the turbulence and uncertainty they bring can disrupt the functioning of public organizations. This study investigates how elections may trigger dysfunctional interpersonal dynamics and behaviors among civil servants.
Gustavo M. Tavares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anticipated Stigma and Burnout: The Impact of Concerns About Being Perceived as Racist Among Law Enforcement Officers

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The “racist cop” stereotype is one of the most prominent social representations of law enforcement in the United States. Drawing on theories of stereotype threat and stigma, this article suggests that this negative stereotype creates an identity threat that heightens anxiety and stress among law enforcement officers, increasing the risks of ...
Shahidul Hassan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Soc Psychol
Abstract Social psychological research exploring the rhetoric of Eurosceptic, right‐wing populist actors and laypeople's argumentation in the polarizing context of Brexit has indicated the emotion‐laden nature of EU‐related issues. However, few studies have explicitly united affective and discursive psychological analyses of these topics.
Tormis H, Sakki I, Pettersson K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

“Taking What's Ours”: Restrictionist Attitudes Toward Immigration and Threat to Sense of Group Position in the United States

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Calls to limit immigration are fueled by the belief immigration threatens individual and collective welfare, yet studies on support for restrictionism remain equivocal on this relationship. We explore this relationship and contribute to existing research by measuring group threat as a latent construct based on Blumer's (1958:3) definition of it as an ...
Lynn Hempel, Noel Strapko
wiley   +1 more source

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