The pairing of massive data sets with processes—or algorithms—written in computer code to
sort through, organize, extract, or mine them has made inroads in almost every major social …

In this article, we take stock of the institutional logics perspective and highlight opportunities
for new scholarship. While we celebrate the growth and generativity of the literature on …

Populism is on the rise in many countries. Scholars have stated that it is characteristic for
political populism to describe society as a fundamental struggle between an allegedly …

Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about
populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical …

In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for
contemporary neoliberal culture–and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new …

In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

Street level discretion--Three pathologies: the indifferent, the enforcer, and the caregiver--A
gymnastics of the self: coping with the everyday pressures of street-level work--When the …

Populism is the name of a global phenomenon whose definitional precariousness is
proverbial. It resists generalizations and makes scholars of politics comparativist by …

Political scientists often criticize psychological approaches to the study of politics on the
grounds that many psychological theories were developed on convenience samples of …

In recent decades, dictatorships based on mass repression have largely given way to a new
model based on the manipulation of information. Instead of terrorizing citizens into …