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August 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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The Political Role of Social Media Influencers: Strategies, Types, and Implications for Democracy—An Introduction

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June 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 69, Number 4

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The April 2025 issue of ABS is available online.

The Emotional Side of Populist Support: Key Affective Mechanisms at Test
Guest Editors: Monika Verbalyte, @dbonansinga.bsky.social, and @terezacapelos.bsky.social

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March 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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America’s corporate elite has shifted from postwar pragmatists to ruthless champions of free-market conservatism. Our open-access article of the week examines the global and domestic factors behind elite fragmentation.

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March 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Current Issue

Volume 69 Issue 3, March 2025
Special Issue: In Search of a Greener Pasture? Post-2019 Migrations From Hong Kong
Guest Editors: Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To

The issue examines the outmigration waves of Hong Kong after 2019, when Hong Kong witnessed a series of social protests.

February 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 69, Number 2, Feb 01, 2025

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Current Issue

Volume 69 Issue 2, February 2025
Special Issue: Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Empirical Studies
Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Jeong-Nam Kim

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February 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Florida's New Law on Immigrants May Foreshadow What's To Come | Opinion

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Elizabeth Aranda, a contributor to and guest editor of several 𝘈𝘉𝘚 issues, has published an article in 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 with Liz Ventura on findings from their research on Florida’s immigration law and what this indicates about the outcomes of mass deportations.

Florida's experience under Senate Bill 1718 foreshadows the national consequences of large-scale immigration crackdowns.

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January 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 69, Number 2, Feb 01, 2025

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Current issue: Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Empirical Studies
Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Jeong-Nam Kim

Volume 69 Issue 2, February 2025

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#Media #SocialMedia #PseudoInformation #Misinformation

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January 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Volume 68 Issue 7, June 2024
Special Issue: Mis/Disinformation in Storytelling: The January 6 Insurrection and Other Crises
Guest Editor: Gregory Payne

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January 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 68, Number 12, Nov 01, 2024

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Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social

Some of the articles are available Open Access

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January 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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January 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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ABS issues are all special issues, focusing on a single topic organized by a guest editor or editors. Issues are interdisciplinary and international in scope.

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Note: We do not solicit or accept individual submissions.

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December 14, 2024 at 3:44 PM

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First published online November 29, 2024; available Open Access

Immigrant Threat, Racial Competition, and White Resistance to Police and Criminal Justice Reform
Jonathan C. Reid, Javier Ramos, and Samantha J. Brown

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December 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM

American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 0, Number 0

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Once the manuscript for a special issue of ABS is received and accepted, we begin the production process. Articles are then publish in OnlineFirst in advance of the issue’s publication.

There are many fascinating articles at the link; have a look!

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December 14, 2024 at 3:35 PM

Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis - Ciara Graham, Brendan K. O’Rourke, 2024

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Open Access article from the December 2024 issue:

Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis

by Ciara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke

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This paper argues that the state’s capacity to tax corporations in order to fund itself is reaching crisis proportions. Following decades of trade liberalizatio...

December 5, 2024 at 6:23 PM

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Check out our latest issue.

Volume 68 Issue 14, December 2024
Crisis: Sovereign or Distributed?
Guest Editors Simone Polillo and André Vereta-Nahoum

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December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM

Q&A: Cecilia Menjívar on authoritarian tactics in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign

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ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.

The UCLA sociologist discusses how to think critically about the threat of autocracy.

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November 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM

Democracy Revised: Democratic Imaginary and Emerging Autocracy in Post-Soviet Russia - Yulia Prozorova, 2024

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“Democracy Revised: Democratic Imaginary and Emerging Autocracy in Post-Soviet Russia” by Yulia Prozorova is available via Open Access on the ABS website.

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Contemporary autocracies often maintain a connection with democracy. They do not entirely dismantle the democratic structures established within unfinished mode...

November 19, 2024 at 1:49 AM

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“Social Movement Partyism and Congressional Opposition to Certifying the 2020 Presidential Election Results in the United States” by Nella Van Dyke, Kyle Dodson, Paul Almeida, and Jaqueline Novoa is available via Open Access on the ABS website.

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November 19, 2024 at 12:40 AM

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Luiza Monetti’s article in Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjívar’s issue on The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide is available via Open Access:

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Autocratic Subversion of Brazil’s Fourth Estate

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November 14, 2024 at 4:22 PM

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Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjívar’s introductory article to their issue on The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide is available via Open Access on the ABS website!

The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide: Authoritarian Networks, the Façade of Democracy, and Neo-Repression

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November 14, 2024 at 4:18 PM

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American Behavioral Scientist, published 14 times a year by SAGE, is now on Bluesky!

Check out our November issue, The Tools of Autocracy Across the World, guest editors Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjivar.

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#SocialScience #Autocracy

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