Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, But Report Everything Else: A Pragmatic Proposal for Denying Mass Killers the Attention They Seek and Deterring Future Offenders - Adam Lankford, Eric Madfis, 2018 Prior research has shown that many mass shooters have explicitly admitted they want fame and have directly reached out to media organizations to get it. These f...

As long as we continue to give them the notoriety they crave, this will keep happening.

Volume 62 Issue 2, February 2018
Special Issue: Media Coverage of Mass Killers: Content, Consequences, and Solutions
Guest Editors: Adam Lankford and Eric Madfis

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

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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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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.

By Mark S. Mizruchi in @absjournal.bsky.social

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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.

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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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Florida's New Law on Immigrants May Foreshadow What's To Come | Opinion Florida's experience under Senate Bill 1718 foreshadows the national consequences of large-scale immigration crackdowns.

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.

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Current issue: Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Empirical Studies
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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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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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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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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 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...

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

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

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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.

Democracy Revised: Democratic Imaginary and Emerging Autocracy in Post-Soviet Russia - Yulia Prozorova, 2024 Contemporary autocracies often maintain a connection with democracy. They do not entirely dismantle the democratic structures established within unfinished mode...

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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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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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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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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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