skip to main | skip to sidebar

El otro lado de la luna

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Corey Robin - Fear: The History of a Political Idea.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, fear has played a crucial role in US politics. During the last presidential campaign, for example, the Republican team ran a television ad featuring menacing wolves roaming a dark forest. Simultaneously, a woman announcer warned voters that “weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm.” (Associated Press, 2004) In the context of a campaign centered on terrorism and national security, no one could miss the Republican message: only George W. Bush can adequately protect the United States against the terrorizing army of terrorist wolves. Only a few weeks before the ad appeared on television, Robb Willer, a young sociologist from Cornell University, published an online paper demonstrating that fear toward terrorism clearly advantaged the Republican President. Using time-series analyses, Willer showed that the Post-September 11 terror warnings have consistently increased popular support for the Republican President (Willer, 2004).

Posted by Olga Pizarro at 1:08 PM
Labels: Corey Robin, fear, Fear: The History of a Political Idea

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2022 (10)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2021 (185)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (32)
    • ►  March (63)
    • ►  February (29)
    • ►  January (35)
  • ►  2020 (201)
    • ►  December (20)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (19)
    • ►  May (16)
    • ►  April (50)
    • ►  March (25)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (20)
  • ►  2019 (14)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (8)
  • ►  2018 (7)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2017 (133)
    • ►  December (12)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (31)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ►  2016 (155)
    • ►  December (25)
    • ►  November (52)
    • ►  October (17)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (24)
    • ►  February (12)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2015 (250)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (8)
    • ►  October (22)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (19)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (48)
    • ►  April (35)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (23)
    • ►  January (51)
  • ►  2014 (138)
    • ►  December (16)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (10)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (14)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (11)
    • ►  April (22)
    • ►  March (12)
    • ►  February (25)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2013 (136)
    • ►  December (12)
    • ►  November (9)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (15)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (19)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (18)
  • ►  2012 (213)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (26)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (14)
    • ►  May (19)
    • ►  April (34)
    • ►  March (39)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (32)
  • ▼  2011 (464)
    • ►  December (12)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (73)
    • ►  September (35)
    • ▼  August (25)
      • Arthur Rimbaud’s brief career
      • Enrique Krauze: Latinoamerica -el siglo perdido
      • Carlos Fuentes - The buried mirror
      • Steve Jobs
      • Latin America - The left turn left behind
      • Corey Robin - Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
      • The Reactionary Mind
      • Political Fear - Total terror
      • Schönbrunn Palace - Vienna
      • Vienna
      • La historia de Auschwitz
      • Adam Curtis - Machines of Loving Grace
      • Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on the Debt Ceiling A...
      • The Black War Over Obama -“Call to Conscience”
      • Moving Planet
      • Obama impersonator
      • Art in America - contemporary women artists
      • Berlin architecture
      • Matrix
      • Post Anarchism
      • From Tahrir Square to…Wall Street?
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Judith Butler
      • The Rise of Hitler
      • Eugenics and the Nazis -the California connection
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (48)
    • ►  March (67)
    • ►  February (76)
    • ►  January (74)
  • ►  2010 (721)
    • ►  December (101)
    • ►  November (54)
    • ►  October (77)
    • ►  September (36)
    • ►  August (24)
    • ►  July (39)
    • ►  June (52)
    • ►  May (103)
    • ►  April (64)
    • ►  March (47)
    • ►  February (39)
    • ►  January (85)
  • ►  2009 (38)
    • ►  December (38)

About Me

My photo
Olga Pizarro
San Francisco, CA, United States
https://twitter.com/OPizarro7
View my complete profile