Publications

Marcel Paret's paper examines movement politics. In this paper movement politics takes the form of a triangular relationship among three sets of actors: the international Communist movement, Black movements, and national Communist parties.

Scholars debate whether populism represents a potential corrective or an existential threat to democracy. Populism may enhance democracy by giving voice to previously neglected or marginalized groups (Bonikowski et al. 2019; Juon and Bochsler 2020; Mouffe 2005; Roberts 2012; Rovira Kaltwasser 2012). Others worry that populism undermines minority protections, government constraints, and the rule of law (Kenny 2020; Kriesi 2014; Müller 2016; Pappas 2015; Taggart 2000; Urbinati 2019). We develop general propositions that consider both possibilities.

Publications by our Sociology & Criminology Faculty at the University of Utah

The drying of lakes with no outlets, also called terminal lakes or inland seas, is a major ecological catastrophe of the twenty-first century.