The ANNALS of the AAPSS 644

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 2012: Volume 644

Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption
Dhavan V. Shah, Lewis A. Friedland, Chris Wells, Young Mie Kim, and Hernando Rojas

Situating Consumption in Politics

The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation
W. Lance Bennett

The Politics of Consumer Debt: U.S. State Policy and the Rise of Investment in Consumer Credit, 1920–2008
Louis Hyman

Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950–2010
Erika L. Paulson and Thomas C. O’Guinn

What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for Action
Kjerstin Thorson

Sustainable Citizenship and Social Capital

Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption
Michele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle

Political Consumerism and New Forms of Political Participation: The Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in Italy
Paolo R. Graziano and Francesca Forno

Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste
Nam-Jin Lee, Christine L. Garlough, Lewis A. Friedland, and Dhavan V. Shah

The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Toward a Model of the Citizenry in Life Politics
Young Mie Kim

Conscious Consumption and Activism

Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious Consumer
Margaret M. Willis and Juliet B. Schor

Buying In to Social Change: How Private Consumption Choices Engender Concern for the Collective
Lucy Atkinson

From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen: Implications of Individual and Collective Orientations toward Political Consumerism
Melissa R. Gotlieb and Chris Wells

Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004: Disentangling Cohort and Period Effects
D. Jasun Carr, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee, and Dhavan V. Shah

Questioning Assumptions about the Citizen-Consumer

Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable Markets
Douglas B. Holt

The Civic Consequences of "Going Negative": Attack Ads and Adolescents’ Knowledge, Consumption, and Participation
Ming Wang, Itay Gabay, and Dhavan V. Shah

Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Thomas Hove

Consuming Ourselves to Dearth: Escalating Inequality and Public Opinion
Lewis A. Friedland, Hernando Rojas, and Leticia Bode