Ned Crowley

New York University | NYU · Department of Sociology

In this chapter, I ask whether fiscal austerity since the global financial crisis can help explain the growth in anti-immigrant sentiment that undergirds right-wing populism, focusing in particular on the United States and the United Kingdom. This empirical question also speaks to a theoretical issue central to populism scholarship: What explains t...

The Political Participation Project (P3) is a collaborative, multi-site ethnographic and interview study. This report presents findings from six months of data collection across three field sites in New York City in collaboration with community-based organizations working to address social, economic, and political inequalities. We follow recent sch...

Trump’s political breakthrough fits a larger American pattern, from Andrew Jackson to the present, recalling red scares, racial wars, and fears of foreign subversion and terrorism.

By many accounts, the rising prominence of right-wing populism in Western democracies, including its role in the U.S. presidential election and Britain’s E.U. membership referendum in 2016, reflects voters’ accumulating economic and xenophobic anxieties. The halting recovery from the global recession combined with increasingly diverse national comm...

We present a political sociological analysis of the social bases of support for Donald Trump during the critical phase of his victory in the Republican nominating contest. In particular, we test the widely voiced hypothesis that a critical source of Trump’s support in the GOP primaries came from his appeal to working class and/or downwardly mobile...

Responses to Hurricane Sandy consistently cluster into two types according to how the issues have been defined and understood. On one hand, the crisis was seen as an extreme weather event that created physical and economic damage, and temporarily moved New York City away from its status quo. On the other hand, Hurricane Sandy exacerbated crises whi...

This research update presents an aggregation and summary of recent academic literature on youth bullying. The purpose of this document is to “translate” scholarly research for a concerned public audience, which may include but is not limited to parents, caregivers, educators, and practitioners. This translation highlights recent findings and develo...

This research update presents an aggregation and summary of recent academic literature on youth bullying. The purpose of this document is to “translate” scholarly research for a concerned public audience, which may include but is not limited to parents, caregivers, educators, and practitioners. This translation highlights recent findings and develo...