Mexico at the World’s Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and the Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (review)

Schemas of the Nation in Modern Democracies

This study develops a novel analytical approach for studying popular conceptions of the nationstate that accounts for both withinand between-country heterogeneity and avoids a priori assumptions about the national boundedness of culture. I identify widely shared attitudinal patterns among a pooled sample of over 27,000 respondents from thirty countries and only subsequently examine those respon...

Re-Crafting Rights over Common Property Resources in Mexico

Agrarian Attorney General), and the World Bank for financial and/or logistical support with data collection. We are obliged to the representatives and members of agrarian communities for their participation in the surveys and case studies. have dominated thinking about the endogenous evolution of land rights from open access to individual property. According to these views, there are two fundam...

Crafting Social Issues at Work

I present and test a model of issue crafting, in which individuals shape the meaning of social issues by intentionally using language in public that portrays those issues in ways that differ from the individuals’ private understandings of the issues. Using statements collected with an experimental design, I found that the public language individuals used was more economic and less normative tha...

Unearthing the nation: modern geology and nationalism in Republican China.