KATHERINE J. CRAMER is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where she is also director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and an affiliate faculty member in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the LaFollette School of Public Affairs, the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, and the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies. She is the author of Talking about Race and Talking about Politics, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Cramer, Katherine J. (Katherine Jean), author.

The politics of resentment : rural consciousness in Wisconsin and the rise of Scott Walker / Katherine J. Cramer.

pages cm—(Chicago studies in American politics)

ISBN 978-0-226-34908-4 (cloth : alkaline paper) —ISBN 978-0-226-34911-4 (paperback : alkaline paper) —ISBN (978-0-226-34925-1 (e-book) 1. Wisconsin—Politics and government—21st century. 2. Walker, Scott (Scott Kevin), 1967–3. Rural-urban divide—Wisconsin. I. Title. II. Series: Chicago studies in American politics.

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