As long as we continue to give them the notoriety they crave, this will keep happening. Volume 62 Issue 2, February 2018 Special Issue: Media Coverage of Mass Killers: Content, Consequences, and Solutions Guest Editors: Adam Lankford and Eric Madfis

OnlineFirst: The Political Role of Social Media Influencers: Strategies, Types, and Implications for Democracy—An Introduction ‪@cvsikorski.bsky.social‬, ‪@pmerz.bsky.social‬, ‪@raffaelheiss.bsky.social‬, ‪@kathrinkarsay.bsky.social‬, @briginad.bsky.social‬, and ‪@desireeschmuck.bsky.social‬

The April 2025 issue of ABS is available online. The Emotional Side of Populist Support: Key Affective Mechanisms at Test Guest Editors: Monika Verbalyte, @dbonansinga.bsky.social, and @terezacapelos.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/curr...

America’s corporate elite has shifted from postwar pragmatists to ruthless champions of free-market conservatism. Our open-access article of the week examines the global and domestic factors behind elite fragmentation. By Mark S. Mizruchi in @absjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/x5XxZw9

Current Issue Volume 69 Issue 3, March 2025 Special Issue: In Search of a Greener Pasture? Post-2019 Migrations From Hong Kong Guest Editors: Yuk Wah Chan and Yvette To The issue examines the outmigration waves of Hong Kong after 2019, when Hong Kong witnessed a series of social protests.

Current Issue Volume 69 Issue 2, February 2025 Special Issue: Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Empirical Studies Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Jeong-Nam Kim journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/curr...

Elizabeth Aranda, a contributor to and guest editor of several 𝘈𝘉𝘚 issues, has published an article in 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 with Liz Ventura on findings from their research on Florida’s immigration law and what this indicates about the outcomes of mass deportations.

Current issue: Pseudo-Information, Media, Publics, and the Failing Marketplace of Ideas – Empirical Studies Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Jeong-Nam Kim Volume 69 Issue 2, February 2025 journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/curr... #Media #SocialMedia #PseudoInformation #Misinformation

Volume 68 Issue 7, June 2024 Special Issue: Mis/Disinformation in Storytelling: The January 6 Insurrection and Other Crises Guest Editor: Gregory Payne journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/7

Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024 Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social Some of the articles are available Open Access journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12

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ABS issues are all special issues, focusing on a single topic organized by a guest editor or editors. Issues are interdisciplinary and international in scope. Prospectus submission guidelines are here: journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... Note: We do not solicit or accept individual submissions.

First published online November 29, 2024; available Open Access Immigrant Threat, Racial Competition, and White Resistance to Police and Criminal Justice Reform Jonathan C. Reid, Javier Ramos, and Samantha J. Brown journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Once the manuscript for a special issue of ABS is received and accepted, we begin the production process. Articles are then publish in OnlineFirst in advance of the issue’s publication. There are many fascinating articles at the link; have a look! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/0/0

Open Access article from the December 2024 issue: Ideological Presuppositions in Media Coverage of Corporation Tax Policy in the UK and Ireland: A Critical Discourse Analysis by Ciara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our latest issue. Volume 68 Issue 14, December 2024 Crisis: Sovereign or Distributed? Guest Editors Simone Polillo and André Vereta-Nahoum journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/curr...

ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.

“Democracy Revised: Democratic Imaginary and Emerging Autocracy in Post-Soviet Russia” by Yulia Prozorova is available via Open Access on the ABS website. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Social Movement Partyism and Congressional Opposition to Certifying the 2020 Presidential Election Results in the United States” by Nella Van Dyke, Kyle Dodson, Paul Almeida, and Jaqueline Novoa is available via Open Access on the ABS website. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Luiza Monetti’s article in Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjívar’s issue on The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide is available via Open Access: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Autocratic Subversion of Brazil’s Fourth Estate journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjívar’s introductory article to their issue on The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide is available via Open Access on the ABS website! The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide: Authoritarian Networks, the Façade of Democracy, and Neo-Repression journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

American Behavioral Scientist, published 14 times a year by SAGE, is now on Bluesky! Check out our November issue, The Tools of Autocracy Across the World, guest editors Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjivar. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ABS/curr... #SocialScience #Autocracy