About the Episode

Join us this month on the Compact Nation Podcast for conversations on bridging the Rural / Urban divide with leading expert Kathy Cramer, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director for the Morgridge Center for Public Service. She and our host Emily Shields discuss her book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, and strategies for respectfully leading engagement work in rural communities.

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Guests

​​​​​​​Katherine J. Cramer is Director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. She is known for her innovative approach to the study of public opinion, in which she invites herself into the conversations of groups of people to listen to the way they understand public affairs. Her book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, examines rural resentment toward cities and its implications for contemporary politics.

Your Hosts

Andrew Seligsohn

President

Emily J. Shields

Executive Director, Iowa & Minnesota Campus Compact

J.R. Jamison

Executive Director, Indiana Campus Compact