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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 154 pages)
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ISBN:
9781108690416
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Content:
Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How do politicians and activists manipulate people's emotions to get them involved? The authors of Why Bother? offer a new theory of why people take part in collective action in politics, and test it in the contexts of voting and protesting. They develop the idea that just as there are costs of participation in politics, there are also costs of abstention - intrinsic and psychological but no less real. That abstention can be psychically costly helps explain real-world patterns that are anomalies for existing theories, such as that sometimes increases in costs of participation are followed by more participation, not less. The book draws on a wealth of survey data, interviews, and experimental results from a range of countries, including the United States, Britain, Brazil, Sweden, and Turkey
Content:
Introduction : rethinking political participation -- Theories of voter participation : a review and a new approach -- Testing the costly abstention theory of turnout -- Theories of protest -- Participation : a review and a new approach -- Testing the costly abstention theory of protest participation -- The emotional origins of collective action -- Conclusions : criticisms, extensions, and democratic theory
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jan 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108475228
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108465946
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe Aytaç, Selim Erdem, 1980 - Why bother? Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108465946
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108475228
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Politische Beteiligung
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Protestbewegung
;
Wahlenthaltung
;
Wahl
DOI:
10.1017/9781108690416
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