Why Bother

Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19934780
AutoresS Erdem Aytaç (Koç University), C Stoke (0000-0001-9389-2826, University of Chicago), Susan C Stokes
Año2018
Fecha de publicación2018-11-30
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaWhy Bother? (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108690416
OpenAlexW4237726693
Open LibraryOL34720407M
ISBN9781108690416
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

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

Action (physics) · Collective action · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology · Abstention · Political aspects · Political participation · Politische Beteiligung · Politischer Protest · Protest movements · Protestbewegung · Voter turnout · Voting research · Wahl · Wahlbeteiligung · Wahlenthaltung