Mass Politics In Tough Times Opinions Votes And Protest In The Great
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780199357512
Description: This book reveals how ordinary people in rich democracies responded to the Great Recession. Through cross-national statistical work and detailed case comparison, it surveys how the economic crisis affected elections, public opinion and protest behaviour between 2008 and 2011. It shows that incumbents were generally punished harshly at the polls regardless of whether they were of the left or right, yet it also reveals that citizens reacted to the recession with surprising moderation in other realms of mass politics.