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Mass Politics in Tough Times - Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession (Paperback, New)
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Mass Politics in Tough Times - Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession (Paperback, New)
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The impact of the Great Depression on politics in the 1930s was
both transformative and shocking. The role of government in America
was forever transformed, and across Europe socialist, communist,
and fascist parties saw their support skyrocket. Most famously, the
National Socialists seized power in Germany in 1933, setting off a
chain of events that led to the greatest conflagration in world
history. The recent Great Recession has not been as severe as the
Great Recession, but it has been severe enough, producing a half
decade of negative and/or slow growth across the advanced
industrial world. Yet the response by voters has been
extraordinarily muted considering the circumstances. Why is this?
In Mass Politics in Tough Times, the eminent political scientists
Larry Bartels and Nancy Bermeo have gathered a group of leading
scholars to analyze the political responses to the Great Recession
in the US, Western Europe, and East-Central Europe. In contrast to
works that focus on policy responses to the Recession, they examine
how ordinary voters have responded. In almost every country, most
voters have not shifted their allegiance to either far left or far
right parties. Instead, they've continued to act as they have in
more normal times: vote based on their own personal circumstances
and punish the incumbents who were on watch when the bad turn
occurred regardless of whether they were center-left or
center-right. In some countries, electoral trends that existed
before the Recession have continued. The US, for instance, saw no
real increase in popular support for an expanded welfare state. In
fact, the anti-regulatory right, which gained strength before the
Recession occurred, experienced a series of victories in Wisconsin
after 2008. Interestingly, states that had strong welfare systems
have seen the least political realignment. As the contributors
show, ordinary voters tend to vote based on their own experiences,
and those in expansive welfare states have been buffered from the
harshest effects of the Recession. That said, states with weaker
welfare systems-e.g., Greece-have seen significant political
turmoil. Moreover, there have been a small number of cases of
popular radicalization, and the contributors have been able to
isolate the cause: when voters can establish a clear and direct
connection between the actions of political elites and economic
hardship, they will throw their support to protest parties on the
right and left. Ultimately, though, the picture is one of
relatively stoic acceptance of the downturn by the majority of
publics. Featuring an impressive range of cases, this will stand as
the most comprehensive scholarly account of the Great Recession's
impact on political behavior in advanced economies.
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