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Why Bother? - Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (Paperback)
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Why Bother? - Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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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.
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