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Mass politics in tough times : opinions, votes, and protest in the Great Recession
Nancy Bermeo,Larry M. Bartels +1 more
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Bermeo and Bartels as discussed by the authors studied the dynamics of economic opinions during the Great Recession and found that people were more likely to support redistribution in the United Kingdom during the financial crisis.Abstract:
About the Contributors Chapter 1: Mass Politics in Tough Times Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels Chapter 2: Crisis of Confidence?: The Dynamics of Economic Opinions during the Great Recession Christopher J. Anderson and Jason D. Hecht Chapter 3: Political Understanding of Economic Crises:: The Shape of Resentment toward Public Employees Katherine Cramer Walsh Chapter 4: Economic Crisis and Support for Redistribution in the United Kingdom Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien Chapter 5: Economic Insecurity and Public Support for the Euro: Before and During the Financial Crisis Sara B. Hobolt and Patrick Leblond Chapter 6:Attitudes toward Immigration in Good Times and Bad Rafaela Dancygier and Michael Donnelly Chapter 7: Ideology and Retrospection in Electoral Responses to the Great Recession Larry M. Bartels Chapter 8: Crisis Perceptions and Economic Voting Among the Rich and the Poor: The United Kingdom and Germany Raymond M. Duch and Inaki Sagarzazu Chapter 9: The Electoral Impact of the Crisis on the French Working Class: More to the Right? Nonna Mayer Chapter 10: The Political Consequences of the Economic Crisis in Europe: Electoral Punishment and Popular Protest Hanspeter Kriesiread more
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The electoral consequences of the financial and economic crisis in Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the Great Recession on the stability and change of Western, Central and Eastern European party systems is assessed by combining insights from economic voting theories and the literature on party system change.
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Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis
Sara B. Hobolt,James Tilley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that voters who were economically adversely affected by the crisis punish mainstream parties both in government and in opposition by voting for challenger parties, and that the choice of specific challenger party is shaped by preferences on three issues that directly flow from the euro crisis: EU integration, austerity and immigration.
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The Breakdown of the Spanish Two-Party System: The Upsurge of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the 2015 General Election
Lluís Orriols,Guillermo Cordero +1 more
TL;DR: The 2015 general election marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain since the restoration of democracy and two new parties, "Podemos" and "Ciudadanos" as mentioned in this paper, entered the national arena for the first time and together obtained 34.6 percent of the vote.
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Retrospective Voting in American National Elections.
Heinz Eulau,Morris P. Fiorina +1 more
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Protest participation and economic crisis: The conditioning role of political opportunities
Maria T. Grasso,Marco Giugni +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the ways in which individual-level grievances interact with macro-level factors to impact on protest behavior and found that the impact of individual subjective feelings of deprivation is conditional on contextual macroeconomic and policy factors.
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An Economic Theory of Democracy
TL;DR: Downs presents a rational calculus of voting that has inspired much of the later work on voting and turnout as discussed by the authors, particularly significant was his conclusion that a rational voter should almost never bother to vote.
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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
TL;DR: The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality.
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