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

Aytaç, S. Erdem S. Erdem Aytaç, Susan C. Stokes,

ISBN 10: 1108475221 / ISBN 13: 9781108475228

Published by Cambridge University Press -, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Bother?: Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press -
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108475221
• ISBN 13: 9781108475228
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

S. Erdem Aytaç is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, Connecticut in 2014. Aytaç's research interests lie in political behavior with a focus on democratic accountability and political participation. His previous work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Behavior, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among other journals. He is the recipient of the 2016 Young Scientist Award of Science Academy (Turkey) and the 2018 Sakýp Sabancý International Research Award.

Susan C. Stokes is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.