The Micro Logic Of Tactical Protest Voting

Author : Christian Henning Schimpf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658335717

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The Micro Logic of Tactical Protest Voting by Christian Henning Schimpf Pdf

This book identifies the different forms that protest voting can take in times when populism flourishes. Contrary to the popular view of protest voting as merely venting frustration, this book argues that protest voting can also be conceived of as a strategic signal of discontent, originating from sources, such as party policy positions. The empirical analyses rest on election survey data collected in democratic countries around the world between 2005 and 2017 to understand protest voting as a strategic signal, and the conditions under which it occurs. The main results show that protest voting can indeed be a strategic signal. This finding challenges the predominant view in the literature and the public discourse of protest voters as aimless, frustrated voters.

Author : John H Aldrich,André Blais,Laura B Stephenson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131020

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The Many Faces of Strategic Voting by John H Aldrich,André Blais,Laura B Stephenson Pdf

Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.

Author : James M. Jasper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226394961

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The Art of Moral Protest by James M. Jasper Pdf

In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing organizational forms. "A provocative perspective on the cultural implications of political and social protest."—Library Journal

Author : Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803921235

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Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology by Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni Pdf

This comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedia, featuring entries written by academic experts in the field, explores the diverse topics within the discipline of political sociology. By looking at both macro- and micro-components, questions relating to nation-states, political institutions and their development, and the sources of social and political change such as social movements and other forms of contentious politics, are raised and critically analysed.

Author : Susan C. Stokes,Thad Dunning,Marcelo Nazareno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107042209

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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism by Susan C. Stokes,Thad Dunning,Marcelo Nazareno Pdf

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do not justify non-programmatic distribution.

Author : Cees Van der Eijk,Mark N. Franklin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137013637

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Elections and Voters by Cees Van der Eijk,Mark N. Franklin Pdf

This major new text by two leading authorities in the field provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behaviour and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states. It shows how patterns of electoral behaviour have evolved over time and vary in different countries.

Author : Evgeny Finkel,Yitzhak M. Brudny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317980247

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Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions by Evgeny Finkel,Yitzhak M. Brudny Pdf

Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that students of democratization and democracy promotion should study not only the successful colour revolutions, but also the colour revolution prevention strategies adopted by authoritarian elites. Based on a series of qualitative, country-focused studies the book explores the whole spectrum of anti-democratization policies, adopted by autocratic rulers and demonstrates that authoritarian regimes studied democracy promotion techniques, used in various colour revolutions, and focused their prevention strategies on combatting these techniques. The book proposes a new typology of authoritarian reactions to the challenge of democratization and argues that the specific mix of policies and rhetoric, adopted by each authoritarian regime, depended on the perceived intensity of threat to regime survival and the regime’s perceived strength vis-à-vis the democratic opposition. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : Antina von Schnitzler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691170787

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Democracy's Infrastructure by Antina von Schnitzler Pdf

In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy’s Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy takes shape. Von Schnitzler explores a controversial project to install prepaid water meters in Soweto—one of many efforts to curb the nonpayment of service charges that began during the antiapartheid struggle—and she traces how infrastructure, payment, and technical procedures become sites where citizenship is mediated and contested. She follows engineers, utility officials, and local bureaucrats as they consider ways to prompt Sowetans to pay for water, and she shows how local residents and activists wrestle with the constraints imposed by meters. This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa’s transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material terms about citizenship and activism in the postcolonial world. Democracy’s Infrastructure examines how seemingly mundane technological domains become charged territory for struggles over South Africa’s political transformation.

Author : Anthony Francis Heath,Roger Jowell,John Curtice
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002479013

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How Britain Votes by Anthony Francis Heath,Roger Jowell,John Curtice Pdf

Author : Shirin M. Rai,Milija Gluhovic,Silvija Jestrovic,Michael Saward
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190863456

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The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance by Shirin M. Rai,Milija Gluhovic,Silvija Jestrovic,Michael Saward Pdf

While political scientists and political theorists have long been interested in social and political performance, and theatre and performance researchers have often focused on the political dimensions of the live arts, the interdisciplinary nature of this labor has typically been assumed rather than rigorously explored. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of Politics and Performance--drawing on experts across the fields of literature, law,anthropology, sociology, psychology, and media and communiction, as well as politics and theatre and performance--to map out and deepen the evolving interdisciplinary engagement. Organized into seven thematic sections, the volume investigates the relationship between politics and performance to show thatcertain features of political transactions shared by performances are fundamental to both disciplines--and that to a large extent they also share a common communicational base and language.

Author : Olga Bailey,Bart Cammaerts,Nico Carpentier
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335235056

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EBOOK: Understanding Alternative Media by Olga Bailey,Bart Cammaerts,Nico Carpentier Pdf

What are alternative media? What roles do alternative media play in pluralistic, democratic societies? What are the similarities and differences between alternative media, community media, civil society media and rhizomatic media? How do alternative media work in practice? This clear and concise text offers a one-stop guide through the complex political, social and economic debates that surround alternative media and provides a fresh and insightful look at the renewed importance of this form of communication. Combing diverse case studies from countries including the UK, North America and Brazil, the authors propose an original theoretical framework to help understand the subject. Looking at both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media, the book argues for the importance of an alternative media and suggests a political agenda as a way of broadening its scope. Understanding Alternative Media is valuable reading for students in media, journalism and communications studies, researchers, academics, and journalists.

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Current events
ISBN : UOM:39015045920264

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : Dawn Brancati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107137738

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Democracy Protests by Dawn Brancati Pdf

This book presents a rich analysis of modern democracy protests globally, using qualitative and quantitative evidence to describe trends in causes and consequences.

Author : Steven J. Rosenstone,Roy L. Behr,Edward H. Lazarus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190525

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Third Parties in America by Steven J. Rosenstone,Roy L. Behr,Edward H. Lazarus Pdf

In recent years a growing number of citizens have defected from the major parties to third party presidential candidates. Over the past three decades, independent campaigns led by George Wallace, John Anderson, and Ross Perot have attracted more electoral support than at any time since the 1920s. Third Parties in America explains why and when the two-party system deteriorates and third parties flourish. Relying on data from presidential elections between 1840 and 1992, it identifies the situations in which Americans abandon the major parties and shows how third parties encourage major party responsiveness and broader representation of political interests.

Author : Zeynep Tufekci
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780300228175

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Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci Pdf

A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change. Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.