Mass Politics in Tough Times : Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession / edited by Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book reveals how ordinary people in rich democracies responded to the Great Recession. Through cross-national statistical work and detailed case comparison, it surveys how the economic crisis affected elections, public opinion and protest behaviour between 2008 and 2011. It shows that incumbents were generally punished harshly at the polls regardless of whether they were of the left or right, yet it also reveals that citizens reacted to the recession with surprising moderation in other realms of mass politics.

English.

Mass politics in tough times / Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels -- Crisis of confidence?: the dynamics of economic opinions during the Great Recession / Christopher J. Anderson and Jason D. Hecht -- Political understanding of economic crises: the shape of resentment toward public employees / Katherine J. Cramer -- Economic crisis and support for redistribution in the United Kingdom / Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien -- Economic insecurity and public support for the Euro: before and during the financial crisis / Sara B. Hobolt and Patrick Leblond -- Attitudes toward immigration in good times and bad / Rafaela Dancygier and Michael Donnelly -- Ideology and retrospection in electoral responses to the Great Recession / Larry M. Bartels -- Crisis perceptions and economic voting among the rich and the poor: the United Kingdom and Germany / Raymond M. Duch and Iñaki Sagarzazu -- The electoral impact of the crisis on the French working class: more to the right? / Nonna Mayer -- The political consequences of the economic crisis in Europe: electoral punishment and popular protest / Hanspeter Kriesi -- An end to patience?: the Great Recession and economic protest in Eastern Europe / Mark R. Beissinger and Gwendolyn Sasse.

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