Overview
- Sheds unprecedented light on pathologies of democratic frustration in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa
- Reveals new thought-provoking insights on the true nature of contemporary democratic crises
- Focuses on the general population and on young people
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology (PSPP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
At a time of widespread disillusion, citizens keep telling us how “frustrated” they feel with their democracies. However, whilst scholars and commentators alike have heard that complain millions of times, we may not have taken it as seriously as we should. The author takes the concept of democratic frustration literally and puts it under an unprecedented analytical and empirical microscope. She applies insights from the psychology and political science literatures and uses a mixture of panel studies, surveys, interviews, and experiments to understand its sources, nature, dimensions, and consequences. The book sheds unprecedented light on pathologies of democratic frustration in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa with a double focus on the general population, and on young people. Doing so, it reveals new thought-provoking insights on the true nature of contemporary democratic crises, and not least on how citizens’ actual desire for democracy uniquely shapes their dissatisfaction.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pathologies of Democratic Frustration
Book Subtitle: Voters and Elections Between Desire and Dissatisfaction
Authors: Sarah Harrison
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24235-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24234-2Published: 04 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24237-3Published: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24235-9Published: 03 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-2592
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 346
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Psychology, general, European Politics, Political Sociology