TY - BOOK ID - 67212852 TI - Why bother? : rethinking participation in elections and protests AU - Aytaç, S. Erdem AU - Stokes, Susan Carol PY - 2019 SN - 9781108465946 9781108475228 9781108690416 1108465943 1108475221 110867979X 1108683843 1108690416 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political participation KW - Voter turnout KW - Voting KW - Voting research KW - Protest movements KW - Abstention KW - Political aspects KW - Political sociology KW - Political participation. KW - Voter turnout. KW - Voting research. KW - Abstention. KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67212852 AB - 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. ER -