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A logic of expressive choice /

"Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of participation"--Why individuals cast ballots when they have virtually no effect on electoral...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuessler, Alexander A., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2000]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Expressive Choice and Mass Participation. 1.1. Approaching Noninstrumental Choice. 1.2. Methodological, But Not Ontological, Individualism
  • part 1. Theory. Ch. 2. A Jukebox Model of Participation. 2.1. Claiming Popularity. 2.2. Horizontal Shielding of Fellow Participants. 2.3. Horizontal Shielding of Competing Producers. 2.4. Imposing a Cost of Participation. 2.5. Idiom versus Motivation. Ch. 3. Theoretical Frame 1: Choice and Doing. 3.1. Turnout. 3.2. Choice. 3.3. Responses to the Participation Paradox. 3.4. Preliminary Conclusion. Ch. 4. Theoretical Frame 2: Choice and Being. 4.1. Expressive Motivation and Symbolic Utility. 4.2. Operationalizing Expressive Choice
  • part 2. Analysis.