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American Insecurity : Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction /
"Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often does...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Financial Threats and Self-Undermining Rhetoric; 2 Do Americans View Financial Threats as Important Political Issues?; 3 Who Mobilizes?; 4 Why Rhetoric about Economic Insecurity Can Be Self-Undermining; 5 How People Respond to Participation Requests; 6 Political Voice across Issues; 7 Self-Undermining Rhetoric in the Past and Present; Appendix A: Multivariate Models from Chapter 2; Appendix B: Analysis of the Washington D.C., Interest-Group Community; Appendix C: Multivariate Models from Chapter 5.
- Appendix D: Noncompliance in the ACSCAN Donation ExperimentAppendix E: Materials for Experiments in Chapter 5; Appendix F: Multivariate Models from Chapter 6; Appendix G: Details on Variable Coding for Multivariate Models throughout the Book; Notes; Bibliography; Index.