Adam Seth Levine is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He has published in a variety of outlets such as the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Review of Behavioral Economics, and Political Communication. His work has won numerous awards, including the 2011 E. E. Schattschneider Prize. This prize is the highest dissertation award in the field of American government and is given annually by the American Political Science Association.
Why economic insecurity spurs so little collective political actionAmericans 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 doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, American Insecurity sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding these issues is actually self-undermining. By their nature, the very arguments intended to mobilize individuals-asking them to devote money or time to politics-remind citizens of their economic fears and personal constraints, leading to undermobilization and nonparticipation.Adam Seth Levine explains why the set of people who become politically active on financial insecurity issues is therefore quite narrow. When money is needed, only those who care about the issues but are not personally affected become involved. When time is needed, participation is limited to those not personally affected or those who are personally affected but outside of the labor force with time to spare. The latter explains why it is relatively easy to mobilize retirees on topics that reflect personal financial concerns, such as Social Security and Medicare. In general, however, when political representation requires a large group to make their case, economic insecurity threats are uniquely disadvantaged.Scrutinizing the foundations of political behavior, American Insecurity offers a new perspective on collective participation.
Adam Seth Levine is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. He has published in a variety of outlets such as the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Review of Behavioral Economics, and Political Communication. His work has won numerous awards, including the 2011 E. E. Schattschneider Prize. This prize is the highest dissertation award in the field of American government and is given annually by the American Political Science Association.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.1.2015 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 22 line illus. 30 tables. |
| Verlagsort | Princeton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| Schlagworte | AARP • activism • Advocacy • advocacy explosion • Advocacy group • Alliance for Retired Americans • American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network • American insecurity • American National Election Study • americans • behalf • Behavioral Economics • bureaucrat • Calculation • coefficient • Collective Action • Collective participation • College costs • Consideration • Consumer psychology • debt • Economic Inequality • Economic insecurity • Economic Policy Institute • Economic Security • economy • Education Costs • Employment • Expense • financial insecurity • financial threats • financial well-being • Funding • Fundraising • government spending • Grassroots • Health Care • health care costs • Healthcare costs • Health Care Reform • health insurance • Heidi Hartmann • Household • income • income distribution • insurance • Job Insecurity • Job Loss • Legislation • Legislator • lobbying • Mass Mobilization • Mental Accounting • middle class • mobilization • MoveOn.org • National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare • National policy • Nonparticipation • Nonprofit Organization • of education • One-Tailed Test • On the Issues • opportunity cost • organization • Participation (decision making) • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Pension • Percentage point • Personal bankruptcy • personal experience • personal finance • Personal life • Political Action • Political Action Committee • political agenda • political behavior • Political change • political communication • political debates • political inaction • Political Mobilization • political opportunity • Political organization • political organizations • Political participation • Political Party • Politics • Poverty • prescription drug • Princeton University Press • Probit Model • Protest • Provision (contracting) • Public health insurance option • public inaction • Public Interest Research Group • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Recruitment tool • Respondent • result • Retirement • Retirement age • rhetoric • Sampling (Statistics) • shortage • Social Insurance • Social Movement • solicitation • spending money • standard error • student loan • Subsidy • Tax • Textbook • Thought • Trade-off • Trade Union • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Volunteering • Voting • wage • Website • welfare • well-being • Workforce |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4008-5213-7 / 1400852137 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-5213-0 / 9781400852130 |
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