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Proximity Politics - Jeronimo Cortina

Proximity Politics

How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2024
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-20532-0 (ISBN)
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Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme weather event like a hurricane or flood can encourage someone to attribute climate change to human activity. Why do we react so differently to faraway events and ones that take place on our doorsteps, and what does this reveal about our political landscape?

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world. Analyzing geocoded survey data, Jeronimo Cortina documents the crucial ways space and place influence public opinion. He demonstrates that the closer someone is to an event, social group, or policy, the likelier they are to have first-hand, specific, grounded knowledge of the subject. Conversely, distance leads to detachment, making it more likely that decontextualized or unreliable information and individual or group biases will prevail. Considering a range of case studies, from virus outbreaks to protests, Cortina unravels how spatial, emotional, temporal, social, and cultural distances affect public opinion. Bringing together quantitative and qualitative data in an accessible style, Proximity Politics shows that even in today’s interconnected world, we are still profoundly influenced by what happens next door.

Jeronimo Cortina is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Population Health Collaborative at the University of Houston. He is coeditor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (with Andrew Gelman, 2009) and New Perspectives on International Migration and Development (Columbia, 2013).

Acknowledgments
1. The Forest and the Trees
2. Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics: Zika, Ebola, and COVID-19
3. Bombs and Guns: Boston, Paris, and El Paso
4. Protests: #BlackLivesMatter
5. One Size Does Not Fit All: Attitudes Toward Immigration
6. From a Distance: Partisanship, Public Attitudes, and Geographic Proximity Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall
7. The Perfect Storm
8. The Great Drought, with Markie McBrayer
9. So What?
Appendix
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 34 b&w Illustrations, 21 tables
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-231-20532-5 / 0231205325
ISBN-13 978-0-231-20532-0 / 9780231205320
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