Envy in Politics (eBook)

Gwyneth H. McClendon (Autor)

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2018
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8981-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon contends that if we want to understand these and other forms of puzzling political behavior, we should pay attention to envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration--all manifestations of our desire to maintain or enhance our status within groups. Drawing together insights from political philosophy, behavioral economics, psychology, and anthropology, McClendon explores how and under what conditions status motivations influence politics. Through surveys, case studies, interviews, and an experiment, McClendon argues that when concerns about in-group status are unmanaged by social conventions or are explicitly primed by elites, status motivations can become drivers of public opinion and political participation. McClendon focuses on the United States and South Africa-two countries that provide tough tests for her arguments while also demonstrating that the arguments apply in different contexts. From debates over redistribution to the mobilization of collective action, Envy in Politics presents the first theoretical and empirical investigation of the connection between status motivations and political behavior.

Autor

Gwyneth H. McClendon is an assistant professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus., 22 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Admiration • African Americans • Afrobarometer • Altruism • amour-propre • Attitude (Psychology) • authoritarianism • Behavioral Economics • beneficiary • bureaucrat • Cambridge University Press • Collective Action • comparative politics • Competition • Consideration • conspicuous consumption • contentious politics • Convention (norm) • disadvantage • distributive justice • Dummy variable (statistics) • Economic Inequality • Economics • economist • Elite • Ernst Fehr • estimation • ethnic group • Ethnic Violence • Explanation • family income • Field Experiment • Fiscal Space • Governance • Government • Harvard University Press • Household • Household income • human behavior • Identity (social science) • implementation • income • inequity aversion • Insurgency • interdependence • James M. Jasper • John Rawls • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology • mass politics • Measurement • Motivation • Multiculturalism • Oxford University Press • Participation (decision making) • percentage • Personality psychology • Political Party • Political Psychology • Political Science • Political System • Politician • Politics • Poverty • poverty reduction • Princeton University • Probability • Prospect Theory • Psychology • Public Expenditure • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Quarterly Journal of Economics • Reference Group • Relative Deprivation • resentment • Respondent • Routledge • Schadenfreude • Scholarship • self-esteem • Self-Interest • Self-report study • Shame • social comparison theory • Social Dominance Orientation • Social Inequality • Social Movement • Social preferences • Social Psychology • Social Science • Social Status • Social Theory • Society • Suggestion • Tax • Voter turnout • Voting Behavior • Wealth • Woodrow Wilson • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8981-2 / 1400889812
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8981-5 / 9781400889815