OUT NOW: Pathologies of Democratic Frustration by Sarah Harrison
At a time of widespread disillusion, citizens keep telling us how “frustrated” they feel with their democracies. However, whilst scholars and commentators alike have heard that complain millions of times, we may not have taken it as seriously as we should. The author takes the concept of democratic frustration literally and puts it under an unprecedented analytical and empirical microscope. She applies insights from the psychology and political science literatures and uses a mixture of panel studies, surveys, interviews, and experiments to understand its sources, nature, dimensions, and consequences. The book sheds unprecedented light on pathologies of democratic frustration in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa with a double focus on the general population, and on young people. Doing so, it reveals new thought-provoking insights on the true nature of contemporary democratic crises, and not least on how citizens’ actual desire for democracy uniquely shapes their dissatisfaction.
Special Issue “Inclusive or Exclusive Elections?: The Citizens Left Out of Democracy“. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15th February, 2021.
2020:
Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology
Bruter, M., & Harrison, S. (2020). Inside the mind of a voter: a new approach to electoral psychology. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691182896.
Appendix 1: Sample Questionnaires
Appendix 2: Examples of Qualitative Fieldwork
Appendix 3: Further Tables and Figures
Appendix 4: Country case studies
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BOOKS
Youth participation in democratic life: stories of hope and disillusion
Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah and Anstead, Nick (2016). Youth participation in democratic life: stories of hope and disillusion. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9781137540201
Mapping extreme right ideology: an empirical geography of the European extreme right
Harrison, Sarah and Bruter, Michael (2011). Mapping extreme right ideology: an empirical geography of the European extreme right. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230581012
The future of our democracies?: young party members in 6 European democracies
Bruter, Michael and Harrison, Sarah (2009) The future of our democracies?: Young party members in 6 European democracies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230219731
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Understanding the emotional act of voting
Bruter, Michael and Harrison, Sarah (2017) Understanding the emotional act of voting. Nature Human Behaviour, 1 (0024). pp. 1-3. ISSN 2397-3374
Through the polling booth curtain
Bruter, Michael and Harrison, Sarah (2016) Through the polling booth curtain. In: Blais, André, Laslier, Jean-François and van der Straeten, Karine, (eds.) Voting Experiments. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 323-333. ISBN 9783319405735
Political science research methods in action
Bruter, Michael and Lodge, Martin, eds. (2013) Political science research methods in action. ECPR Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230367753
The difficult emergence of a European people
Bruter, Michael and Harrison, Sarah (2012) The difficult emergence of a European people. In: Hayward, J and Wurzel, R, (eds.) European disunion: between sovereignty and solidarity. Palgrave studies in European Union politics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 17-31. ISBN 978-1-137-27135-8
OTHER
The UK in a changing Europe initiative
Bruter, Michael (2014) The UK in a changing Europe initiative. Economic and Social Research, London, UK.
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