The myth of mob rule : violent crime and democratic politics / Lisa L. Miller.
Drawing on a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, this book explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Reversing much of the conventional wisdom, the analysis finds that serious violence and public and political...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Urunga tuihono: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | Drawing on a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, this book explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Reversing much of the conventional wisdom, the analysis finds that serious violence and public and political attention to it are highly correlated and that the United States has high levels of both crime and punishment, in part, because it suffers from a democratic deficit, rather than a surplus, in the production of fundamental collective goods, including risk of violence. |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) |
| Hōputu: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190228717 0190228725 9780190228712 9780190228729 |