Cortina Proximity Politics

How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55595-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cortina, Jeronimo

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Öffentliche Meinung und Umfragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).