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Emotions matter in politics – enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does this politics resemble politics under more serene conditions? If politicians use threatening appeals to persuade citizens, how does the public respond? Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety triggers engagement in politics in ways that are potentially both promising and damaging for democracy. Using four substantive policy areas (public health, immigration, terrorism, and climate change), the book seeks to demonstrate that anxiety affects how we consume political news, who we trust, and what politics we support. Anxiety about politics triggers coping strategies in the political world, where these strategies are often shaped by partisan agendas.

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"This is a monumental contribution that is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary American politics. The authors not only fundamentally advance academic knowledge about anxiety and public opinion but also offer critical insights into issues of the utmost importance (e.g., immigration, climate change, terrorism, etc.). The book will clearly shape future research agendas and ongoing policy discussions."
James N. Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, Illinois

"Albertson and Gadarian marshal an impressive array of evidence to demonstrate how anxiety shapes the behavior of citizens for both better and worse, how it can transcend and yet bend to partisan politics. Anxious Politics offers the most in-depth investigation into the political effects of anxiety to date and advances critical amendments to earlier scientific accounts. This is essential reading for understanding why attempts to stir up political fears can by turns promote democratic citizenship, subvert it, and fall on deaf ears."
Ted Brader, University of Michigan

"How do political communications that foster feelings of threat and insecurity influence citizens - how and what they learn, who they trust, and what policies they advocate? Anxious Politics offers a compelling set of answers to these important questions through experimental analyses that range widely across issues, context, and message form. Anyone with an interest in public opinion should read this book."
Laura Stoker, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

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Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (September 7, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 110744148X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107441484
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches

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Shana Kushner Gadarian is Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking and Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She received a PhD in Politics from Princeton University. Her research has been funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, and Russell Sage Foundation. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Communication, Perspectives on Politics, and Milbank Quarterly, among others.

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A thoughtful, well-written book

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A thoughtful, well-reasoned, and well-written account of how emotions enter into political consciousness and discourse in the United States. This book provides a meaningful advance for political science by ensuring emotion is no longer discounted in mainstream approaches to public opinion scholarship, made all the more impressive in how approachable and interesting it is to a casual reader.

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Great read for those hoping to better understand today's political battles

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I devoured this book. The authors bring together a brilliant set of experiments and theoretical explorations of the title topic, anxious politics, and also provide a guide for those hoping to manipulate and document the effect of emotions in forming opinions. It's also timely and helpful for understanding what's going on in today's political battles. A great read!

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Excellent book on how an anxious public responds to threats

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2015

At its core, this book asks how anxiety shapes political behavior. In Gadarian and Albertson's words, “We focus on three ways that citizens cope with political anxiety: (1) seek information, (2) endow trust in government, and (3) support protective public policies.” Recent work in political science suggests that anxiety encourages people to be better citizens. In contrast, Albertson and Gadarian show that anxiety often leads citizens down darker paths towards biased information-seeking (i.e., learning), a vicious cycle where citizens perceive threat so look for more threatening information (e.g., anxiety leads citizens to look for more information that portrays immigrants in a negative light, ignoring less threatening information about those same immigrants). Further, anxiety leaves citizens open to manipulation, pushing towards more protective policy solutions and the politicians that offer those policies, even if those policy solutions undercut civil liberties. These findings offer a useful corrective to the political psychology literature.

Using a wide array of experiments and survey data, the authors analyze how anxiety associated with terrorism, climate change, health, and immigration. Gadarian and Albertson deployed 7 original experiments, a noteworthy accomplishment. This book is theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated, especially in its combination of survey data and experimental data. In addition, this academic book engages with real-world politics by looking at how citizens respond to threats in a variety of contexts. Highly recommended.

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