The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics

by Lisa Lynn Miller and Lisa L. Miller

Book Overview

In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Drawing from extensive original research, her findings reverse many of the accepted causal claims in the literature, finding that countries with multi-party parliamentary systems are more responsive to mass publics than the U.S. on crime and that such responsiveness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190921684
• ISBN13: 9780190921682
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"