POLA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Studies, John Mccain, Deindustrialization
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Why are people upset (review: high transaction costs, high conformity costs. Instead of steak-red wine, you get chicken-white wine: personal situation is bad. Dinner game: steak tasted bad: communal situation is bad. Dinner game: all the steaks are not very good (like they used to be) Stretch the analogy: bad steak, er economy: source of grievance #3- dinner tasted bad. Or, ones personal economic situation is poor: source of grievance #4- all steaks are not very goof (like they used to be) Or the economy in community is perceived as being poor. Cultural changes as a result of globalization and/or migration. Political changes as a result of some groups losing their traditional positions of influence/ power. Coates: changes to race-based hierarchy in society. Incumbent governments tend to be punished by voters when the economy is poor. The economy most everywhere in the industrialized world in 2016 was not great.
