Abstract
We discuss a number of issues relating to how the crisis impacts on the citizenry. More specifically, we discuss three main issues which are the focus of the three parts of the book. The first two parts deal with the ways in which citizens reacted to the crisis in two distinct political arenas, namely, the institutional arena and the extra-institutional arena, while the third part examines variations in the ways the crisis was perceived and experienced by different sectors of the population. In addition, after a brief presentation of the empirical basis of the volume, we provide a comparative overview of key indicators of perceptions, experiences, and responses to the economic crisis across the nine countries covered by the book.
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This project was funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (grant agreement no. 613237). A more detailed description as well as various related documents and outputs are available on the project’s website at http://www.livewhat.unige.ch.
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The sample size in each country is the following: 2027 in France, 2108 in Germany, 2048 in Greece, 2040 in Italy, 2014 in Poland, 2035 in Spain, 2018 in Sweden, 2046 in Switzerland, and 2022 in the UK.
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Giugni, M., Grasso, M.T. (2018). Citizens and the Crisis: Perceptions, Experiences, and Responses to the Great Recession in Nine Democracies. In: Giugni, M., Grasso, M. (eds) Citizens and the Crisis. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68960-9_1
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