Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic PoliticsIn 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