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Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation.

Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Chapter 2 - What is democracy? Definitions and scholarly disagreements
  • Chapter 3 - Polling the public about democracy
  • Chapter 4 - Creating and validating a typology of democratic meanings
  • Chapter 5 - The correlates of the democracy typology
  • Chapter 6 - Compromise and representation within the democracy typology
  • Chapter 7 - Support for democracy
  • Chapter 8 - Democratic norms and the democracy typology
  • Chapter 9 - Conclusion
  • Appendix - Technical details and supplementary analysis
  • References

Democracys Meanings

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      Publisher LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Published 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780472133123
      978-0472133123
      ISBN-10 0472133128
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      Democracy Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation.

      Table of Contents
      • List of figures
      • List of tables
      • Acknowledgements
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1 - Introduction
      • Chapter 2 - What is democracy? Definitions and scholarly disagreements
      • Chapter 3 - Polling the public about democracy
      • Chapter 4 - Creating and validating a typology of democratic meanings
      • Chapter 5 - The correlates of the democracy typology
      • Chapter 6 - Compromise and representation within the democracy typology
      • Chapter 7 - Support for democracy
      • Chapter 8 - Democratic norms and the democracy typology
      • Chapter 9 - Conclusion
      • Appendix - Technical details and supplementary analysis
      • References

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