Critical citizens : global support for democratic government

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Critical citizens : global support for democratic government

edited by Pippa Norris

Oxford University Press, 1999

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and indexes

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This text analyses a series of interrelated questions. The first two are diagnostic: how far are there legitimate grounds for concern about public support for democracy world-wide? Are trends towards growing cynicism evident in the United States evident in many established and newer democracies? The second concern is analytical: what are the main political, economic, and cultural factors driving the dynamics of support for democratic government? The final questions are prescriptive: what are the consequences of this analysis and what are the implications for strengthening democratic governance? This book has brought together a group of international scholars who develop a global analysis of these issues that looks at trends in establishes and newer democracies as we approach the end of the 20th century. It also presents the results of the 1995-7 World Values Study as well as drawing on an extensive range of comparative empirical evidence. Challenging the conventional wisdom, this book concludes that accounts of a democratic "crisis" are exaggerated. By the mid-1990s most citizens world-wide shared widespread aspirations to the ideals and principles of democratic government. At the same time there remains a marked gap between evaluations of the ideal and the practice of democracy. The public in many newer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and in Latin America proved deeply critical of the performance of their governing regimes. And in many established democracies the 1980s saw a decline in public confidence in the core institutions of representative democracy including parliaments, the legal system, and political parties. The book considers the causes and consequences of the development of critical citizens. It should be useful to those interested in comparative politics, public opinion, and the dynamics of the democratization process.

目次

  • Introduction - the growth of critical citizens, Pippa Norris. Part 1 Cross-National Trends in Confidence in Governance: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, mapping political support in the 1990s - a global analysis
  • Russell J. Dalton, political support in advanced industrial democracies
  • William Mishler and Richard Rose, five years after the fall - trajectories of support for democracy in post-Communist Europe. Part 2 Testing Theories with Case-Studies: Soren Holmberg, down and down we go - political trust in Sweden
  • Dieter Fuchs, the democratic culture of Unified Germany
  • Richard Rose, Doh C. Shin, and Neil Munro, tensions between the democratic ideal and reality - South Korea. Part 3 Explanations of Trends: Kenneth Newton, social and political trust in establishes democracies
  • Ian McAllister, the economic performance of governments
  • Arthur Miller and Ola Listhaug, political performance and institutional trust
  • Pippa Norris, institutional explanations of political support
  • Ronald Inglehart, postmodernization, authority, and democracy
  • Pippa Norris, conclusions - the growth of critical citizens and its consequences.

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