Stealth democracy : Americans' beliefs about how government should work

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Stealth democracy : Americans' beliefs about how government should work

John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

(Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion)

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Americans often complain about the operation of their government, but scholars have never developed a complete picture of people's preferred type of government. In this provocative and timely book, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, employing an original national survey and focus groups, report the governmental procedures Americans desire. Contrary to the prevailing view that people want greater involvement in politics, most citizens do not care about most policies and therefore are content to turn over decision-making authority to someone else. People's wish for the political system is that decision makers be empathetic and, especially, non-self-interested, not that they be responsive and accountable to the people's largely nonexistent policy preferences or, even worse, that the people be obligated to participate directly in decision making. Hibbing and Theiss-Morse conclude by cautioning communitarians, direct democrats, social capitalists, deliberation theorists, and all those who think that greater citizen involvement is the solution to society's problems.

目次

  • Part I. The Benefits of Studying the Processes People Want: 1. Policy space and American politics
  • 2. Process space: an introduction
  • 3. Using process space to explain features of American politics
  • Part II. The Processes People Want: 4. Attitudes toward specific processes
  • 5. Public assessments of people and politicians
  • 6. Americans' desire for stealth democracy
  • Part III. Should People Be Given the Processes They Want?: 7. Popular deliberation and group involvement in theory
  • 8. The realities of popular deliberation and group involvement
  • 9. Improving government and people's attitudes toward it.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA58611116
  • ISBN
    • 9780521811385
    • 9780521009867
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, U.K.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 284 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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