Stealth Democracy Americans' Beliefs about How Government Should Work

Name: Stealth Democracy Americans' Beliefs about How Government Should Work
Price: 5.5 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521009867

ISBN-10: 0521009863

ISBN-13: 9780521009867

Edition: 2002

Authors: John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

List price: $31.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $24.73

Marketplace

5 new & used from $5.50

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English




The Benefits of Studying the Processes People Want



Policy space and American politics



Process space: an introduction



Using process space to explain features of American politics



The Processes People Want



Attitudes toward specific processes



Public assessments of people and politicians



Americans' desire for stealth democracy



Should People Be Given the Processes They Want?



Popular deliberation and group involvement in theory



The realities of popular deliberation and group involvement



Improving government and people's attitudes toward it