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Stealth democracy : = Americans' beliefs about how government should work /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stealth democracy :/ John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.
Reminder of title:	Americans' beliefs about how government should work /
Author:	Hibbing, John R.,
other author:	Theiss-Morse, Elizabeth,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Political participation - Public opinion. - United States -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613722
ISBN:	9780511613722 (ebook)

Stealth democracy : = Americans' beliefs about how government should work /
Hibbing, John R.,

Stealth democracy :Americans' beliefs about how government should work /John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. - 1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology. - Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

ISBN: 9780511613722 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1443250
Political participation
--Public opinion.--United States

LC Class. No.: JK1764 / H53 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 323/.042/0973

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