Understandings of democracy : origins and consequences beyond western democracies / Jie Lu and Yun-han Chu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Jie, 1977- author.

Chu, Yun-han, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Public opinion.

Democracy.

Democracy--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Understandings of Democracy' examines why democracy is in trouble in today's world, even when most people profess to love democracy. Jie Lu and Yun-han Chu argue that people hold distinct understandings of democracy, and popular understandings of democracy have critically shaped how citizens respond to authoritarian or populist practices in contemporary politics. Using large-scale comparative surveys and survey experiments from 72 societies and a national survey in the United States, this book captures how people respond when presented with the tradeoffs between the intrinsic and instrumental values of democracy, as well as the attitudinal and behavioural implications of such responses.

Contents:

Cover

Understandings of Democracy

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Crisis of Democracy and Democratic Conceptions

2. New Instruments for Popular Understandings of Democracy

3. Varying Understandings of Democracy in the Contemporary World

4. Origins of Varying Understandings of Democracy

5. Democratic Assessment Colored by Understandings of Democracy

6. Political Participation and Varying Understandings of Democracy

7. Conclusions

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lu, Jie Understandings of Democracy

ISBN:

0-19-757043-7

0-19-757042-9

OCLC:

1266201529