How People View Democracy

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9061-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: A Journal of Democracy Book

This volume gathers essays by leading scholars and principals of regional public-opinion surveys, known as “barometers,” which are making possible the first systematic, worldwide study of how citizens think about democracy and weigh it against other forms of government.

Originally published in the Journal of Democracy, the essays cover topics from Arab opinion about democracy to the nostalgia for authoritarianism found in East Asia. Other contributions shed light on the rise of populism in Latin America, and explain why postcommunist regimes in Europe have won broad public support. Additional chapters invite reflection on the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of “expressive” social values, and ask whether political or economic factors more decisively influence how people evaluate democracy in their own countries.

No serious student of democracy can afford to be without this book. It offers an original and comprehensive view of what citizens around the world think as democracy’s global “third wave” prepares to enter its fourth and perhaps most challenging decade.

Contributors: Michael Bratton, Yu-tzung Chang, Yun-han Chu, Russell J. Dalton, Peter R. deSouza, Ronald Inglehart, Amaney Jamal, Willy Jou, Marta Lagos, Suhas Palshikar, Chong-Min Park, Richard Rose, Mitchell A. Seligson, Sandeep Shastri, Doh C. Shin, Mark Tessler, Christian Welzel, Yogendra Yadav

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diamond, Larry

Plattner, Marc F

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. How People Understand Democracy
Chapter 2. The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization
Chapter 3. Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy
Chapter 4. Learning to Support New Regimes in Europe
Chapter 5. Latin America's Diversity of Views
Chapter 6. Authoritarian Nostalgia in Asia
Chapter 7. The Fragility of Support for Democracy in South Asia
Chapter 8. Formal versus Informal Institutions in Africa
Chapter 9. The "Alternation Effect" in Africa
Chapter 10. The Arab Aspiration for Democracy
Chapter 11. How Muslims in Central Asia View Democracy
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Plattner, Marc F
Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Plattner and Diamond are coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.

Diamond, Larry
Larry Diamond is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. They serve as codirectors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.