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- catalog abstract ""Americans often complain about the current 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, John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, employing an original national survey and focus groups, report the specific governmental procedures Americans desire. Their results are surprising. 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 most intense desire 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. In light of these findings, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12613546.
- catalog contributor b12613547.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Americans often complain about the current 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, John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, employing an original national survey and focus groups, report the specific governmental procedures Americans desire. Their results are surprising. 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and index.".
- catalog description "People's most intense desire 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. In light of these findings, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The processes people want -- Attitudes toward specific processes -- Public assessments of people and politicians -- Americans' desire for stealth democracy -- pt. 3. 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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 284 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521009863 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0521811384 (hardback)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "323/.042/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Democracy United States Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "JK1764 .H53 2002".
- catalog subject "Political participation United States Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The processes people want -- Attitudes toward specific processes -- Public assessments of people and politicians -- Americans' desire for stealth democracy -- pt. 3. 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.".
- catalog title "Stealth democracy : Americans' beliefs about how government should work / John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.".
- catalog type "text".