Democracy's Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters

by Keith Gaddie, Kirby Goidel, Nicholas T. Davis

Democracy's Meanings challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation. Instead, citizens have rich and substantive views about the material conditions that democracy should produce, which draw from their beliefs about equality,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472133128
• ISBN13: 9780472133123
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"