[PDF] A Democratic Disconnect Looking At Age Period And Cohort Effects In Support For Democracy eBook

Author : Rosalie Nadeau
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File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2018
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"In two widely discussed articles published in the Journal of Democracy over the last two years, Foa and Mounk (2016, 2017) argue that mass rates of support for democracy have been decreasing across Western democracies, pointing to a general but also a generational decline: this "democratic disconnect" is most visible among the youngest generations. This thesis investigates whether such a decline is really happening across consolidated democracies, using multilevel models to distinguish between age, period, and cohort effects. It also seeks to go beyond overt support for democracy by disaggregating that concept into different components: opposition to non-democratic rule, support for participatory democracy, and support for liberal democracy. We find no evidence of a cross-country generational or period decline in support for democracy, refuting Foa and Mounk's alarming claims; in some countries, however, there are signs of a period decline in support for democracy. Additionally, we find no clear evidence of period or generational change in different conceptions of democracy, which goes against more optimistic perspectives on the younger generations' political attitudes." --

Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139496166

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Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on 'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies worldwide, challenging the pervasive claim that most established democracies have experienced a steadily rising tide of political disaffection during the third-wave era. The book diagnoses the reasons behind the democratic deficit, including demand (rising public aspirations for democracy), information (negative news about government) and supply (the performance and structure of democratic regimes). Finally, Norris examines the consequences for active citizenship, for governance and, ultimately, for democratization. This book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of comparative politics, public opinion, political culture, political behavior, democratic governance, political psychology, political communications, public policymaking, comparative sociology, cross-national survey analysis and the dynamics of the democratization process.

Author : Angel Rabasa
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833034022

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The military is one of the few institutions that cut across the divides of Indonesian society. As it continues to play a critical part in determining Indonesia's future, the military itself is undergoing profound change. The authors of this book examine the role of the military in politics and society since the fall of President Suharto in 1998. They present several strategic scenarios for Indonesia, which have important implications for U.S.-Indonesian relations, and propose goals for Indonesian military reform and elements of a U.S. engagement policy.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900451404X

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“We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society. The new state that we are building is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state”, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban famously said in 2014, exemplifying a broader trend taking place in Central Europe. Why would the countries that were praised as democratization and Europeanization success stories take an illiberal turn? This volume explores changing values and attitudes to explain events that took place in the aftermath of the financial and migration crisis in six Central European countries: Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Author : Bart Cammaerts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137540214

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This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics and civic cultures, and a wide range of methods are used to analyse and assess youth participation and attitudes.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0197763839

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"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--

Author : Jeffrey K. Staton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316516733

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This book argues that independent courts can defend democracy by encouraging political elites to more prudently exercise their powers.

Author : Jamila Michener
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108245323

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Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, others are tight-fisted and punitive. In Fragmented Democracy, Jamila Michener demonstrates the consequences of such disparities for democratic citizenship. Unpacking how federalism transforms Medicaid beneficiaries' interpretations of government and structures their participation in politics, the book examines American democracy from the vantage point(s) of those who are living in or near poverty, (disproportionately) Black or Latino, and reliant on a federated government for vital resources.

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521855266

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This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.

Author : Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199323658

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Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and cultural factors, but that digital media is consistently one of the most important sufficient and necessary conditions for explaining both the fragility of regimes and the success of social movements. This book looks at not only the unexpected evolution of events during the Arab Spring, but the deeper history of creative digital activism throughout the region.