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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,
fairness, and justice. Using survey data collected over several
years, the authors construct a typology of views about democracy.
Procedural views of democracy take a minimalistic quality. While
voting and fair treatment are important to this vision of
democracy, ideas about equality are mostly limited to civil
liberties. In contrast, social views of democracy incorporate both
civil and economic equality; according to people with these views,
democracy ought to meet the basic social and material needs of
citizens. Complementing these two groups are moderate and
indifferent views about democracy. While moderate views sit
somewhere in between procedural and social perspectives regarding
the role of democracy in producing social and economic equality,
indifferent views of democracy involve disaffection toward it. For
a small group of apathetic citizens, democracy is an ambiguous and
ill-defined concept.
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