Everyday Democracy
Liberals, Conservatives, and Their Routine Political Lives
Everyday Democracy
Liberals, Conservatives, and Their Routine Political Lives
How the everyday habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy.
In Everyday Democracy, Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkraut study Americans’ views of several manifestations of “everyday democracy,” which they define as the attitudes, behaviors, and processes that people experience in daily life and their routine considerations of politics and community. Examples include engaging in dialogue with political opponents and giving politicians license to compromise. Ordinary political moments like these constitute much of politics, and they can lay the foundation that shapes if, when, and how crisis moments unfold.
Paying particular attention to the role of ideology in shaping how Americans emulate daily democratic ideals, this book considers such questions as: How do liberals and conservatives support different aspects of democratic practice, and are there ideological asymmetries between the two groups? If and when asymmetries emerge, what factors might explain them? The authors consider what their findings mean for the health of American democracy broadly.
256 pages | 17 halftones, 30 tables | 6 x 9
Chicago Studies in American Politics
Political Science: American Government and Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Table of Contents
Chapter One Ideology and Everyday Democracy
Chapter Two The Asymmetry of Ideological Bubbles
Chapter Three Racial Resentment and Mass Media
Chapter Four Acceptance of Compromise
Chapter Five Support for Federalism: A Test of Consistency
Chapter Six Charity and Volunteerism
Chapter Seven This Urgent Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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