Popular Understanding of Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20031200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doh Chull Shin (0000-0003-3645-1535, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.80 |
| OpenAlex | W2592602775 |
| ISBN | 9780190228637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
How well do people around the world understand democracy? Do they support democracy with an informed understanding of what it is? To address these questions, which have largely been overlooked in the literature on democratization, the World Values Survey and three regional barometer surveys are analyzed according to a two-dimensional notion of democratic knowledge. Their analyses reveal that a vast majority of global citizenries especially in post-authoritarian and authoritarian countries are either uninformed or misinformed about the fundamental characteristics of democracy and its alternatives. These findings contradict the popular theses that democracy is emerging as a universal value and it is also becoming the universally preferred system of government. For much of the world today, democracy represents little more than an appealing political symbol that still retains authoritarian practices
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World Values Survey · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |