Understandings of Democracy

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Understandings of Democracy is written by Jie Lu and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197570402 (ISBN 10) and 9780197570401 (ISBN 13).

Understandings of Democracy examines why democracy is in trouble in today's world, even when most people profess to love democracy. Jie Lu and Yun-han Chu argue that people hold distinct understandings of democracy, and popular understandings of democracy have critically shaped how citizens respond to authoritarian or populist practices in contemporary politics. Using large-scale comparative surveys and survey experiments from seventy-two societies and a national survey in the United States, this book captures how people respond when presented with the tradeoffs between the intrinsic and instrumental values of democracy, as well as the attitudinal and behavioral implications of such responses.