How Americans think about democracy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines how Americans think about democracy, and how presidents can shift what they deem allowable in a democracy. The first paper explores how people talk about democracy and finds that respondents mention rights and freedoms the most in their open-ended responses. Additionally, there are divisions in how people think about democracy along a variety of demographic lines, most notably by partyID: Democrats mention voting and equality more, and Republicans mention the Constitution and what should be fixed in the country. The second paper examines heterogeneity in beliefs around democracy by asking respondents about six precise democratic principles. Respondents support the democratic idea on four of the six statements similarly. However, many respondents in both parties support media censorship and allowing politicians to call their opponents disloyal. The third paper leverages two survey experiments to show that voters allow presidents of their own party to push democratic norms more than a president of the opposing party. Combined, both of these experiments show that voters are 'following the (party) leader' and underscore that many voters place partisanship above democratic health.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Aldridge, Alejandra Teresita Gimenez |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Moe, Terry M |
| Thesis advisor | Moe, Terry M |
| Thesis advisor | Grimmer, Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Jefferson, Hakeem |
| Degree committee member | Grimmer, Justin |
| Degree committee member | Jefferson, Hakeem |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alejandra Teresita Gimenez Aldridge. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jh766jq1724 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Alejandra Teresita Gimenez Aldridge
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...