Cover -- Half-title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Democratic Hopes and Fears -- The central argument -- (i) Trendless fluctuations in system support -- (ii) The importance of the democratic deficit -- (iii) Explaining the deficit -- (iv) Why does the deficit matter? -- Road map of the book -- Part I: Theoretical Framework -- Part II: Symptoms -- Part III: Diagnosis -- Part IV: Prognosis -- 2 The Conceptual Framework -- The conceptual framework of systems support -- Levels of system support -- Components of political support -- 1. National Identities -- 2. Approval of Regime Principles and Values -- 3. Evaluations of Regime Performance -- 4. Confidence in Regime Institutions -- 5. Approval of Incumbent Officeholders -- The idea of democratic deficits -- Democratic Aspirations -- Evaluations of Democratic Performance -- Cognitive Awareness of Democratic Procedures -- What is excluded from this framework? -- Partisan Identification and Membership -- Social Capital -- The Consequences of Citizen Orientations for Political Behavior -- 3 Evidence and Methods -- Evidence from the world values survey -- The selection of indicators -- Comparing regimes -- Historical Index of Democratization -- Classifying Contemporary Types of Regimes -- Polity IV -- Indicators of regime performance -- News Media Content Analysis -- Mixed methods -- Part II: Symptoms -- 4 Trends in the United States and Western Europe -- I: The debate about critical citizens in established democracies -- II: The interpretive framework: what has declined, when, and where? -- III: Longitudinal trends in the united states and western europe -- Trust in Public Officials in the U.S. Federal Government -- Institutional Confidence in the United States.

Institutional trust in western europe -- European Trust in Government -- European Trust in Parliaments -- European Trust in Political Parties -- European Satisfaction with the Performance of Democracy -- European National Pride -- Conclusions and discussion -- 5 Comparing Political Support around the World -- Global patterns of system support -- Confidence in Regime Institutions -- Evaluations of Democratic Performance -- Attitudes toward Democratic Governance and Autocratic Rule -- Democratic Values -- Strength of Nationalism -- Conclusions and discussion -- 6 Trends in Democratic Deficits -- I: Trends over time in system support -- Institutional Confidence -- Endorsement of Democratic Attitudes -- Nationalism -- II: Estimating the size and distribution of the democratic deficit -- Conclusions and discussion -- Part III: Diagnosis -- 7 Rising Aspirations? -- I: modernization theories of value change -- Testing the Core Propositions -- The Impact of Human Development -- Educational and Socioeconomic Effects -- Age Effects -- Post-Materialism and Self-Expression Values -- II: Social capital theories of democratic cultures -- Conclusions and discussion -- 8 Democratic Knowledge -- I: Theoretical perspectives on democratic knowledge -- Traditional Socialization Theories of Political Learning -- Skeptical Theories of Political Knowledge -- Relativism -- Instrumental Support for Governance -- II: Evidence about levels of democratic knowledge -- III: Awareness of the procedural characteristics of democracy -- Conclusions and discussion -- 9 Negative News -- I: Is television news to blame? -- II: Negative news and scandal coverage -- Correlating Corruption Perceptions and Democratic Satisfaction -- Trends in Public Opinion and the News Media -- Media Content Analysis, 2000-2008 -- British Public Opinion -- U.S. Public Opinion -- Conclusions.

10 Failing Performance? -- Cultural versus rational choice theories of system support -- II: Process performance -- Process Performance Indicators -- (1) Democracy: Freedom House -- (2) Good Governance -- (3) Human Rights -- Basic Correlation Results -- II: Policy performance -- III: The role of institutional structures -- Conclusions and implications -- Part IV: Prognosis -- 11 The Consequences for Citizenship, Governance, and Democratization -- Active citizenship -- Governance and voluntary compliance with the law -- Cultural theories of democratization -- Conclusions and discussion -- 12 Conclusions and Implications -- The Conventional Anxieties about Established Democracies -- Concern about a Global Democratic Recession? -- Explaining the democratic deficit -- Trendless Fluctuations in System Support -- Democratic Deficits -- The Causes of the Democratic Deficit -- The Impact of Democratic Orientations -- Technical Appendix A: Concepts and Measures -- Technical Appendix B: Countries in the Pooled World Values Survey, 1981-2007 -- Technical Appendix C: Methods -- Model A: OLS Regression Analysis -- Model B: REML Multilevel Regression Analysis -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the reasons behind the democratic deficit and analyzes the consequences for active citizenship, for governance and, ultimately, for democratization.

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