Democracy's Double-Edged Sword

How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government

Szerző: Catie Snow Bailard

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Johns Hopkins University Press

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The beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can...

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Szerző

Catie Snow Bailard

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2014

oldal

176

EAN

9781421415253

ISBN

1421415259

Enbook ID

04791969

Kiadó

Johns Hopkins University Press

Súly

258

Méretek

230 x 152 x 11

Teljes leírás

The beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media grows omnipresent, it becomes more important for political scientists and communication scholars to understand its influence on all aspects of the political process, from campaigning to governance. Catie Snow Bailard argues that the Internet - by altering the quantity and range of information available to citizens - directly influences the ability of individuals to evaluate government performance. It also affects public satisfaction with the quality of available democratic practices and helps motivate political activity and organization. Bailard originates two theories for democratization specialists to consider-mirror-holding and window-opening - which she tests using data collected from dozens of countries and two randomized field experiments. Mirror-holding explores how accessing the Internet allows citizens to see a more detailed and nuanced view of their own government's performance. Window-opening, however, enables those same citizens to glimpse how other governments perform, particularly in comparison to their own. Although the book offers a robust empirical foundation for testing the Internet's effects on democratic attitudes, Bailard ultimately concludes that access to information does not necessarily ensure that democracy will automatically flourish.

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