Citizenship in Hard Times Goodman Sara Wallace
Citizenship in Hard Times Goodman Sara Wallace What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman…
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Citizenship in Hard Times Goodman Sara Wallace
What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy as partisans, interpreting civic obligation through a partisan lens that is shaped by their country's political institutions. This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany.
Employing novel survey experiments in a cross-national research design, Citizenship in Hard Times presents the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of citizenship norms in the face of democratic threat. This divided, partisan citizenship makes democratic problems worse by eroding the national unity required for democratic stability. In showing partisan citizens are not a reliable bulwark against democratic backsliding, Goodman identifies a key vulnerability in the mass