Webb, Paul (2012) Who is willing to deliberate, and how? Dissatisfied democrats, stealth democrats and populists in the UK: SEI Working Paper 131. Working Paper. Sussex European Institute, Sussex.

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Abstract

This article draws on a new survey of British citizens to test the hypothesis that there are two quite distinctive types of attitude prevalent among those who are ‘disaffected’ with politics, the ‘dissatisfied democratic’ and ‘stealth democratic’ orientations, the former being more widespread in the UK. While neither manifests a high level of trust for the political elite, the dissatisfied democratic citizen is politically interested, efficacious and desires greater political participation, while the contrary is generally true of the stealth democrat. However, although stealth democrats are unwilling to engage in most forms of participation or deliberation, they are ambiguous about direct democracy, which can be attributed to the populist nature of stealth democratic attitudes.

Item Type:	Reports and working papers (Working Paper)
Schools and Departments:	School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Politics
Subjects:	J Political Science
Depositing User:	Paul Webb
Date Deposited:	01 Nov 2012 16:34
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2012 16:34
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/41328

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