Academic Journal
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy
| العنوان: | What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy |
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| المؤلفون: | MAZUMDER, SOUMYAJIT, YAN, ALAN N. |
| المصدر: | American Political Science Review ; volume 118, issue 2, page 1020-1036 ; ISSN 0003-0554 1537-5943 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| الوصف: | A majority of Americans spend a substantial amount of time at work where they have little to no say over many issues—a phenomenon that philosophers have likened to a “private government” that resembles a dictatorship. Is this because Americans are indifferent to or even prefer to work for firms that resemble dictatorships? To answer this question, we field a conjoint experiment on a nationally-representative sample of Americans to isolate public preferences over “corporate regime type.” We find that Americans prefer workplace democracy. In a second experiment, we find that most Americans support workplace democracy even after being exposed to framing emphasizing democratization’s costs. The results suggest that social scientists must look beyond public opinion to understand the lack of workplace democracy in the United States. This article forges new ground by applying a political science lens to corporate governance—a field ripe with politics but bereft of political science. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0003055423000667 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055423000667 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003055423000667 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.EB509F02 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0003055423000667 |
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