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MASS AND ELITE ATTITUDES ABOUT WIRETAPPING IN CANADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND POLITICS |
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| Authors: | FLETCHER JOSEPH F. |
| Affiliation: | Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Research Associate of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto. |
| Abstract: | Evidence from a recent study of Canadian attitudes toward civilliberties indicates that the issue of wiretapping presents animportant exception to the familiar theory of democratic elitism.Ironically, the very sophistication and knowledge that leadselites to support individual rights and freedoms also makesthem more likely to support wiretapping than the Canadian populationas a whole. |
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