Mind and Monolith: Findings from Cognitive Interviews about Government
This report explores the patterns of reasoning that average Americans bring to the topic of government.
This report explores the patterns of reasoning that average Americans bring to the topic of government. A key finding from this early qualitative research of semi-structured, one-on-one interviews, is that there the public have two primary associations when thinking about government: they either think of elected officials (the “mind” of government) or of the bureaucracy of government (government as “monolith”).