TY  - GEN
T1  - What Americans know about politics and why it matters
A1  - Delli Carpini, Michael X., 1953-
A1  - Keeter, Scott
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn951623282
AB  - This book is the most comprehensive analysis ever written about the American public's factual knowledge of politics. Drawing on extensive survey data, including much that is original, two experts in public opinion and political behavior find that many citizens are remarkably well informed about the details of politics, while equally large numbers are nearly ignorant of political facts. And despite dramatic changes in American society and politics, citizens appear no more or less informed today than half a century ago.
AB  - Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter demonstrate that informed persons are more likely to participate, better able to discern their own interests, and more likely to advocate those interests through political actions. Who, then, is politically informed? The authors provide compelling evidence that whites, men, and older, financially secure citizens have substantially more knowledge about national politics than do blacks, women, young adults, and financially less-well-off citizens. Thus citizens who are most disadvantaged socially and economically are least able to redress their grievances politically. Yet the authors believe that a broader and more equitably informed populace is possible. The challenge to America, they conclude, lies in providing an environment in which the benefits of being informed are clearer, the tools for gaining information more accessible, and the opportunities to learn about politics more frequent, timely, and equitable.
OP  - 397
CN  - JK1764 .D453 1996eb
SN  - 9780300194319
SN  - 0300194315
SN  - 0300062567
SN  - 9780300062564
SN  - 0300072759
SN  - 9780300072754
KW  - Political participation : United States.
KW  - Politics, Practical : United States.
KW  - Political culture : United States.
KW  - Participation politique : États-Unis.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - United States
KW  - Politische Beteiligung
KW  - Politische Kultur
KW  - Politisches Bewusstsein
KW  - Öffentliche Meinung
KW  - USA
KW  - Politisches Verhalten
KW  - Politieke cultuur.
KW  - Kennis.
ER  -