What Americans know about politics and why it matters /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
©1996.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1cc2kv1 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Political Knowledge, Political Power, and the Democratic Citizen
- Ch. 1. From Democratic Theory to Democratic Practice: The Case for an Informed Citizenry
- Ch. 2. What Americans Know about Politics
- Ch. 3. Stability and Change in Political Knowledge
- Ch. 4. Who's Informed? Individual, Group, and Collective Patterns of Political Knowledge
- Ch. 5. Explaining Political Knowledge
- Ch. 6. The Consequences of Political Knowledge and Ignorance
- Ch. 7. Informing the Public's Discretion
- Appendix One: Overview of Data Sources
- Appendix Two: The Conceptualization and Measurement of Political Knowledge
- Appendix Three: Knowledge over Time
- Appendix Four: Details of the Structural Analysis Used in Chapter 4
- Appendix Five: Methodology of the Analysis of Information's Impact on Opinion in Chapter 6.