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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| 520 | 3 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
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| adam_text | What
Americans
Know about
Politics
and
Why It
Matters
Michael X Delli Carpini
and
Scott Keeter
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
Contents
Preface ix
INTRODUCTION Political Knowledge, Political Power, and the
Democratic Citizen 1
CHAPTER ONE From Democratic Theory to Democratic Practice:
The Case for an Informed Citizenry 22
CHAPTER TWO What Americans Know about Politics 62
CHAPTER THREE Stability and Change in Political Knowledge 105
CHAPTER FOUR Who s Informed? Individual, Group, and Collective
Patterns of Political Knowledge 135
CHAPTER FIVE Explaining Political Knowledge 178
CHAPTER six The Consequences of Political Knowledge
and Ignorance 218
CHAPTER SEVEN Informing the Public s Discretion 268
APPENDIX ONE Overview of Data Sources 291
APPENDIX TWO The Conceptualization and Measurement
of Political Knowledge 294
APPENDIX THREE Knowledge over Time 307
APPENDIX FOUR Details of the Structural Analysis Used
in Chapter 4 329
APPENDIX FIVE Methodology of the Analysis of Information s
Impact on Opinion in Chapter 6 334
Notes 337
Bibliography 367
Index 387
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