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The American public's cynical attitude toward politics is much discussed, but what do Americans really know about politics? Two political scientists provide a detailed examination of who knows what, how much, and why it matters in American politics. Employing survey data of Americans for a nearly 50-year period and utilizing sophisticated statistical techniques, Delli Carpini (Barnard Coll.) and Keeter (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) find that, while Americans are not as knowledgeable as they should be, they are not completely ignorant of politics and that the level of political knowledge has remained virtually unchanged over 40 years. Among the authors' other major findings: women, African Americans, the poor, and the young tend to be less politically knowledgeable than the rest of the population; and people with higher levels of motivation and skills tend to be better educated about politics. This excellent study places its quantitative research in the context of thoughtful and significant discussions of democratic theory. Recommended for political science students at all levels.?Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The authors explore how Americans' levels of political knowledge have changed over the past 50 years, how such knowledge is distributed among different groups, and how it is used in political decision-making. Drawing on extensive survey data, they present compelling evidence for benefits of a politically informed citizenry--and the cost of one that is poorly and inequitably informed. 62 illustrations.
The American public's cynical attitude toward politics is much discussed, but what do Americans really know about politics? Two political scientists provide a detailed examination of who knows what, how much, and why it matters in American politics. Employing survey data of Americans for a nearly 50-year period and utilizing sophisticated statistical techniques, Delli Carpini (Barnard Coll.) and Keeter (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) find that, while Americans are not as knowledgeable as they should be, they are not completely ignorant of politics and that the level of political knowledge has remained virtually unchanged over 40 years. Among the authors' other major findings: women, African Americans, the poor, and the young tend to be less politically knowledgeable than the rest of the population; and people with higher levels of motivation and skills tend to be better educated about politics. This excellent study places its quantitative research in the context of thoughtful and significant discussions of democratic theory. Recommended for political science students at all levels.?Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The authors explore how Americans' levels of political knowledge have changed over the past 50 years, how such knowledge is distributed among different groups, and how it is used in political decision-making. Drawing on extensive survey data, they present compelling evidence for benefits of a politically informed citizenry--and the cost of one that is poorly and inequitably informed. 62 illustrations.
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civics items, lagged attention, political knowledge levels, partisan knowledge, measuring political knowledge, general political knowledge, civic input, interfactor correlations, mobilizing information, more informed citizens, internal efficacy, knowledgeable citizens, civic knowledge, knowledge index, political learning, uninformed citizens, deliberative opinion poll, discrimination parameter, knowledge items, unidimensional model, political ignorance, question wording, factual items, observed knowledge, informed citizenry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Survey Item, Survey of Political Knowledge, National Election Study, World War, First Amendment, New Deal, Soviet Union, Bill of Rights, Persian Gulf, United Nations, Fifth Amendment, George Bush, Middle East, Roper Center, Mikhail Gorbachev, Central America, Men Women, Ted Kennedy, Delli Carpini, George Shultz, James Mill, New Jersey, African Americans New!
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This book is an exploration of what Americans know-and don't know-about politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civics items, lagged attention, political knowledge levels, partisan knowledge, measuring political knowledge, general political knowledge, civic input, interfactor correlations, mobilizing information, more informed citizens, internal efficacy, knowledgeable citizens, civic knowledge, knowledge index, political learning, uninformed citizens, deliberative opinion poll, discrimination parameter, knowledge items, unidimensional model, political ignorance, question wording, factual items, observed knowledge, informed citizenry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Supreme Court, Survey Item, Survey of Political Knowledge, National Election Study, World War, First Amendment, New Deal, Soviet Union, Bill of Rights, Persian Gulf, United Nations, Fifth Amendment, George Bush, Middle East, Roper Center, Mikhail Gorbachev, Central America, Men Women, Ted Kennedy, Delli Carpini, George Shultz, James Mill, New Jersey, African Americans New!
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- Frontiers of Democratic Theory by H.S. Hs Kariel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom on page 62, and Back Matter
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Political Psychology by Kristen Renwick Monroe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Public Opinion by Susan Herbst in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics) by W. Lance Bennett on 4 pages
- Thinking about Political Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology) by James H. Kuklinski on 4 pages
- Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong by Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (Communication, Society and Politics) by Pippa Norris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Where Have All the Voters Gone? by Martin P. Wattenberg on page 93, and Back Matter
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