On voter competence /
Research shows that most citizens are shockingly uninformed about public affairs, liberal-conservative ideologies, and the issues of the day. This has led most scholars to condemn typical American voters as politically brainless and to conclude that policy voting lies beyond their reach. 'On Vo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Series in political psychology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Research shows that most citizens are shockingly uninformed about public affairs, liberal-conservative ideologies, and the issues of the day. This has led most scholars to condemn typical American voters as politically brainless and to conclude that policy voting lies beyond their reach. 'On Voter Competence' breaks sharply from this view. According to Paul Goren, people vote based on abstract policy principles, a practice that has escaped scholars because they have searched for evidence of policy voting in the wrong places. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199908691 0199908699 9780199979301 (ebook) 0199979308 (ebook) 1306224403 9781306224406 |