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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goren, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Series in political psychology.
Subjects:
Voting > United States.
Voting > United States > History.
Vote > États-Unis.
Vote > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Voting
United States
Politics and Government.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The indictment of the American voter
  • Policy cleavages in historical context
  • Policy attitudes and political sophistication
  • The three faces of policy voting
  • The availability of policy principles
  • The centrality of policy principles
  • The origins of policy principles
  • The electoral consequences of policy principles
  • The exoneration of the American voter?
  • Appendix: measurement of key variables.