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100 1 $aDelli Carpini, Michael X.,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85038705
245 10 $aWhat Americans know about politics and why it matters /$cMichael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 397 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-386) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Political Knowledge, Political Power, and the Democratic Citizen --$gCh. 1.$tFrom Democratic Theory to Democratic Practice: The Case for an Informed Citizenry --$gCh. 2.$tWhat Americans Know about Politics --$gCh. 3.$tStability and Change in Political Knowledge --$gCh. 4.$tWho's Informed? Individual, Group, and Collective Patterns of Political Knowledge --$gCh. 5.$tExplaining Political Knowledge --$gCh. 6.$tThe Consequences of Political Knowledge and Ignorance --$gCh. 7.$tInforming the Public's Discretion --$tAppendix One: Overview of Data Sources --$tAppendix Two: The Conceptualization and Measurement of Political Knowledge --$tAppendix Three: Knowledge over Time --$tAppendix Four: Details of the Structural Analysis Used in Chapter 4 --$tAppendix Five: Methodology of the Analysis of Information's Impact on Opinion in Chapter 6.
520 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aAnd despite dramatic changes in American society and politics, citizens appear no more or less informed today than half a century ago.
520 8 $aMichael 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.
520 8 $aThus 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.
650 0 $aPolitical participation$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109399
650 0 $aPolitics, Practical$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109552
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108984
700 1 $aKeeter, Scott.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83183858
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