An edition of Facing the challenge of democracy (2011)

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explorations in the analysis of public opinion and political participation

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An edition of Facing the challenge of democracy (2011)

Facing the challenge of democracy

explorations in the analysis of public opinion and political participation

Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature. Paul Sniderman and Benjamin Highton bring together leading political scientists who offer new insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, the motivations for political partic.

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389

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Table of Contents

Introduction: facing the challenge of democracy / Paul M. Sniderman, Benjamin Highton
I. How do political scientists know what citizens want? An essay on theory and measurement / Arthur Lupia
II. Purposive mass belief systems concerning foreign policy / Benjamin I. Page, Tao Xie
III. Cosmopolitanism / Simon Jackman, Lynn Vavreck
IV. Running to the right: effects of campaign strategy on mass opinion and behavior / Diana Mutz, Susanna Dilliplane
V. Pathways to conservative identification: the politics of ideological contradiction in the United States / Christopher Ellis, James A. Stimson
VI. Partisan differences in job approval ratings of George W. Bush and U.S. senators in the states: an exploration / Gary C. Jacobson
VII. Political participation, polarization, and public opinion: activism and the merging of partisan and ideological polarization / John H. Aldrich, Melanie Freeze
VIII. Political Parties in the capital economy of modern campaigns / Jonathan Krasno
IX. Candidates and parties in congressional elections: revisiting candidate-centered conclusions in a partisan era / Eric McGhee, Kathryn Pearson
X. The myth of the independent voter revisited / David B. Magleby, Candice J. Nelson, Mark C. Westlye
XI. Who really votes? / Stephen Ansolabehere, Eitan Hersh
XII. Who governs if everyone votes? / John Sides, Eric Schickler, Jack Citrin
XIII. The effects of registration laws on voter turnout: an updated assessment / Matthew R. Knee, Donald P. Green
XIV. Issue preferences, civic engagement, and the transformation of American politics / Edward G. Carmines, Michael J. Ensley, Michael W. Wagner.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Princeton

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Dewey Decimal Class
323/.0420973
Library of Congress
JK1764 .F33 2011, JK1764.F33 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 389 p. :
Number of pages
389

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25138221M
ISBN 10
0691151113, 0691151105
ISBN 13
9780691151113, 9780691151106
LCCN
2011002780
OCLC/WorldCat
697980101

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OL16360329W

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