On Voter Competence

Name: On Voter Competence
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ISBN: 9780195396140

ISBN-10: 0195396146

ISBN-13: 9780195396140

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Goren

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A half century of 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. Once we turn away from liberal-conservative predispositions and issue preferences, we find that nearly everyone holds genuine policy principles and uses…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.49" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144



Acknowledgments



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


References


Index