Facing the Challenge of Democracy : : Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation / / ed. by Benjamin Highton, Paul M. Sniderman.

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• MitwirkendeR: Aldrich, John H.,; Ansolabehere, Stephen,; Carmines, Edward G.,; Citrin, Jack,; Dilliplane, Susanna,; Ellis, Christopher,; Ensley, Michael J.,; Freeze, Melanie,; Green, Donald P.,; Hersh, Eitan,; Highton, Benjamin,; Jackman, Simon,; Jacobson, Gary C.,; Knee, Matthew R.,; Krasno, Jonathan,; Lupia, Arthur,; Magleby, David B.,; McGhee, Eric,; Mutz, Diana,; Nelson, Candice J.,; Page, Benjamin I.,; Pearson, Kathryn,; Schickler, Eric,; Sides, John,; Sniderman, Paul M.,; Stimson, James A.,; Vavreck, Lynn,; Wagner, Michael W.,; Westlye, Mark C.,; Xie, Tao,
• HerausgeberIn: Highton, Benjamin,; Sniderman, Paul M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 28 line illus. 53 tables.

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 gl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction: Facing the Challenge of Democracy
• Part I: The Political Logic of Preference Consistency
• I. How Do Political Scientists Know What Citizens Want?
• II. Purposive Mass Belief Systems concerning Foreign Policy
• III. Cosmopolitanism
• IV. Running to the Right
• V. Pathways to Conservative Identification
• Part II. Polarization and the Party System
• VI. Partisan Differences in Job Approval Ratings of George W. Bush and U.S. Senators in the States
• VII. Political Participation, Polarization, and Public Opinion
• VIII. Political Parties in the Capital Economy of Modern Campaigns
• IX. Candidates and Parties in Congressional Elections
• X. The Myth of the Independent Voter Revisited
• Part III. Participation and Representation
• XI. Who Really Votes?
• XII. Who Governs if Everyone Votes?
• XIII. The Effects of Registration Laws on Voter Turnout
• XIV. Issue Preferences, Civic Engagement, and the Transformation of American Politics
• References
• Index