T. K. Ahn

Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Are Electorates Self-Educating?

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses opinion leadership in democratic politics as a process whereby individuals send and receive information through their informally based networks of political communication. The analyses are based on a series of small group experiments, conducted by the authors, which build on accumulated evidence from more than seventy years of survey data regarding political communication among interdependent actors. The various experimental designs provide an opportunity to assess the nature of the communication process, both in terms of increasing citizen expertise as well as in terms of communicating political biases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316164051
• Artikelnr.: 52967696

Autorenporträt

T. K. Ahn is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Seoul National University. His work has been published in a number of journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and the Journal of Economy Psychology. He has received the Paul Lazarsfeld Award from the American Political Science Association for the best paper on political communication. He received his PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Experts
activists
and self-educating electorates T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt and John Barry Ryan; 2. The imperatives of interdependence T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt and John Barry Ryan; 3. Experts
activists
and the social communication of political expertise T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt
Jeanette Mendez
Tracy Osborn and John Barry Ryan; 4. Unanimity
discord
and opportunities for opinion leadership T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt
Jeanette Mendez and John Barry Ryan; 5. Informational asymmetries among voters T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt and John Barry Ryan; 6. Expertise and bias in political communication networks T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt
Alexander K. Mayer and John Barry Ryan; 7. Interdependence
communication
and calculation T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt and John Barry Ryan; 8. Partisanship and the efficacy of social communication in constrained environments John Barry Ryan; 9. Noise
bias
and expertise: the dynamics of becoming informed Robert Huckfeldt
Matthew Pietryka and Jack Reilly; 10. Opinion leaders
expertise
and the complex dynamics of political communication Robert Huckfeldt
Matthew Pietryka and Jack Reilly; 11. Experts
activists
and democratic prospects T. K. Ahn
Robert Huckfeldt and John Barry Ryan.