The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Friedman, Jeffrey; Friedman, Shterna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Nature of Belief Systems brings back into print Philip E. Converse's classic 1964 paper on mass political ignorance. Converse's paper is followed by reflections on the subsequent years of research and on their empirical, normative, and research implications by leading scholars of public opinion, political psychology, American political development, and normative theory.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135755287
• Artikelnr.: 54785263

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Friedman, a visiting scholar in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. He is the author of Engineering the Financial Crisis (Penn, 2011, with Wladimir Kraus) and the editor of The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (Yale, 1996), What Caused the Financial Crisis (Penn, 2011), and Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency (Routledge, 2011). Shterna Friedman received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa. They are, respectively, the editor and managing editor of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society and the co-editors of Political Knowledge (Routledge, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Democratic Competence in Normative and Positive Theory: Neglected Implications of "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics"
Jeffrey Friedman 2. The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Philip E. Converse 3. False Starts
Dead Ends
and New Opportunities in Public-Opinion Research
Scott Althaus 4. Democratic Competence
before Converse and After
Stephen Earl Bennett 5. Mass Opinion and American Political Development
Samuel DeCanio 6. Beyond Polling Alone: The Quest for an Informed Public James S. Fishkin 7. Government by the People
for the People
Twenty-First Century Style
Doris A. Graber 8. Ignorant Democracy
Russell Hardin 9. Belief Systems Today
Donald Kinder 10. How Elitism Undermines the Study of Voter Competence
Arthur Lupia 11. The Factual Basis of "Belief Systems": A Reassessment
Samuel L. Popkin 12. Knowledge about Ignorance: New Directions in the Study of Political Information
Ilya Somin 13. The Rationalizing Public
Gregory J. Wawro 14. Democratic Theory and Electoral Reality
Philip E. Converse