Popular Efficacy in the Democratic Era : a Reexamination of Electoral Accountability in the United States, 1828-2000.
Social scientists have long criticized American voters for being ""unsophisticated"" in the way they acquire and use political information. The low level of political sophistication leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by political ""elites, "" whose sway ov...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Summary: | Social scientists have long criticized American voters for being ""unsophisticated"" in the way they acquire and use political information. The low level of political sophistication leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by political ""elites, "" whose sway over voters is deemed incontrovertible and often decisive. In this book, Peter Nardulli challenges the conventional wisdom that citizens are ""manageable fools, "" with little capacity to exercise independent judgment in the voting booth. Rather, he argues, voters are eminently capable of playing an efficacious role in democratic politics an. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780691122854 0691122857 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |