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The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

Friedman, Jeffrey
Friedman, Shterna

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 1138118354
ISBN13: 9781138118355
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2017
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse's The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics (1964) established the U.S. public's startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse's long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars, including Converse himself, to reflect on Converse's findings after nearly half a century of further research. Some chapters update findings on public ignorance. Others outline relevant research agendas not only in public-opinion and voter-behavior studies, but in American political development, state theory, and normative theory. Three chapters grapple with whether voter ignorance is rational. Several chapters consider the implications of Converse's findings for the democratic ideal of a well-informed public; others focus on the political elite, who are better informed but quite possibly more dogmatic than members of the general public. Contributors include Scott Althaus, Stephen Earl Bennett, Philip E. Converse, Samuel DeCanio, James S. Fishkin, Jeffrey Friedman, Doris A. Graber, Russell Hardin, Donald Kinder, Arthur Lupia, Samuel L. Popkin, Ilya Somin, and Gregory W. Wawro.

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