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Gershkoff, Amy R.

How issue interest can rescue the American public.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How issue interest can rescue the American public.
Author:	Gershkoff, Amy R.
Description:	274 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Larry Bartels.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1509.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3214562
ISBN:	9780542647925

How issue interest can rescue the American public.
Gershkoff, Amy R.

How issue interest can rescue the American public. - 274 p.

Adviser: Larry Bartels.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2006.

Converse proposed an "issue publics" view which could neutralize such claims, but it is underutilized, largely because we have no satisfactory method to measure issue publics or issue importance. The survey research literature suggests three methodologies for measuring individual-level issue importance: interest imputation, closed-ended importance questions, and an open-ended question about the most important problem facing the nation; unfortunately, there are major drawbacks to each of these methods.

ISBN: 9780542647925Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

How issue interest can rescue the American public.
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520 # $a Herein I propose a new methodology for empirically measuring issue publics called the Counting Open-Ended Responses (COR) Method, which involves discerning the salience of each issue to each respondent by content-analyzing their responses to a series of open-ended questions from the American National Election Studies.
520 # $a The American politics literature is currently dominated by views of the electorate as predominantly composed of ignorant citizens with "non-attitudes" who give inconsistent responses to survey questions and cannot use the information they have to make rational political judgments. While there have been critiques of this view, they have proved unable to neutralize the claim that citizens are largely politically ignorant.
520 # $a These findings have implications for survey researchers, scholars of public opinion and political behavior, and political campaign strategists.
520 # $a These results indicate that the average American voter is more competent than previous work suggests, and that political competence is distributed much more broadly throughout the electorate than other scholars have found. Rather than the distribution of political competence closely mirroring that of socio-economic resources, as most previous work suggests, I find that political competence is largely unrelated to socio-economic status, and that most voters, regardless of economic resources or educational background, are capable of reasoned political judgments.
520 # $a Using this technique to take issue importance into account, I examine more than twenty-five years of public opinion data. I find that for the issues they find important, the average voter is knowledgeable, has consistent opinions, and uses that knowledge and those opinions to vote rationally.
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