The Question(s) of Political Knowledge

Barabas, Jason; Jerit, Jennifer; Pollock, William; Rainey, Carlisle

doi:10.1017/s0003055414000392

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“…These questions reflect what Barabas et al. (:841) refer to as “general knowledge” and “static facts” rather than “policy‐specific” or “surveillance facts,” that is, specific political events that happen to be salient in the news media at that time. I use principal components factor analysis to construct this measure (eigenvalue = 6.95, variance explained = 26.7 percent), rescaling it to range between 0 and 1.…”

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Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality

Macdonald

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective Why, despite positive feelings toward the poor and working classes, relative to the rich and big business, has American public support for redistribution failed to appreciably increase during an era of high, and rising, income inequality? Methods I argue that this puzzling disconnect is due, in part, to a lack of general political knowledge. Using survey data from the 2012 American National Election Study, I test how political knowledge conditions the relationship between people's economic class group attitudes and their support for redistribution. Results People with low (high) levels of political knowledge weakly (strongly) connect their class attitudes with support for redistributive spending and progressive taxation. Data from four ANES panel studies show that this does not result from the less knowledgeable holding weak “nonattitudes” toward these class groups. Rather, consistent with Converse's classic work, I attribute this to less knowledgeable individuals lacking awareness about how redistributive policies benefit different social groups. Conclusion These findings help us to better understand an important puzzle in American politics: why a mass public that purports to favor the poor and working classes over the economic elite has not turned more strongly in favor of redistribution during an era of historic inequality.

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Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality

Macdonald

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Quando sofisticados, os cidadãos tendem a ter crenças bem definidas e são mais propensos a expressar as preferências consistentes com suas predisposições (ZALLER, 1992). São eles que mais se aproximam de um "voto correto" LUSKIN, 1990;BARABAS et al, 2014), não se limitando às características inatas de uma parte da população, como teorias clássicas desenhavam. Estão presentes nos atributos individuais, a habilidade e a motivação que influenciam na capacidade de entender e lidar com a política.…”

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“…Pessoas com maior interesse em política buscam mais informações e, assim, possuem maior sofisticação (LUSKIN, 1990;BARABAS et. al., 2014).…”

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Educação e conhecimento político: duas faces de uma mesma moeda ou moedas diferentes?

Vidigal

Filho

2017

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Resumo: O papel da educação formal na sofisticação política dos indivíduos é alvo de amplo debate. Entretanto, a educação, principalmente o ensino superior, fornece ferramentas para o entendimento sobre política, socializa valores cívicos e cria contatos sociais importantes para o acesso à informação, que são essenciais para a construção de um cidadão sofisticado. Utilizandose do ESEB 2010 e 2014, avaliamos tanto a existência de efeito de cada grau de educação formal sobre o conhecimento factual de assuntos políticos. A partir dos resultados, afirmamos que a escolaridade não deve ser tratada de forma linear, já que o ensino superior aparece como divisor de águas na naturalização do mundo político, e, portanto, educação deve ser tratada através de categorias dicotômicas que represente cada grau educacional.Palavras-chave: Educação. Conhecimento político. Democracia. Ensino Superior. Education and political knowledge: two sides of the same coin or different currencies?Abstract: The role of formal education in political sophistication of individuals is subject to wide discussion. However, education, especially higher education, provides tools for understanding politics, socializes civic values and creates important social contacts for access to information, which are essential for building a sophisticated citizen. Using the ESEB 2010 and 2014, we evaluated both the existence of effect of each degree of formal education on factual knowledge of political affairs. The results show that education should not be treated in a linear fashion, as the higher education appears as a watershed in the naturalization of the political world, and therefore education should be treated through dichotomous categories representing each educational grade.

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“…Nevertheless, there are authors who examined the relationship between these categories and they derived a certain connection between them. The results of specific empirical analyze show that where political information is available, the level of political knowledge increases (12). As a result the accumulation of political knowledge contributes to the proper analysis of the political information.…”

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“…A more thorough analysis of political knowledge take into account 3/ additional factors influencing it as gender, age, education, access to information and others. (12) CONCLUSION Political knowledge is a concept related to the theory of democracy. The notion is used in the behavioral approach in the political science.…”

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Political knowledge: Theoretical formulations and practical implementation

Pastarmadzhieva¹

2015

TJS

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Political knowledge is a key concept in the theory of political culture. Political culture reflects the political values in the society, modifies the political system and is modified by the latter. This element of political culture which defines the civic values and behavior and is an object which can be defined is the political knowledge. The democracy needs competent citizens and requires a certain level of knowledge on political matters -theoretical knowledge and knowledge about current political leaders and events. The purpose of this paper is to systematize theoretical formulations concerning political knowledge and the approaches for its empirical study. In this sense the main questions of the current work are: 1/ why the political knowledge is significant?; 2/ what is the definition of "political knowledge"?; 3/ how the political knowledge is studied empirically? The main tasks of the study are as follows: 1/ theoretical examination of sources on political knowledge; 2/ summary of suggested definitions; 3/ comparison of "political knowledge" with similar or related categories; 4/ examination of empirical studies on political knowledge. The main methods used are comparative approach and analysis of the content.

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The Question(s) of Political Knowledge

Cited by 209 publications

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Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality

Class Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Support for Redistribution in an Era of Inequality

Educação e conhecimento político: duas faces de uma mesma moeda ou moedas diferentes?

Political knowledge: Theoretical formulations and practical implementation

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