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Political Knowledge

Cheryl Boudreau,Arthur Lupia-2011-06-06-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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In political surveys, many citizens fail to answer, or provide incorrect answers to, fact-based questions about political figures and institutions. A common inference drawn from such failures is that citizens' poor performance on surveys reflects their incompetence in democratically meaningful contexts such as voting booths.

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In political surveys, many citizens fail to answer, or provide incorrect answers to, fact-based questions about political figures and institutions. A common inference drawn from such failures is that citizens' poor performance on surveys reflects their incompetence in democratically meaningful contexts such as voting booths.

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PoliticsVotingPolitical scienceInferenceEpistemologyPublic relationsSociologyLaw

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