TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goren,Paul
TI  - On voter competencePaul Goren
T2  - Series in political psychology
SN  - 9780199908691
AV  - JK1967 .O586 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Voting
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The indictment of the American voter --; Policy cleavages in historical context --; Policy attitudes and political sophistication --; The three faces of policy voting --; The availability of policy principles --; The centrality of policy principles --; The origins of policy principles --; The electoral consequences of policy principles --; The exoneration of the American voter? --; Appendix: measurement of key variables; 2; b
N2  - Research shows that most citizens are shockingly uninformed about public affairs, liberal-conservative ideologies, and the issues of the day. This has led most scholars to condemn typical American voters as politically brainless and to conclude that policy voting lies beyond their reach. 'On Voter Competence' breaks sharply from this view. According to Paul Goren, people vote based on abstract policy principles, a practice that has escaped scholars because they have searched for evidence of policy voting in the wrong places
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