Information and the Electoral Process
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Description
Nothing strikes the student of public opinion and democracy more forcefully than the paucity of information most people possess about politics. Decades of behavioral research have shown that most people know little about their elected officeholders, less about their opponents, and virtually nothing about the public issues that occupy officials from Washington to city hall. Those attitudes they express to interviewers are usually ephemeral and transient. In what sense, then, can the policies of any government be said to reflect the will of the governed when that will cannot even be said to exist
Source Publication
Information and Democratic Processes
Source Editors/Authors
John A. Ferejohn, James H. Kuklinski
Publication Date
1990
Recommended Citation
Ferejohn, John A., "Information and the Electoral Process" (1990). Faculty Chapters. 516.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/516
