Joshua N. Zingher

Political choice in a polarized america: how elite polarization shapes mass behavior - Joshua N. Zingher

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• What motivates citizens to support one party over the other
• Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions
• Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team sport--the specifics do not matter as long as you know what side your team is on
• Answering these questions requires us to think about how much the average American knows about politics
• Many scholars of public opinion believe that the majority of Americans only pay passing attention to politics
• Thus the electorate's apparent lack of political competence presents a direct challenge to normative theories of democracy
• How are citizens supposed to exert control over the government if they have no idea what is going on
• In Political Choice in a Polarized America
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• Zingher argues that these fears are overblown

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