TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goren,Paul
TI  - On voter competence
T2  - Series in political psychology
SN  - 9780199979301 (ebook) :
AV  - JK1967 .G58 2013
U1  - 324.973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Voting
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195396140.001.0001
ER  -