ISBN:
9781107068872
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
Parallel Title:
Print version Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens : Are Electorates Self-Educating?
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book addresses opinion leadership in democratic politics as a process whereby individuals send and receive information through their informally based networks of political communication
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Origins and acknowledgments; 1 Experts, activists, and self-educating electorates ; High hopes and realistic concerns; Political expertise in the corridors of everyday life; The civic capacity of voters and electorates; Expertise, knowledge, and self-educating electorates; Contextual constraints on network construction; Consequences of network diversity; Limitations on influence; Individual, aggregate, and dynamic implications; Expertise, motivation, and communication
Description / Table of Contents:
Sources and consequences of motivationImplications and conclusion; 2 The imperatives of interdependence ; Moving beyond individual observations; Opinion leadership, interdependence, and density dependence; Interdependence and structures of indeterminacy; Networks at the intersection between demand and supply; Interdependence and political complexity; Observational strategies for studying interdependent actors; Path-breaking contributions; Network surveys; A roadmap for the analysis; The small group experiments; An outline of the experimental studies; Summary and implications
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Experts, activists, and the social communication of political expertise I. Recognizing expertise: do citizens know it when they see it? ; II. Discussion as delegation: aggregate implications ; 4 Unanimity, discord, and opportunities for opinion leadership ; I. The role of opinion variance within communication networks ; II. Opinion leaders and controversy - moths and flames ; 5 Informational asymmetries among voters ; Social communication and information costs; Sources and consequences of uncertainty; Experimental design; The underlying spatial voting model
Description / Table of Contents:
Obtaining information on candidates' positionsSummary of procedure; The cost and value of individually obtained information; Criteria for selecting informants; The reliability of expert advice; Coping with advice from suspect sources; Cross-pressures and the implications for correct voting; The experiment and the real world; Implications and conclusions; Chapter 5 appendix; 1. Description of subjects ; 2. Evidence regarding strategy evolution during the experiment ; 3. Instructions to participants ; 6 Expertise and bias in political communication networks ; Experts, bias, and opinion leaders
Description / Table of Contents:
The costs of communicationThe experimental framework; The experimental procedure; Contextual contingencies operating on political centrality; Who receives the most requests for information?; Non-directional centrality; What are the criteria that individuals use in selecting informants?; Aggregate consequences of individual choice criteria; Symmetric distributions; Asymmetric preferences; Asymmetric information; Patterns of communication among the agents; Dynamical implications of contextual variation; How accurate is the communicated information?; Implications and conclusions
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 appendix
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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