Citizens, Politics and Social Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizens, Politics and Social Communication write by R. Robert Huckfeldt. This book was released on 1995-01-27. Citizens, Politics and Social Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.
Citizens, politics and social communications
Citizens, politics and social communications - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizens, politics and social communications write by Robert Huckfeldt. This book was released on 1999. Citizens, politics and social communications available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Media and Political Engagement
Media and Political Engagement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media and Political Engagement write by Peter Dahlgren. This book was released on 2009-02-23. Media and Political Engagement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the media's role in shaping civic engagement and enhancing political engagement.
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen write by Sean Richey. This book was released on 2013-11-26. The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why people vote, how NGO’s become successful in developing nations, and much more. Yet an in-depth analysis of the social basis of the rationality is missing. To fill this void, The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen provides the first empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. Through new lab experiments and survey data, this book shows that decision-making in groups promotes more rational choices and better citizenship. Thus, advice and learning derived from social network contacts are shown to be the basis of decision-making for the rational citizen.
The Social Citizen
The Social Citizen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Citizen write by Betsy Sinclair. This book was released on 2012-12-10. The Social Citizen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on one’s political decisions. Drawing upon data from settings as diverse as South Los Angeles and Chicago’s wealthy North Shore, Betsy Sinclair shows that social networks do not merely inform citizen’s behavior, they can—and do—have the power to change it. From the decision to donate money to a campaign or vote for a particular candidate to declaring oneself a Democrat or Republican, basic political acts are surprisingly subject to social pressures. When members of a social network express a particular political opinion or belief, Sinclair shows, others notice and conform, particularly if their conformity is likely to be highly visible. We are not just social animals, but social citizens whose political choices are significantly shaped by peer influence. The Social Citizen has important implications for our concept of democratic participation and will force political scientists to revise their notion of voters as socially isolated decision makers.
