Recent events in America show that voters are increasingly the victim of misinformation, especially over issues such as President Obama’s birth certificate and the Affordable Care Act. Here, Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein show that misinformation is rife in America, and propose a number of smaller remedies to at least help improve voter literacy and counter ignorance
Do ballot initiatives help to improve people’s knowledge about politics? In new research which uses ...
PublishedThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the D...
Are voters competent citizens? Existing evidence suggests that voters are both hopeless and surprisi...
Recent events in America show that voters are increasingly the victim of misinformation, especially ...
Democracy is intended to be rule by the people. But all too often, the people have all too little un...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112231/1/jcom12165.pd
American voters are shockingly ignorant about politics. Not only do they not know basic facts about ...
A common saying is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but is this true in politics as in ...
Examined Americans' perceptions of the reliability of information in the election environment, in li...
What impact does inaccurate information have on political campaigning? Outlining the results of thre...
When people vote, does their preferred candidate represent the policies that are best for them? Not ...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Do ballot initiatives help to improve people’s knowledge about politics? In new research which uses ...
PublishedThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the D...
Are voters competent citizens? Existing evidence suggests that voters are both hopeless and surprisi...
Recent events in America show that voters are increasingly the victim of misinformation, especially ...
Democracy is intended to be rule by the people. But all too often, the people have all too little un...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112231/1/jcom12165.pd
American voters are shockingly ignorant about politics. Not only do they not know basic facts about ...
A common saying is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but is this true in politics as in ...
Examined Americans' perceptions of the reliability of information in the election environment, in li...
What impact does inaccurate information have on political campaigning? Outlining the results of thre...
When people vote, does their preferred candidate represent the policies that are best for them? Not ...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Public opinion research has shown that voters accept many falsehoods about politics. This observatio...
Do ballot initiatives help to improve people’s knowledge about politics? In new research which uses ...
PublishedThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the D...
Are voters competent citizens? Existing evidence suggests that voters are both hopeless and surprisi...