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What Americans Know About Politics What Americans Know About Politics
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The Connection Between Factual Political Knowledge and Attitudes and Behaviors The Connection Between Factual Political Knowledge and Attitudes and Behaviors
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How Factual Knowledge Affects Political Beliefs, Opinions, and Behaviors: The Traditional Model How Factual Knowledge Affects Political Beliefs, Opinions, and Behaviors: The Traditional Model
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Simplifying The Informational Requisites of Citizenship: The Use of Heuristics Simplifying The Informational Requisites of Citizenship: The Use of Heuristics
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The Role of Affect in Information Processing The Role of Affect in Information Processing
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Political Learning: The Role of Motivation Political Learning: The Role of Motivation
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What Kind of Information and Learning Matters? What Kind of Information and Learning Matters?
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Toward an Integrated Model of Civic Learning Toward an Integrated Model of Civic Learning
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References References
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14 Chapter 14 Experimental Social Psychology, Broader Contexts, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
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2 Chapter 2 The Psychology of Civic Learning
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Published:April 2009
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Abstract
Citizen knowledge is important to the democratic polity, being related to, among other things, political tolerance and efficacy, political participation, and the ability to consistently connect policy views to meaningful political evaluations. However, a large body of research concludes that citizens possess low levels of factual knowledge about government and politics. Moreover, while traditional models — grounded in the normative logic of democratic theory — suggest that political learning is an active and rational process, recent research on heuristics and affect complicates these assumptions. This chapter argues that in order to advance our understanding of political knowledge, it is necessary to integrate five principal areas of research: the traditional model, heuristic models, impression-driven models, affect-based models, and models of operative knowledge.
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