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Lädt ... Talking Politicsvon William A. Gamson
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Those who analyze public opinion have long contended that the average citizen is incapable of recounting consistently even the most rudimentary facts about current politics; that the little the average person does know is taken strictly from what the media report, with no critical reflection; and that the consequence is a polity that is ill prepared for democratic governance. And yet social movements, comprised by and large of average citizens, have been a prominent feature of the American political scene throughout American history and have experienced a resurgence. William Gamson asks, how is it that so many people become active in movements if they are so uninterested and badly informed about issues? The conclusion he reaches in this book is a striking refutation of the common wisdom about the public's inability to reason about politics. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I like the idea, but the end result is nondescript and uninteresting. The author writes that the participants build their arguments on personal experience, folk wisdom or information from news media, but he never seems the least bit interested in whether or not the arguments thus constructed have any validity at all. One of the aims stated at the outset of this book is to show that public opinion can be well-informed, but the author never makes any headway in that direction.
Although the author’s first-person observations have some methodological interest, I think there exist better books on public opinion than this one. I would recommend Collective Preferences in Democratic Society by Althaus.