ASSESSING THE CAPACITY OF MASS ELECTORATES

By P. Converse. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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3. Samuel D. Gosling
4. Bruce V. Lewenstein
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Citations in the corpus

• Public Opinion and Affordable Housing: A Review of the Literature (2010, unknown): “For the most part, however, the public is largely uninformed about most issues (Alvarez and Brehm 2002; Converse 2000; Zaller 1992).”
• The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind (2008, background): “…Jost, 2006), a number of sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists remain skeptical about the notion that most people are “ideological” in any stable, consistent, or profound sense (Baker, 2005; Bishop, 2005; Converse, 2000; Fiorina, Abrams, & Pope, 2006; McGuire, 1999; Zaller, 1992).”
• The Public and Nanotechnology: How Citizens Make Sense of Emerging Technologies (2005, background): “Rather, their opinions will be influenced by factors other than information, such as ideological predispositions (Converse, 2000), the way mass media frame issues (Scheufele, 1999, 2000), or their levels of general scientific literacy (Miller, 1998).”
• Uses and Abuses of Ideology in Political Psychology (2020, background): “Thus, most lack the ability, motivation, and opportunity to make ideological structure possible (Converse, 2000; Fiske, Lau, & Smith, 1990; Graber, 1994; Jerit, 2009; Lane, 1962; Luskin, 1990).”
• Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “1 Moreover, familiarity with the discursive superstructure is easier to detect in the general public once survey-based measurement error is taken into account (e.g., Achen 1975, Zaller 1992; but see Converse 2000, 2006).”
• The end of the end of ideology. (2006, background): “(Menand, 2004, pp. 92–94) There is indeed widespread acceptance of what Converse (2000) felt was the " pithiest truth " about the information level of the electorate, namely that " the mean level is very low but the variance is very high " (p. 331).”