Context and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Partisan Left-Right Knowledge

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dc.citation.firstpage1211en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleThe Journal of Politicsen_US
dc.citation.lastpage1228en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber78en_US
dc.contributor.authorFortunato, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Randolph T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorVonnahme, Gregen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-19T19:09:40Zen_US
dc.date.available2017-05-19T19:09:40Zen_US
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractWe present a theory that links variation in aggregate levels of political knowledge across countries and over time to corresponding differences in the political context in which voters become (or do not become) informed. Specifically, we argue that the level of partisan left-right knowledge in a given context ultimately depends on how useful the left-right metaphor is for organizing, simplifying, or otherwise facilitating voters’ understanding of political processes. Using survey data on the distribution of left-right knowledge in 59 different contexts (in 18 countries), our analysis reveals that voters understand the relative left-right positioning of parties to a much greater degree when these positions are important predictors of the composition of policy-making coalitions, but that variation in this knowledge does not correspond to the accuracy with which the relative left-right positions of parties predicts more narrow policy positions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFortunato, David, Stevenson, Randolph T. and Vonnahme, Greg. "Context and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Partisan Left-Right Knowledge." <i>The Journal of Politics,</i> 78, no. 4 (2016) The University of Chicago Press: 1211-1228. https://doi.org/10.1086/686689.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1086/686689en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/94300en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.subject.keywordcoalition politicsen_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical institutionsen_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical knowledgeen_US
dc.titleContext and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Partisan Left-Right Knowledgeen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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