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The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
How Political Communication in Social Networks Improves Civic Competence
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2013
Summary
Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why people vote, how NGO’s become successful in developing nations, and much more. Yet an in-depth analysis of the social basis of the rationality is missing. To fill this void, The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen provides the first empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. Through new lab experiments and survey data, this book shows that decision-making in groups promotes more rational choices and better citizenship. Thus, advice and learning derived from social network contacts are shown to be the basis of decision-making for the rational citizen.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6630-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8857-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
110
Product Type
Monograph
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1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Hierarchy, Discussion, and Rationality No access Pages 13 - 26
3 The Social Basis of Voting Correctly No access Pages 27 - 36
4 Influences on Vote Choice in Discussion Networks No access Pages 37 - 48
5 Policy Opinions and Discussion Networks No access Pages 49 - 54
6 Rational Patriotism and Social Networking No access Pages 55 - 66
7 What Promotes Political Discussion and Advocacy? No access Pages 67 - 78
8 The Electoral System and Political Discussion No access Pages 79 - 88
