Author : T. K. Ahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316165213
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics by : T. K. Ahn
Download or read book Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics written by T. K. Ahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses opinion leadership in democratic politics as a process whereby individuals send and receive information through their informally based networks of political communication. The analyses are based on a series of small group experiments, conducted by the authors, which build on accumulated evidence from more than seventy years of survey data regarding political communication among interdependent actors. The various experimental designs provide an opportunity to assess the nature of the communication process, both in terms of increasing citizen expertise as well as in terms of communicating political biases.