Date: 2018
Type: Article
Is it simply gender? : content, format, and time in political knowledge measures
Politics & gender, 2018, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 162-185
FERRÍN, Mónica, FRAILE, Marta, GARCIA-ALBACETE, Gema, Is it simply gender? : content, format, and time in political knowledge measures, Politics & gender, 2018, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 162-185
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Theories of democracy commonly assume that citizens must have a certain degree of information and factual knowledge to be able to understand the functioning of institutions, the performance of the incumbent government, and the actions of the main political actors. Political knowledge helps people to better assess their interest as individuals and as members of groups (Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996). Moreover, governments have more incentives to be responsive when they can be held accountable, but citizens are able to hold governments accountable for their actions only when they know what governments are actually doing.
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Published online: 27 March 2018
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59984
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X1700023X
ISSN: 1743-923X; 1743-9248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keyword(s): News consumption gaps Media Women Competence Europe Spain Road Men
Sponsorship and Funder information:
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CSO2012-32009, CSO2016-75090-R] Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas (CIS)
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