Do Facts Matter?: Information and Misinformation in American Politics
- ISBN-10
- 0806149426
- ISBN-13
- 9780806149424
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-20
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Authors
- Jennifer L. Hochschild, Katherine Levine Einstein
Description
In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?
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