{"product_id":"the-democratic-dilemma-can-citizens-learn-what-they-need-to-know-paperback-9780521585934","title":"The Democratic Dilemma; Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (Paperback) 9780521585934","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Democratic Dilemma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCan Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book clarifies the debate about citizen competence in democratic politics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArthur Lupia (Author), Mathew D. McCubbins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521585934, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 March 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages, 24 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.405 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Lupia and McCubbins competently and clearly shed light on the foundations of how citizens learn.' Political Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVoters cannot answer simple survey questions about politics. Legislators cannot recall the details of legislation. Jurors cannot comprehend legal arguments. Observations such as these are plentiful and several generations of pundits and scholars have used these observations to claim that voters, legislators, and jurors are incompetent. Are these claims correct? Do voters, jurors, and legislators who lack political information make bad decisions? In The Democratic Dilemma, Professors Arthur Lupia and Mathew McCubbins explain how citizens make decisions about complex issues. Combining insights from economics, political science, and the cognitive sciences, they seek to develop theories and experiments about learning and choice. They use these tools to identify the requirements for reasoned choice - the choice that a citizen would make if she possessed a certain (perhaps, greater) level of knowledge. The results clarify debates about voter, juror, and legislator competence and also reveal how the design of political institutions affects citizens' abilities to govern themselves effectively.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables and figures\u003cbr\u003e Series editors' preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Knowledge and the foundation of democracy\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theory: 2. How people learn\u003cbr\u003e 3. How people learn from others\u003cbr\u003e 4. What people learn from others\u003cbr\u003e 5. Delegation and democracy\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Experiments: 6. Theory, predictions and the scientific method\u003cbr\u003e 7. Laboratory experiments on information, persuasion and choice\u003cbr\u003e 8. Laboratory experiments on delegation\u003cbr\u003e 9. A survey on the conditions for persuasion\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Implications for Institutional Design: 10. The institutions of knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Author index\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structures: democracy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structures: democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structures:%20democracy%20%5BJPHV%5D%22\"\u003eJPHV\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004754743576,"sku":"9780521585934","price":26.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521585934i_081deed8-b333-4640-ac92-5c11a7b7be0b.jpg?v=1691370060","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-democratic-dilemma-can-citizens-learn-what-they-need-to-know-paperback-9780521585934","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}