01641nam a2200313 a 4500 EDZ0000105611 StDuBDS 20150804193929.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121025s2013 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199979301 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS JK1967 .G58 2013 324.973 23 Goren, Paul. On voter competence [electronic resource] / Paul Goren. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource. Series in political psychology Research shows that most citizens are shockingly uninformed about public affairs, liberal-conservative ideologies, and the issues of the day. This has led most scholars to condemn typical American voters as politically brainless and to conclude that policy voting lies beyond their reach. 'On Voter Competence' breaks sharply from this view. According to Paul Goren, people vote based on abstract policy principles, a practice that has escaped scholars because they have searched for evidence of policy voting in the wrong places. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 30, 2012). Voting United States. Voting United States History. Print version 9780195396140 Series in political psychology. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195396140.001.0001 37169 37169