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100	1		_aGILENS, Martin _94090
245	1	0	_aPolitical ignorance and colletive policy preferences
260			_c2001
520	3		_aIn contrast with the expectations of many analysts, I find that raw policy-specific facts, such as the direction of change in the crime rate or the amount of the federal budget devoted to foreign aid, have a significant influence on the public`s political judgments. Using both traditional surbey methods and survey-based randomized experiments, I show that ignorance of policy-specific information leads many Americans to hold political views different from those they would hod otherwise. I also show that the effect of police-specific information is not adequately captured ty the measures of general politial knowledge used in previous research. Finally, I show that the effect of policy-specific ignorance is greatest for Americans with the highest levels of political knowledge. Rather than serve to dilute the influence of new information, general knowledge (and the cognitive capacities it reflects) appears to facilitate the incorporation of new policy-specific information into political judgments
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g95, 2, p. 379-397 _d, 2001 _w
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998			_a20020927 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060515 _b1418^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c7486 _d7486
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