TAILIEUCHUNG - Citizens, Knowledge, and the Information Environment

While population grew at rates beyond Malthus’ imagination (see Figure 1), food production expanded even faster, and the debate has shifted to concerns about the role of population growth in the depletion of other natural resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals; in the degradation of renewable resources, such as forests, fisheries and biodiversity; and in the despoliation of local environment and the global climate. The analysis and debate have been carried out on two distinct levels: the macro level, involving large units of analysis, such as the nation, the region or the globe; and the micro level, involving small units of analysis, such as the household,. | Citizens Knowledge and the Information Environment Jennifer Jerit University of Connecticut Jason Barabas Harvard University Toby Bolsen Northwestern University In a democracy knowledge is power. Research explaining the determinants of knowledge focuses on unchanging demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. This study combines data on the public s knowledge of nearly 50 political issues with media coverage of those topics. In a two-part analysis we demonstrate how education the strongest and most consistent predictor of political knowledge has a more nuanced connection to learning than is commonly recognized. Sometimes education is positively related to knowledge. In other instances its effect is negligible. A substantial part of the variation in the education-knowledge relationship is due to the amount of information available in the mass media. This study is among the first to distinguish the short-term aggregate-level influences on political knowledge from the largely static individual-level predictors and to empirically demonstrate the importance of the information environment. Is there a permanent information underclass in the United States Decades of research would seem to suggest so. A voluminous literature shows that socioeconomic factors such as being rich or educated are positively associated with political knowledge . Bennett 1988 Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996 Neuman 1986 . So well developed is this literature that the characteristics commonly associated with political knowledge are referred to as the usual suspects . Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996 179 . However the focus on individual-level factors gives the impression of a static relationship between socioeconomic status and political awareness. Not only is this a normatively unsatisfying position but it also strikes us as inaccurate. Citizens experience politics in an environment that changes over time as domestic and foreign developments unfold. In addition to individual-level .

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