Book contents
- Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics: Are Electorates Self-Educating?
- Series page
- Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Origins and acknowledgments
- 1 Experts, activists, and self-educatingelectorates
- 2 The imperatives of interdependence
- 3 Experts, activists, and the social communication of political expertise
- 4 Unanimity, discord, and opportunities for opinion leadership
- 5 Informational asymmetries among voters
- 6 Expertise and bias in political communication networks
- 7 Interdependence, communication, and calculation
- 8 Partisanship and the efficacy of social communication in constrained environments
- 9 Noise, bias, and expertise: the dynamics of becoming informed
- 10 The complex dynamicsof political communication
- 11 Experts, activists, and democratic prospects
- References
- Index of key concepts and authors
4 - Unanimity, discord, and opportunities for opinion leadership
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics: Are Electorates Self-Educating?
- Series page
- Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Origins and acknowledgments
- 1 Experts, activists, and self-educatingelectorates
- 2 The imperatives of interdependence
- 3 Experts, activists, and the social communication of political expertise
- 4 Unanimity, discord, and opportunities for opinion leadership
- 5 Informational asymmetries among voters
- 6 Expertise and bias in political communication networks
- 7 Interdependence, communication, and calculation
- 8 Partisanship and the efficacy of social communication in constrained environments
- 9 Noise, bias, and expertise: the dynamics of becoming informed
- 10 The complex dynamicsof political communication
- 11 Experts, activists, and democratic prospects
- References
- Index of key concepts and authors
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Experts, Activists, and Democratic PoliticsAre Electorates Self-Educating?, pp. 68 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014