The Paradox of Mass Politics: Knowledge and Opinion in the American Electorate

by W. Russell Neuman

Book Overview

A central current in the history of democratic politics is the tensions between the political culture of an informed citizenry and the potentially antidemocratic impulses of the larger mass of individuals who are only marginally involved in the political world. Given the public's low level of political interest and knowledge, it is paradoxical that the democratic system works at all.

In The Paradox of Mass Politics W. Russell Neuman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674654609
• ISBN13: 9780674654600
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"