政治的無知への対処 Uninformed : Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It

著者名：Lupia, Arthur

Oxford University Press（2015/11/02発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190263720
• eISBN：9780190263744

Description

Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government incorrectly. Given this unfortunate state of affairs, it is not surprising that more knowledgeable people often deride the public for its ignorance. Some experts even think that less informed citizens should stay out of politics altogether. As Arthur Lupia shows in Uninformed, this is not constructive. At root, critics of public ignorance fundamentally misunderstand the problem. Many experts believe that simply providing people with more facts will make them more competent voters. However, these experts fail to understand how most people learn, and hence don't really know what types of information are even relevant to voters. Feeding them information they don't find relevant does not address the problem. In other words, before educating the public, we need to educate the educators. Lupia offers not just a critique, though; he also has solutions. Drawing from a variety of areas of research on topics like attention span and political psychology, he shows how we can actually increase issue competence among voters in areas ranging from gun regulation to climate change. To attack the problem, he develops an arsenal of techniques to effectively convey to people information they actually care about. Citizens sometimes lack the knowledge that they need to make competent political choices, and it is undeniable that greater knowledge can improve decision making. But we need to understand that voters either don't care about or pay attention to much of the information that experts think is important. Uninformed provides the keys to improving political knowledge and civic competence: understanding what information is important to and knowing how to best convey it to them.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTSDedicationAcknowledgements1. From Infinite Ignorance to Knowledge that Matters2. Who Are the Educators and How Can We Help Them?PART I: THE VALUE OF INFORMATION3. Three Definitions4. The Silver Bullet5. The Logic of Competence6. Lost in the Woods7. Attracting Attention8. Building Source Credibility 9. The Politics of Competence 10. Value Diversity and How to Manage It 11. Complexity and Framing12. Political Roles: Who Needs to Know?13. Costs and BenefitsPART II. HOW TO IMPROVE "POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE"14. What We Know 15. Reading the Questions, Understanding the Answers16. Political Knowledge Scales: Something Doesn't Add Up17. Assessing Information Assessments18. All in Good Measure19. The Silver LiningReferences