Robert Huckfeldt

Political Disagreement (eBook, PDF)

The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Political disagreement is widespread within the communication network of ordinary citizens; furthermore, political diversity within these networks is entirely consistent with a theory of democratic politics built on the importance of individual interdependence. The persistence of political diversity and disagreement does not imply that political interdependence is absent among citizens or that political influence is lacking. The book's analysis makes a number of contributions. The authors demonstrate the ubiquitous nature of political disagreement. They show that communication and influence within dyads is autoregressive - that the consequences of dyadic interactions depend on the distribution of opinions within larger networks of communication. They argue that the autoregressive nature of political influence serves to sustain disagreement within patterns of social interaction, as it restores the broader political relevance of social communication and influence. They eliminate the deterministic implications that have typically been connected to theories of democratic politics based on interdependent citizens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511208256
• Artikelnr.: 38189493

Autorenporträt

Robert Huckfeldt is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. His interests lie in the areas of elections, public opinion, political communication, urban politics, and more generally in the relationships among groups and individuals in politics. He is the author of Dynamic Modeling (with Thomas Likens and Carol Weitzel Kohfeld, 1982), Politics in Context (2003), Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics (with Carol Weitzel Kohfeld, 1989) and Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication (with John Sprague, 1995). He has contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, as well as other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Communication
influence
and the capacity of citizens to disagree; 2. New information
old information
and persistent disagreement; 3. Dyads
networks
and autoregressive influence; 4. Disagreement
heterogeneity
and the effectiveness of political communication; 5. Disagreement
heterogeneity
and persuasion: how does disagreement survive?; 6. Agent-based explanations
patterns of communication
and the inevitability of homogeneity; 7. Agent-based explanations
autoregressive influence
and the survival of disagreement; 8. Heterogeneous networks and citizen capacity: disagreement ambivalence
and engagement; 9. Summary
implications
and conclusion.