What according to democratic theorists should the ordinary citizen know about politics? What does several decades of empirical research about citizens' political knowledge tell us? And why should we care? This book offers a comprehensive outline of the vast literature on political knowledge and by providing an analytical framework for its studying

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Dr. Lauri Rapeli is a Senior Researcher at the Aronia Research and Development Institute in Raseborg, Finland and a research fellow at the University of Turku. He has previously also worked as a researcher at Åbo Akademi University. Rapeli is also a member of the Finnish national election study consortium.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Democratic theory and political knowledge 3. The empirical study of political knowledge 4. Linking together theory and practice: a framework for evaluating political knowledge 5. Discussion