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Political Knowledge and Participation Among Young Canadians and Americans

出版	Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SqB_0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Henry Milner begins to take up this challenge in this paper with an analysis of the results of the initial application of a set of political knowledge questions designed to be used in Canada and the United States. [...] The originality of this study lies in the fact that respondents in both countries responded to the same questions, both those testing political knowledge, and those getting at the causes or consequences of low levels of political knowledge. [...] Thus, it allows us to test for differences in the relative effects of voluntary group participation on informed political participation among young people in the two countries, and whether other 9 These phenomena are related, since, with the decline in civic duty, the effects of political knowledge loom larger in the decision of whether or not to vote. [...] We know that respondents over-report voting to place themselves in a positive light; the subjective element is even more salient among the many respondents to the surveys aged 15 to 18+, for whom the question is one of intent to vote in the future rather than experience of doing so. [...] The analysis points to the low level of political knowledge, but attributes the low reported turnout of the respondents primarily to cynicism, "a plurality says that the government is comparable population, and also because there is reason to suspect that Internet survey respondents act differently.