TY - JOUR
AU - KEETER,, SCOTT
AB - Abstract The U.S. public's current knowledge about politics is compared with levels of knowlege in the 1940s and 1950s. Fourteen questions asked by Gallup on various surveys from 1945 to 1957 were included on a larger survey of political knowledge conducted by telephone in 1989 with a randomly selected sample of 610 adult U.S. residents. On 8 of the 14 items, the percentage answering correctly in 1989 was higher than in the earlier surveys (by 4–15 points). One item showed an increase of 1 percent, two were down 1 percent, and three others declined by 5 percent, 9 percent, and 10 percent. When level of education is controlled, however, levels of knowledge appear to have declined for most of the items. A reanalysis of some of the original Gallup data is used to estimate the effectiveness of schools in transmitting political information in 1989 compared with the earlier years. This content is only available as a PDF. © 1991, the American Association for Public Opinion Research
TI - STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE U.S. PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE OF POLITICS
JF - Public Opinion Quarterly
DO - 10.1086/269283
DA - 1991-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/stability-and-change-in-the-u-s-public-s-knowledge-of-politics-NIvEQEos2Y
SP - 583
EP - 612
VL - 55
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -