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Do Facts Matter?: Information And Misinformation In American Politics (Volume 13) (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture ,Used
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A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformationthe state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jeffersons ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various casessuch as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomass appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obamas birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care ActHochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens inability or unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect knowledge pose a far greater threat to a democratic political system.Do Facts Matter? looks beyond individual citizens to the role that political elites play in informing, misinforming, and encouraging or discouraging the use of accurate or mistaken information or beliefs. Hochschild and Einstein show that if a wellinformed electorate remains a crucial component of a successful democracy, the deliberate concealment of political facts poses its greatest threat.
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