The Social Citizen: Peer Networks and Political Behavior (Chicago Studies in American Politics) - Softcover

Sinclair, Betsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226922820 ISBN 13: 9780226922829

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2012

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Book by Sinclair Betsy

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"The best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century." (James H. Fowler, University of California, San Diego)"

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Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on one’s political decisions.

Drawing upon data from settings as diverse as South Los Angeles and Chicago’s wealthy North Shore, Betsy Sinclair shows that social networks do not merely inform citizen’s behavior, they can—and do—have the power to change it. From the decision to donate money to a campaign or vote for a particular candidate to declaring oneself a Democrat or Republican, basic political acts are surprisingly subject to social pressures. When members of a social network express a particular political opinion or belief, Sinclair shows, others notice and conform, particularly if their conformity is likely to be highly visible.

We are not just social animals, but social citizens whose political choices are significantly shaped by peer influence. The Social Citizen has important implications for our concept of democratic participation and will force political scientists to revise their notion of voters as socially isolated decision makers.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0226922820
• ISBN 13: 9780226922829
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 211