Week 7: Knowledge and Sophistication

Monday, October 7

• Dalton, Russell J. 2019. “The Nature of Citizen Beliefs.” In Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Seventh Edition. Los Angeles, California: SAGE, CQ Press. (Chapter 2: 15-38). available on Canvas.

In class activity

• Quiz: “What do you know about the U.S. government?”

Wednesday, October 9

• Jerit, Jennifer, and Jason Barabas. 2017. “Revisiting the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge.” Political Behavior 39 (4): 817–38.

• Pereira, Frederico Batista. 2019. “Gendered Political Contexts: The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge.” Journal of Politics 81 (4): 1480–93.