Ignorance and Culture
Rejoinder to Fenster and Chandler
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6252124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Wisniewski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-115 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811003625513 |
| OpenAlex | W2094038158 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
In the ongoing debate about the impact that studies of public ignorance should have on the study of culture, Mark Fenster and Bret Chandler assume that wider political participation must be our goal, because, to them, political ignorance is a culturally imposed, and therefore removable, obstacle—as if, without the baleful influence of culture, political participants would be well informed. Culture is indeed a primary influence on people's political opinions, so political scientists should indeed study the role it plays in the formation of political beliefs. But such studies should begin with ignorance as people's default position, and should refrain from assuming that the source of ignorance is cultural domination or manipulation
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ignorance · Obstacle · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Political Language
Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Rational Public
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Reconsidering the Rational Public
Distinction
Political Culture vs. Cultural Studies
The “Public” and “Its” Ignorance
The nature of belief systems in mass publics (1964)
Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles
Democratic competence in normative and positive theory
Murray Edelman, polemicist of public ignorance
Voter ignorance and the democratic ideal
Causes of the Financial Crisis
The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Partisan Disagreement as a Challenge to Democratic Competence
A Crisis of Politics, Not Economics
Paradoxes of Democratic Accountability
Democratic competence, before converse and after
The Regulated Meltdown of 2008
The Credit‐rating Agencies and the Subprime Debacle
On Idiocratic Theory
The Irrelevance of Economic Theory to Understanding Economic Ignorance
The Anatomy of a Murder
Belief systems today
Sociotropic Politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |