PIPE Workshop: Martin Gilens, UCLA
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 650 Childs Way, 103, Los Angeles, CA 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USCitizen Competence and Democratic Governance Competing traditions in public opinion scholarship offer strikingly divergent understandings of the role citizens can and do play in democratic governance. Some scholars argue that most citizens are poor decision makers who are woefully uninformed and easily manipulated. Others believe that public opinion is “rational” Read more…