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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457939403321

Autore

Huckfeldt R. Robert

Titolo

Political disagreement : the survival of diverse opinions within communication networks / / Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson and John Sprague [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-16103-7

1-280-54113-X

0-511-21541-X

0-511-21720-X

0-511-21183-X

0-511-31581-3

0-511-61710-0

0-511-21360-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology

Disciplina

320/.01/4

Soggetti

Communication in politics

Political participation

Consensus (Social sciences)

Public opinion

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Communication, Influence, and the Capacity of Citizens to Disagree; 2 New Information, Old Information, and Persistent Disagreement; 3 Dyads, Networks, and Autoregressive Influence; 4 Disagreement, Heterogeneity, and the Effectiveness of Political Communication; 5 Disagreement, Heterogeneity, and Persuasion: How Does Disagreement Survive?; 6 Agent-Based Explanations, Patterns of Communication, and the Inevitability of Homogeneity

7 Agent-Based Explanations, Autoregressive Influence, and the Survival



of Disagreement8 Heterogeneous Networks and Citizen Capacity: Disagreement, Ambivalence, and Engagement; 9 Summary, Implications, and Conclusion; Appendix A The Indianapolis-St. Louis Study; Appendix B The Opinion Simulation Software; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Political disagreement is widespread within the communication network of ordinary citizens; furthermore, political diversity within these networks is entirely consistent with a theory of democratic politics built on the importance of individual interdependence. The persistence of political diversity and disagreement does not imply that political interdependence is absent among citizens or that political influence is lacking. The book's analysis makes a number of contributions. The authors demonstrate the ubiquitous nature of political disagreement. They show that communication and influence within dyads is autoregressive - that the consequences of dyadic interactions depend on the distribution of opinions within larger networks of communication. They argue that the autoregressive nature of political influence serves to sustain disagreement within patterns of social interaction, as it restores the broader political relevance of social communication and influence. They eliminate the deterministic implications that have typically been connected to theories of democratic politics based on interdependent citizens.