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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words. A Visual Test of Political Knowledge: Does It Reduce the Effect of Age and Gender?
International Journal of Public Opinion Research ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-25 , DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edz052
Dieter Stiers 1 , Marc Hooghe 1
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Beyond any doubt, political knowledge is a crucial resource for citizens of democratic societies. It enables them to participate in politics in a more effective manner, and to identify more successfully the candidate and the political party that best represents her/his beliefs and preferences (Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996). We also know from decades of accumulated research that there are strong and persistent inequalities in the level of political knowledge, based on gender, patterns of media use, education level, and age. A routine finding in this literature is that women, young people, and the lowly educated score systematically lower with regard to levels of political knowledge (Prior, 2005). Given the central role of political knowledge in political science research, it is all the more troublesome that currently there is no generally accepted standard to measure political knowledge in a reliable and balanced manner. In addition, there are strong concerns about the validity of the commonly used measurement instruments. Therefore, in this note, we report on a test using a “visual” measure of political knowledge. More specifically, we have two main goals: First, we investigate whether including visual knowledge leads to different levels of knowledge compared to more traditional measures. Second, we investigate its effect on the gender gap and age gap that is routinely found in research on political knowledge.

中文翻译:

一张图片胜过千言万语。政治知识的视觉测试:是否会降低年龄和性别的影响?

毫无疑问,政治知识是民主社会公民的重要资源。它使他们能够更有效地参与政治活动,并能更成功地确定最能代表其信念和偏好的候选人和政党(Delli Carpini&Keeter,1996)。从几十年的积累研究中我们还知道,基于性别,媒体使用方式,受教育程度和年龄,政治知识水平存在严重且持续的不平等现象。在这些文献中的一个常规发现是,女性,年轻人和文化程度较低的人在政治知识水平上有系统地降低(Prior,2005年)。鉴于政治知识在政治科学研究中的核心作用,更麻烦的是,目前没有公认的标准来可靠,平衡地衡量政治知识。此外,人们对常用测量仪器的有效性存在强烈的担忧。因此,在本说明中,我们报告了使用“视觉”政治知识测度的测试。更具体地说,我们有两个主要目标:首先,我们调查与传统测量相比,包括视觉知识是否会导致知识水平有所不同。其次,我们调查了其对政治知识研究中通常发现的性别差距和年龄差距的影响。我们使用政治知识的“视觉”测度报告测试结果。更具体地说,我们有两个主要目标:首先,我们调查与传统测量相比,包括视觉知识是否会导致知识水平有所不同。其次,我们研究了其对政治知识研究中通常发现的性别差距和年龄差距的影响。我们使用政治知识的“视觉”测度报告测试结果。更具体地说,我们有两个主要目标:首先,我们调查与传统测量相比,包括视觉知识是否会导致知识水平有所不同。其次,我们调查了其对政治知识研究中通常发现的性别差距和年龄差距的影响。
更新日期:2020-01-25
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