Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics

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Experts, Activists, and Democratic Politics is written by T. K. Ahn and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316165213 (ISBN 10) and 9781316165218 (ISBN 13).

This book addresses opinion leadership in democratic politics as a process whereby individuals send and receive information through their informally based networks of political communication. The analyses are based on a series of small group experiments, conducted by the authors, which build on accumulated evidence from more than seventy years of survey data regarding political communication among interdependent actors. The various experimental designs provide an opportunity to assess the nature of the communication process, both in terms of increasing citizen expertise as well as in terms of communicating political biases.