Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-v2bm5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-15T00:37:08.796Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Facing Facts in an Era of Political Polarization: Young People’s Learning and Knowledge about Economic Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2017

Benjamin Bowyer  and
Joseph Kahne
Benjamin Bowyer
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Joseph Kahne
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Symposium: The Politics and Pedagogy of Economic Inequality
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , October 2017 , pp. 1056 - 1061
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Bartels, Larry M. 2009. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Bennett, W. Lance, and Iyengar, Shanto. 2008. “A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication.” Journal of Communication 58 (4): 707–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Delli Carpini, M. X., and Keeter, S.. 1996. What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Ditto, Peter H., et al. 1998. “Motivated Sensitivity to Preference-Inconsistent Information.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 75 (1): 53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Flanagan, Constance A. 2013. Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hess, Diana E. 2009. Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jerit, Jennifer, and Barabas, Jason. 2012. “Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment.” Journal of Politics 74 (3): 672–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kahne, Joseph, and Bowyer, Benjamin. 2017. “Educating For Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation.” American Educational Research Journal 54 (1): 3–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kull, Steven, Ramsay, Clay, and Lewis, Evan. 2003. “Misperceptions, The Media, And The Iraq War.” Political Science Quarterly 118 (4): 569–98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCright, Aaron M., and Dunlap, Riley E.. 2011. “The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public’s Views of Global Warming, 2001-2010.” The Sociological Quarterly 52 (2): 155–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nisbet, E. C., Cooper, K. E., and Garrett, R. K.. 2015. “The Partisan Brain: How Dissonant Science Messages Lead Conservatives and Liberals to (Dis)Trust Science.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 658 (1): 36–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Norton, Michael I., and Ariely, Dan. 2011. “Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 6 (1): 9–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pew Research Center. 2016. “In Presidential Contest, Voters Say ‘Basic Facts,’ Not Just Policies, Are in Dispute.” Available at www.people-press.org/2016/10/14/in-presidential-contest-voters-say-basic-facts-not-just-policies-are-in-dispute. Accessed December 1, 2016.Google Scholar
Piketty, Thomas, and Saez, Emmanuel. 2003. “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (1): 1–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Piketty, Thomas, and Saez, Emmanuel. 2015. “Tables and Figures from ‘Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998’ (Updated to 2013).” Available at http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez. Accessed February 18, 2015.Google Scholar
Stoker, L., and Jennings, M. K.. 2008. “Of Time and the Development of Partisan Polarization.” American Journal of Political Science 52 (3): 619–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stroud, Natalie Jomini. 2011. Niche News: The Politics of News Choice. New York: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taber, Charles S., and Lodge, Milton. 2006. “Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs.” American Journal of Political Science 50 (3): 755–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Westheimer, Joel, and Rogers, John. 2015. “Talking Inequality? A Mixed-Methods Study of How Teachers Address Economic Inequality in the High School Classroom.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.Google Scholar