Citation:
Hochschild, Jennifer L. 2010. “If Democracies Need Informed Voters, How Can They Thrive While Expanding Enfranchisement?” Election Law Journal. Election Law Journal. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y4vtqcmd
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Apr 1, 2010Abstract:
In a democracy, knowledge is power.
—Jerit et al. 2006, 266
The two simplest truths I know about the distribution of political information in modern electorates are that the mean is low and the variance high.
—Converse 1990, 372
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Yancey, 1816