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Robert C. Luskin
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 38
Citations - 4442
Robert C. Luskin is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deliberation & Deliberative democracy. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 37 publications receiving 4155 citations.
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Explaining political sophistication
TL;DR: This paper developed a nonlinear simultaneous equation model to weigh explanations of three general sorts: the political information to which people are exposed, their ability to assimilate and organize such information, and theirmotivation to do so.
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Measuring Political Sophistication
TL;DR: A second and generally preferable approach capitalizes on the relationship between constraint and abstraction as discussed by the authors, by gauging a person's use of abstractions-either how abstract they are or how heavily used-we can gauge his or her.
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Considered Opinions: Deliberative Polling in Britain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of the first Deliberative Poll, in which a national British sample discussed the issue of rising crime and what to do about it.
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Experimenting with a Democratic Ideal: Deliberative Polling and Public Opinion
TL;DR: The results, responding to defeatist, extenuationist, and alarmist critiques, show that ordinary people can deliberate, that they benefit from doing so, and that the process neither biases nor polarizes their opinions as discussed by the authors.
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''Don't Know'' Means ''Don't Know'': DK Responses and the Public's Level of Political Knowledge
Robert C. Luskin,John G. Bullock +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show that discouraging DKs does little to affect how much the public knows about politics and that the increase in correct responses for closed-ended items is large but mainly illusory.