Can We Manipulate Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Issue-Level Sophistication?

• In Event: Government and Opinion Formation

Brief Overview

We conceptualize issue-level sophistication as electorate members’ depth of understanding of a single policy issue. We then examine whether there is growth in sophistication over time, based on conditions.

Authors

• Balazs Feher-Gavra, West University of Timisoara

• Frank John Gonzalez, University of Arizona