Practical Political Knowledge: Developing A New Measure of Political Decision-Making Ability

• In Event: Measurement Issues and Self-Reports in Surveys

Brief Overview

We present a new measure of practical political ability that better targets the information or knowledge citizens actually need to make high quality political decisions and directly measures cognitive skills that improve decision making of all types.

Authors

• Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• Mona Susanne Kleinberg, Queens College, CUNY

• Amy S. Funck, Rutgers University