POLI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Group, Omen
2 Apr 2018
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Er30 the effects of information and social cleavages explaining issue attitudes and vote choice in. Assesses impact of political knowledge/information on relationship between social/group identity and opinions/vote choice. Political knowledge changes influence of social group identity on attitudes in some cases minimising influence of opinions and in others amplifying it. Identified a number of cleavages in canadian politics believed to have an impact on attitudes, opinions and vote choices. Accepted generally that social identities shape values (eg catholics and non-european origins vote liberal, rural canadians more conservative, women are more left-wing and there is a differentiated. Also argued that social identify does more than just explain vote choice, but also explains reasoning processes when decisions made with little/no information (group identity is a shortcut to making decision on preferences) Mendelsohn + nadeau believe that when exposed to more information, voters rely less on group identity in this process.
