POLS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rationality

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

*chapter 2 of almond & verba: awareness of political and governmental affairs (at the time, us, uk, g high b, positive correlation with educational attainment. More education=more exposure to subject matters w/ political components convenient. Rather than perseverance to find education on ur own; more. Use edu to acquire more stuff=u have more to protect /incentive to know ab affairs: following media reports of political and governmental affairs. Primarily about radio/press (newspapers, magazines etc: us, g high b. Mexicans: communication disadvantage of comm system not as developed compared to other countries bc of not as developed econ system. Similarly w/ italy use of media for political info source due to a conscious decision not to acquire poli info despite having a better econ system. ^^both are plausible explanations: ability to name governmental ministries, political leaders. Results below due to disparity in resources available to political systems itself: us, g high i.