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Do Facts Matter? : Information and Misinformation in American Politics

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Fact-checking Democracy: Importance of Information in Politics

"Do Facts Matter?" analyzes the role of accurate information in American politics. The authors emphasize how crucial knowledge and accurate use of facts are for creating and maintaining a healthy democracy. By exploring cases like the impeachment of Bill Clinton or the response to global warming, the book exemplifies how incorrect information can have serious consequences and cause more harm than ignorance. This book is ideal for any reader interested in understanding the importance of fact-checking and political accountability in a democratic state.

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Do Facts Matter? : Information and Misinformation in American Politics

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ISBN: 9780806146867
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱3,030.75
Date of Publication: 2015-01-20
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Politics, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.79
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A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information? Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens’ inability or unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect “knowledge” pose a far greater threat to a democratic political system.Do Facts Matter? looks beyond individual citizens to the role that political elites play in informing, misinforming, and encouraging or discouraging the use of accurate or mistaken information or beliefs. Hochschild and Einstein show that if a well-informed electorate remains a crucial component of a successful democracy, the deliberate concealment of political facts poses its greatest threat.
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Fact-checking Democracy: Importance of Information in Politics

"Do Facts Matter?" analyzes the role of accurate information in American politics. The authors emphasize how crucial knowledge and accurate use of facts are for creating and maintaining a healthy democracy. By exploring cases like the impeachment of Bill Clinton or the response to global warming, the book exemplifies how incorrect information can have serious consequences and cause more harm than ignorance. This book is ideal for any reader interested in understanding the importance of fact-checking and political accountability in a democratic state.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.