Introduction to U.S. Government: Prior Levels and Correlates of Political Knowledge
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How much do university students know about government and politics in the United States? In what areas of government and politics are students well-informed, and in what areas are they ignorant? To what extent are there systematic variations between students in their knowledge? These are the questions we seek to answer in this paper, which is based on a survey of students who were enrolled in the fall of 1986 in an introductory course in US government. While we initially undertook this study as part of an internal curriculum review, we feel that these results are of interest to political scientists as political educators and political analysts.References
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