The Consumer Citizen

The Consumer Citizen
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780197526781
ISBN-13 : 0197526780
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Book Synopsis The Consumer Citizen by : Ethan Porter

Download or read book The Consumer Citizen written by Ethan Porter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans spend far more time thinking about what to buy, and what not to buy, than they do about politics. Political leaders often make political claims while using consumer terminology. And political decisions resemble consumer decisions in surprising ways. Together, these forces help give rise to the consumer-citizen: A person who depends on tools and techniques familiar from consumer life to make sense of politics. Understanding citizens as consumer-citizens has implications for a broad array of topics related to public opinion and political behaviour. More than a dozen new experiments make clear that appealing to the consumer-citizen as consumer-citizen can increase trust in government, improve attitudes toward taxes, and enhance political knowledge. Indeed, such appeals can even cause people to sign up for government-sponsored health insurance. However, the consumer-citizen may also prefer candidates whose policies would explicitly undercut their own self-interest. Two concepts from consumer psychology, consumer fairness and operational transparency, are especially useful for understanding the consumer citizen. Although the rise of the consumer-citizen may trouble democratic theorists, the lessons of the consumer-citizen can be applied to a new approach to civic education, with the aim of enriching democracy and public life"--


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