#59: Belief Systems with Mark Brandt
Opinion Science
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Is the Belief System Network a Real Thing?
In this paper, we try to flesh out these ideas as much as we can. And by being able to put all these pieces together in this kind of, like, sensible but new way, it makes sense of other things that hadn't really been considered together before. People who are particularly politically knowledgeable and who are engaged in politics tend to have consistent belief systems on a topic. Your average american doesn't pay any attention to politics,. is very politically disengaged and does not have consistent liberal or conservative positions. When you change one, a person's attitude on one issue, it doesn't seem to have very big effects on other issues that you might think should change.
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