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17 - From Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague, “Networks in Context”

from III - Later Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

Edited by
Mario L. Small ,
Brea L. Perry ,
Bernice Pescosolido  and
Edward B. Smith
Mario L. Small
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Brea L. Perry
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bernice Pescosolido
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington
Edward B. Smith
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Summary

Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine the winner of an election, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of democratic citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens disagree, they argue with one another, they inform one another, and they arrive at political choices and decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation.

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groupsnetworkscontextsinterdependencesocial communicationdisagreementpersuasionautoregressive influence
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Personal Networks
Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis
 , pp. 471 - 476
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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