What Goes Without Saying

Navigating Political Discussion in America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvTaylor N. Carlson,Jaime E. Settle

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Why are political conversations uncomfortable for so many people? The current literature focuses on the structure of people's discussion networks and the frequency with which they talk about politics, but not the dynamics of the conversations themselves. In What Goes Without Saying, Taylor N. Carlson and Jaime E. Settle investigate how Americans navigate these discussions in their daily lives, with particular attention to the decision-making process around when and how to broach politics. The authors use a multi-methods approach to unpack what they call the 4D Framework of political conversation: identifying the ways that people detect others' views, decide whether to talk, discuss their opinions honestly-or not, and determine whether they will repeat the experience in the future. In developing a framework for studying and explaining political discussion as a social process, What Goes Without Saying will set the agenda for research in political science, psychology, communication, and sociology for decades to come.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-09
Mått156 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor318
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108831864

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Taylor N. Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Talking Politics: Political Discussion Networks and the New American Electorate (2020). She has received numerous awards for her research. Jaime E. Settle is an Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary. Her first book, Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America, won the Best Book Award from the Experimental Politics section of APSA.

1. Opening the black box of political discussion; 2. The 4d framework of political discussion; 3. Data collection; 4. Detection: Mapping the political landscape (stage 1); 5. Decision: To talk or not to talk? (stage 2); 6. Discussion: The psychophysiological experience of political discussion (stage 3); 7. [further] discussion: Expression in political discussion (stage 3); 8. Determination: When discussion divides us (stage 4); 9. Individual dispositions and the 4d framework; 10. The costs of conversation; Index.

'The nature of democratic discourse is one of the most studied topics in the social sciences – and for good reason since it plays a large role in determining how democracies function. Yet, existing work has almost completely ignored the fundamental question of why people talk about politics in the first place. The authors make a seminal contribution by detailing the processes that drive political discussions or lack thereof. Their framework, which accentuates how social processes shape political interactions, will guide thinking for generations to come.' James N. Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University