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“Reading More Newspapers and Voting Less?” A Rejoinderto Pattie and Johnston

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2004

Henry Milner
Affiliation:
Université Laval
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In their article, C. J. Pattie and R. J. Johnston (2003) do me the honour of putting a key aspect of my approach to the relationship between civic literacy and political participation to the test. Do recent British data, they ask, confirm my expectation that newspaper reading enhances civic literacy, and thus voter turnout? Though I am gratified that they chose to address this issue, and in such a thorough manner, and though there is much in the article which is valuable, I must ultimately take issue with their methodology and, thus, the central conclusion they draw.

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© 2004 Canadian Political Science Association