The Consumer Citizen 1st Edition Ethan Porter

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Citizens are asked to buy, and asked to consider to buy, goods of all sizes and all prices, nearly all of the time. Appeals to political decision-making are less common. In The Consumer Citizen, Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how Americans think about politics. Indeed, Porter explains that consumer habits can affect citizens’ attitudes about their government, their taxes, their politicians, and even whether they purchase government-sponsored health insurance. The consumer citizen approaches government as if it were just an ordinary firm. Of course, government is not an ordinary firm—far from it—and the disjunction between what government is, and the consumer apparatus that citizens bring to bear on their evaluations of it, offers insight into several

long-unanswered questions in political behavior and public opinion. How do many Americans make sense of the political world? The Consumer Citizen offers a novel answer: By relying on the habits and tools that they learn as consumers.

Table contents:

1 Introduction

2 The Consumer Citizen and Consumer Fairness

3 The Consumer Citizen, Politicians and Policy

4 The Consumer Citizen, Political Knowledge and Political Attitudes

5 The Consumer Citizen, Trust and Operational Transparency

6 Consumers and Citizens

References

Appendix

Notes

Index

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