Political Knowledge Scale
The Political Knowledge Scale measures the range of factual information about politics that citizens hold and can retrieve, operationalized as a battery of factual quiz items. Delli Carpini and Keeter (1993, 1996) established the canonical short batteries (often five items) and argued that general political knowledge, not domain-specific information, is the most useful and reliable construct for survey research.
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- Delli Carpini, M. X., & Keeter, S. (1993). Measuring political knowledge: Putting first things first. American Journal of Political Science, 37(4), 1179-1206. DOI: 10.2307/2111549 ↗
- Delli Carpini, M. X., & Keeter, S. (1996). What Americans know about politics and why it matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300072754
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Political Knowledge Scale. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/political-psychology/political-knowledge-scale
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