เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Political Sophistication Measurement	Political Knowledge Scale
สาขาวิชา	จิตวิทยาการเมือง	จิตวิทยาการเมือง
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1987	1993
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Robert C. Luskin & John Zaller	Michael Delli Carpini & Scott Keeter
ประเภท	Composite cognitive index	Factual knowledge battery
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Zaller, J. R. (1992). The nature and origins of mass opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521407861	Delli Carpini, M. X., & Keeter, S. (1993). Measuring political knowledge: Putting first things first. American Journal of Political Science, 37(4), 1179-1206.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Political Awareness Index, Political Expertise Measure, Cognitive Sophistication Index	Civic Knowledge Battery, Factual Political Knowledge Index, Delli Carpini-Keeter Knowledge Items
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
สรุป	Political sophistication measurement assesses the size, range, and organization of an individual's political belief system, the degree to which a person's political cognitions are numerous, wide-ranging, and well integrated. Luskin (1987) developed rigorous operationalizations, and Zaller (1992) showed that political awareness, his preferred sophistication indicator, governs how citizens receive and accept political messages.	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.