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Jack Dennis
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 23
Citations - 1204
Jack Dennis is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Political socialization. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1172 citations.
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Children in the Political System: Origins of Political Legitimacy
David Easton,Jack Dennis +1 more
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The Child'S Acquisition of Regime Norms: Political Efficacy
David Easton,Jack Dennis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a political regime as a means through which the wants of the members of a society are converted into binding decisions, and propose a set of ground rules for participating in all parts of the political process.
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The Child's Image of Government
David Easton,Jack Dennis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that the average grade school child of the test group appears to experience some rather basic changes in his conception of government, changes which move him toward a cognitive image that conforms to the requirements of a democratic political system.
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Support for the Institution of Elections by the Mass Public
TL;DR: The importance of elections is especially high in democratic systems as mentioned in this paper, and it has been argued that if any single institution serves as popular democracy's sine qua non, it is that of elections.
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Gender Differences in the Politicization of American Children
Diana Owen,Jack Dennis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that significant gender-related differenes exist for girls and boys, as well as for their parents, on a variety of measures of "politicization" and evidence suggests that these distinctions are passed on through the socialization process in the family at least to some degree.