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citizen knowledge  

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  • Political knowledge is the factual information—and the skills for interpreting it—needed to act as an effective member of the polis or political community. From Plato to John Stuart Mill, political theorists have viewed political knowledge as a precondition for exercising citizenship—for taking part in community decision making. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Citizen Knowledge]

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