Measuring Political Sophistication

Abstract

ion A second and generally preferable approach capitalizes on the relationship between constraint and abstraction. Constraint, in large degree, is abstraction. Hence by gauging a person's use of abstractions-either how abstract they are or how heavily used-we can gauge his or her This content downloaded from 207.46.13.172 on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 06:12:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms MEASURING POLITICAL SOPHISTICATION 877 constraint. Size and range, through correlation with constraint, follow