ความรู้ทางการเมืองกับทัศนคติต่อความเป็นประชาธิปไตยของประชาชน : ศึกษากรณีจังหวัดนนทบุรี / อลงกรณ์ วิศิษฏ์ศิลป์ = Political knowledge and attitude towards democracy of Thai citizen : a case study of Nonthaburi / Alongkorn Visitsilpa
This research is to study political knowledge and attitude towards democracy of thai citizen especially in the case of Nonthaburi, to investigate 6 relationships between attitude, political knowledge, sense of political efficacy, benefit gained from government seivices and politicians which political knowledge is independent variable. Survey research methodology is used with 534 samples drawn by multi-sampling technique during July to September 1S98. Data collection was made by the distribution of questionnaire developed for this study. The statistical analysis of the distributor of MEAN, ONEWAY ANOVA, X2 (CHI-SQUARE), and GAMMA were applied in the analysis. The research findings are fairly well confirmed the hypotheses which reveal that (1 ) the Nonthaburi citizens have average level of political knowledge (the level is 2 from 4 levels), (2) in the comparison result using political knowledge as independent variable, it is found statistically differ significantly that political knowledge is related to all 5 aspects of dependent variables, (3) the level of political knowledge of Nonthaburi citizens shows significant difference statistically on attitude towards democracy, sense of political efficacy, and benefits gained from government services and politicians.