Ambivalent Partisan How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy

Name: Ambivalent Partisan How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy
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ISBN: 9780199772759

ISBN-10: 0199772754

ISBN-13: 9780199772759

Edition: 2012

Authors: Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, Marco R. Steenbergen

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Over the past half century, two overarching questions have dominated the study of mass political behavior: How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are those judgments from a normative perspective? The authors of The Ambivalent Partisan offer a novel approach tothese questions, one in which political reasoning is viewed as arising from trade-offs among three generally conflicting psychological goals: making decisions easily, getting them right, and maintaining cognitive consistency. Taking aim at decades of received wisdom, the central claim of this book is that high-quality political judgment hinges less on citizens' cognitive ability than on their willingness…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English




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