The Rationalizing Voter Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology) - Softcover

Lodge, Milton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052117614X ISBN 13: 9780521176149

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Lodge and Taber propose and empirically test motivated political reasoning that predicts that when citizens think about familiar political leaders, groups and issues, their prior feelings spontaneously bias how information is encoded, retrieved, evaluated and acted upon.

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Críticas

“This is the most important book written on public opinion in the last quarter century, and it will drive research to come for years. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the basic foundation of democracy: public opinion.” – James N. Druckman, Northwestern University

"For decades Milt Lodge and Chuck Taber have been pioneers in the effort to incorporate knowledge from psychology and neuroscience about the unconscious, affectively charged processing of information to enrich standard models of decision making in political science. This is their magnum opus, and it shows how successful the effort has been. Every reader will learn something important from this book."
John T. Jost, New York University

"Lodge and Taber’s The Rationalizing Voter makes a major contribution to the study of voter decision making. The primary argument of the book is that almost everything we do (including almost everything political we do) is guided by fast, reflexive, and unconscious information processing in the brain. If the authors are right – and I think they are – the book might be better titled 'The Illusion of Choice in Democratic Politics'. No scholar of elections and voting behavior can ignore this work."
Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University

Biografía del autor

Milton Lodge is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He is the author of three books and numerous research articles in political science and psychology, a Fulbright Research Scholar (Nepal), a Research Scholar at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charles S. Taber is a Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at Stony Brook University. He has written several books and many articles on political psychology and computational modeling in the social sciences. He is the winner of nine research grants from the National Science Foundation. Professor Taber is a past editor of the journal Political Psychology and serves on several editorial boards in political science.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 052117614X
• ISBN 13: 9780521176149
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300