The ambivalent partisan how critical loyalty promotes democracy
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 to temporarily suspend partisan habits and follow the 'evidence' wherever it leads. This occurs most re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2013, 2013
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| Series: | Series in political psychology / Series in political psychology
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 to temporarily suspend partisan habits and follow the 'evidence' wherever it leads. This occurs most readily when citizens experience a disjuncture between their stable political 'identities' and their contemporary 'evaluations' of party performance, a state the authors refer to as 'partisan ambivalence' |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780199979622 |