The simple art of voting the cognitive shortcuts of Italian voters

In this work, Delia Baldassarri provides a new understanding of how voting works by focusing on how choices are made rather than on what their outcomes are. Drawing on recent advances in cognitive psychology, political cognition, and behavioral economics, Baldassarri distinguishes voters based on th...

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Main Author: Baldassarri, Delia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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