A Citizens Guide To The Political Psychology Of Voting
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Author | : David P. Redlawsk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317272870 |
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In the run-up to a contentious 2020 presidential election, the much-maligned American voter may indeed be wondering, “How did we get here?” A Citizen’s Guide to the Political Psychology of Voting offers a way of thinking about how voters make decisions that provides both hope and concern. In many ways, voters may be able to effectively process vast amounts of information in order to decide which candidates to vote for in concert with their ideas, values, and priorities. But human limitations in information processing must give us pause. While we all might think we want to be rational information processors, political psychologists recognize that most of the time we do not have the time or the motivation to do so. The question is, can voters do a “good enough” job even if they fail to account for everything during the campaign? Evidence suggests that they can, but it isn’t easy. Here, Redlawsk and Habegger portray a wide variety of voter styles and approaches—from the most motivated and engaged to the farthest removed and disenchanted—in vignettes that connect the long tradition of voter survey research to real life voting challenges. They explore how voters search for political information and make use of it in evaluating candidates and their positions. Ultimately, they find that American voters are reasonably competent in making well-enough informed vote choices efficiently and responsibly. For citizen voters as well as students and scholars, these results should encourage regular turnout for elections now and in the future.
Author | : David P. Redlawsk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781138193994 |
Download A Citizens Guide to Voting Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the run-up to a contentious 2020 presidential election, the much-maligned American voter may indeed be wondering, "How did we get here?" A Citizen's Guide to the Political Psychology of Voting offers a way of thinking about how voters make decisions that provides both hope and concern. In many ways, voters may be able to effectively process vast amounts of information in order to decide which candidates to vote for in concert with their ideas, values, and priorities. But human limitations in information processing must give us pause. While we all might think we want to be rational information processors, political psychologists recognize that most of the time we do not have the time or the motivation to do so. The question is, can voters do a "good enough" job even if they fail to account for everything during the campaign? Evidence suggests that they can, but it isn't easy. Here, Redlawsk and Habegger portray a wide variety of voter styles and approaches--from the most motivated and engaged to the farthest removed and disenchanted--in vignettes that connect the long tradition of voter survey research to real life voting challenges. They explore how voters search for political information and make use of it in evaluating candidates and their positions. Ultimately, they find that American voters are reasonably competent in making well-enough informed vote choices efficiently and responsibly. For citizen voters as well as students and scholars, these results should encourage regular turnout for elections now and in the future.
Author | : Costas Panagopoulos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 131751081X |
Download A Citizen's Guide to U.S. Elections Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Political observers routinely lament that American democracy is broken, and many of them blame electoral malfunction. But is the system really broken? Panagopoulos and Weinschenk make the case that citizens are empowered to fix what’s wrong with electoral politics and renew democracy in America, all within the institutional setup and framework of the existing system. Put simply, much of what is broken can be fixed if people stop throwing up their arms and start rolling up their sleeves to do the hard work of building our democracy. This book provides an overview of the basic features that characterize contemporary elections in the United States and includes discussions about voter participation and decision-making patterns, money in elections, and the role of parties and the media in presidential, congressional and state and local races. It also outlines some of the most important trends and challenges in the current system. As a call to action, each chapter features potential solutions to the challenges that exist in U.S. elections.
Author | : Douglas J. Amy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313002452 |
Download Behind the Ballot Box Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Interest in voting systems and voting system reform is growing in the United States. Voting systems—the procedures by which we cast votes and elect our public officials—are a crucial part of the democratic election process. The decision to use one kind of voting system rather than another has far-reaching political consequences. Among other things, voting systems help to determine which officials are elected to run our governments, the variety of parties that voters have to choose from at the polls, whether political minorities can win any representation, and whether the majority will rule. Amy gives readers all the information and analytical tools needed to make intelligent choices among voting systems. He provides a set of political criteria that can be used to judge voting systems and gives detailed descriptions of all the common voting systems used in the United States and other Western democracies, including winner-take-all systems as well as proportional representation systems. He also provides an analysis of the various political advantages and disadvantages associated with each type of system. This is an important guide for citizens, government officials, political activists, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about voting systems and their political implications.
Author | : Paul Goren |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0195396146 |
Download On Voter Competence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Argues with the standard interpretation of the American voter as incompetent in matters of policy.
Author | : Shanto Iyengar |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780393928198 |
Download Media Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Media Politics encourages students to examine how the media affect American politics and how politicians influence the media in order get elected, stay in power, and achieve policy goals.
Author | : Shanto Iyengar |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Mass media |
ISBN | : 9780393937794 |
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Current and authoritative, from a top scholar in the field.
Author | : David Patrick Houghton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135015155 |
Download A Citizen's Guide to American Foreign Policy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
American foreign policy often looks like a trail of man-made debris and disaster. Of course, the explanations for many poorly-made decisions are rather complex. In this brief and cogent analysis, Houghton shows us that understanding American foreign policy often comes down to recognizing the cognitive limitations of the decision-makers, which affects the foreign policy process. Then there is the nature of the decisions themselves. Quite a few decisions in American foreign policy involve ‘tragic’ choices, where leaders are effectively confronted with a series of progressively bad or uncomfortable options. And it is equally clear that some policies are not the product of any one individual’s preferences, but emerge as a consequence of the way in which complex modern governments with large bureaucracies operate. Written with the interested layperson in mind, as well as students of international affairs, this Citizen’s Guide to American Foreign Policy asks questions like, "Why do presidents so often do things which seem to be directly against the national interests of the United States – not just in retrospect, but even at the time?" "Why do there seem to be so many fiascoes in US foreign policy?" "Why does Congress sometimes tie the hands of the president in foreign affairs?" "Why do presidents seem to respond more to opinion polls or to what’s on CNN and Fox News than they do to the core interests of the United States?" Houghton’s overview helps us see past the partisan in-fighting that too often obscures the central issues in foreign affairs. This is vital, required reading for all readers who wish to better understand America’s involvement in the world.
Author | : Costas Panagopoulos |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : 9780199341399 |
Download Political Campaigns Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Political Campaigns is a detailed, comprehensive, in-depth look at modern campaigns that reflects on both theory and practice. It summarizes scholarly research on campaigns but also provides an in-depth and inside look into how contemporary campaigns are conducted"--
Author | : Richard R. Lau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2006-06-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139456865 |
Download How Voters Decide Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book attempts to redirect the field of voting behavior research by proposing a paradigm-shifting framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they confront the overwhelming rush of information from modern presidential election campaigns. Four broad theoretically-defined types of decision strategies that voters employ to help decide which candidate to support are described and operationally-defined. Individual and campaign-related factors that lead voters to adopt one or another of these strategies are examined. Most importantly, this research proposes a new normative focus for the scientific study of voting behavior: we should care about not just which candidate received the most votes, but also how many citizens voted correctly - that is, in accordance with their own fully-informed preferences.