Reasoning and Choice

Explorations in Political Psychology

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Hardcover | 6 January 1992

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Drawing on a multitude of data sets and building on analyses carried out over more than a decade, Reasoning and Choice offers a major new theoretical explanation of how ordinary citizens figure out what they favor and oppose politically. Reacting against the conventional wisdom, which stresses how little attention the general public pays to political issues and the lack of consistency in their political opinions, the studies presented in this book redirect attention to the processes of reasoning that can be discerned when people are confronted with choices about political issues. These studies demonstrate that ordinary people are in fact capable of reasoning dependably about political issues by the use of judgmental heuristics, even if they have only a limited knowledge of politics and of specific issues. An important point is that both the well-educated and the less-educated use heuristics in political reasoning, but that the well-educated tend to employ different heuristics and take into account more factors in their consideration of issues.

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'In sum this is a didactically, theoretically and methodologically impressive report on an important research project, scrupulously conducted over a number of years by a powerful group of scholars with a wide range of skills. It is now required reading for all who work on voting behaviour and/or political attitudes.' Michael Laver, Political Studies

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List of tables and figures
Preface
Introduction: major themes
The role of heuristics in political reasoning: a theory sketch
Values under pressure: AIDS and civil liberties
The principle-policy puzzle: the paradox of American racial attitudes
Reasoning chains
The likability heuristic
Democratic values and mass publics
Ideological reasoning
Information and electoral choice
Stability and change in party identification: presidential to off-years
The American dilemma: the role of law as a persuasive symbol
Ideology and issue persuasibility: dynamics of racial policy attitudes
The new racism and the American ethos
Retrospect and prospect
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Reasoning and Choice

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