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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

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Paperback | 15 March 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual preferences remain relatively constant. Why, then, are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation, as happened with the voting on the Superconducting Supercollider? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational choice theory to political life. Individuals and political systems alike, Jones argues, tend to be attentive to only one issue at a time. Using numerous examples from elections, public-opinion polls, congressional deliberations and bureaucratic decision-making, he shows how shifting attentiveness can and does alter choices and political outcomes - even when underlying preferences remain relatively fixed. An individual, for example, may initially decide to vote for a candidate because of her stand on spending, but change his vote when he learns of her position on abortion, never really balancing the two options.

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List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: A Nonmarginalist Approach for Political Science
The Paradox of Temporal Political Choice
Attention and Agendas in Politics
Rationality in Political
Attention and Temporal Choice in
A Change of Mind or a Change of Focus?
Raising and Focusing Attention in the Mass Public
The Paradox of Issue Evolution
Macropolitics: Is Political Conflict Recurrent?
Policy Subsystems and the Processing of Issues
The Serial Policy Shift
Governments as Adaptive Systems
Political Choice and Democratic Governance
Appendix: Spatial Choice Theory and Attentional Dynamics
Bibliography
Index
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

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