The ambivalent partisan [electronic resource] : how critical loyalty promotes democracy /
by Lavine, Howard; Johnston, Christopher D; Steenbergen, Marco R.
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BookSeries: Series in political psychology: Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199979622 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Party affiliation -- United States | Democracy -- Psychological aspects | Political participation -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Voting -- United States -- Psychological aspectsOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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