Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment

by Michael MacKuen, George E. Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, et al.

Book Overview

Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized, its adherents claim that competing models have failed to offer a more scientific model of political decisionmaking. This measured but provocative book offers precisely that: an alternative way of understanding political behavior based on cognitive research.

The authors draw on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226504697
• ISBN13: 9780226504698
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"