Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy

by Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, Marco R. Steenbergen

Over the past half century, two overarching questions have dominated the study of mass political behavior: How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are those judgments from a normative perspective? The authors of The Ambivalent Partisan offer a novel approach to these questions, one in which political reasoning is viewed as arising from trade-offs among three generally conflicting psychological goals: making decisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199772754
• ISBN13: 9780199772759
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"