Beyond Rationality: Behavioral Political Science in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781316516355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Alex Mintz; Nicholas A. Valentino; Carly Wayne

Opis

The first textbook to present a framework of the Behavioral Political Science paradigm for understanding political decision-making.

Recenzje

'Mintz, Valentino, and Wayne masterfully explicate the frontier of the science of political behavior, demonstrating how insights from psychology, economics, communication studies, and political science weld into a formidable set of theories essential to understanding how politics works – in general, across domains, and with particular applications to a range of contemporary issues. As experts whose own work has defined this frontier, the authors provide a singularly comprehensive and coherent explanation of how factors such as limited information, cognitive biases, identity, and emotions shape the beliefs and decisions of political actors, including voters, candidates, terrorists, and foreign policy makers. Any reader seeking to make sense of our dizzying political world will be engaged and enlightened.' Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Spis treści

1. Living in interesting times: How can behavioral political science help us understand the current political moment?; 2. The rational actor model of political decision making; 3. The limits of human processing: Bounded rationality, heuristics and biases; 4. What you say may matter less than how you say it: The role of framing in political communication effects; 5. The limitations of the unitary actor model of government; 6. Feeling politics: How emotions impact attitudes and behavior; 7. The origins of political preferences: Material self-interest or personality, moral values and group attitudes?; 8. Better to be right or to belong? Motivated reasoning in politics; 9. Looking forward: How behavioral political science can help policymakers.