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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2010
      30 August 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511720468
      9780521402552
      9780521407700
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720468
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.488kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
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    Drawing on a multitude of data sets and building on analyses carried out over more than a decade, this book offers a major new theoretical explanation of how ordinary citizens figure out what they favour and oppose politically. Reacting against the conventional wisdom, which stresses how little attention the general public pays to political issues and the lack of consistency in their opinions, the studies presented in this book redirect attention to the processes of reasoning that can be discerned when people are confronted with choices about political issues. These studies demonstrate that ordinary people are in fact capable of reasoning dependably about political issues by the use of judgmental heuristics, even if they have only a limited knowledge of politics and of specific issues.

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    ‘In sum this is a didactically, theoretically and methodologically impressive report on an important research project, scrupulously conducted over a number of years by a powerful group of scholars with a wide range of skills. It is now required reading for all who work on voting behaviour and/or political attitudes.’

    Michael Laver Source: Political Studies

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