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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

Jones, Bryan D.

Paperback

Series: American Politics & Political Economy (Paperback)

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0226406512
ISBN13: 9780226406510
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Mar 15 1995
Pages: 285
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual preferences remain relatively constant. Why, then, are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals by politicians on specific issues? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by innovatively connecting insights from cognitive science and rational choice theory to political life.

Individuals and political systems alike, Jones argues, tend to be attentive to only one issue at a time. Using numerous examples from elections, public opinion polls, congressional deliberations, and of bureaucratic decision-making, he shows how shifting attentiveness can and does alter choices and political outcomes--even when underlying preferences remain relatively fixed. An individual, for example, may initially decide to vote for a candidate because of her stand on spending but change his vote when he learns of her position on abortion, never really balancing the two options.

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