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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics - Attention, Choice, and Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics - Attention, Choice, and Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual
preferences remain relatively constant. Why, then, are there often
abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total
reversals in congressional support for specific legislation, as
recently happened with the voting on the Superconducting
Supercollider? 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 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. Equally
applicable to policy-making and agenda-building processes on the
national level, Jones's new model of decision-making represents a
significant advance in our understanding of political behavior.
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