The ambivalent partisan
Subtitle: how critical loyalty promotes democracy
By: Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen
Contributors: Johnston, Christopher D.; Steenbergen, Marco R.
Series: Series in political psychology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780199772759
Subjects: Voting; Party affiliation; Political participation; Democracy; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Partisan ambivalence and the contingent nature of political judgment; title: Getting it right, making it easy, and validating our partisan commitments; title: Matters of conceptualization, measurement, and antecedents; title: Partisan ambivalence and preference formation; title: Ambivalence and the partisan perceptual screen; title: Ambivalent partisans at the polls; title: Unmoved mover or rational choice? ambivalence and the dynamic nature of partisanship; title: Partisan ambivalence, citizen competence, and American democracy.