Too Dumb for Democracy?
Subtitle: Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 2019-03-05
Place of publication: Fredericton, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781773100418
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Political science; Political psychology; Politics, practical; Democracy
First sentence: In the sprint of 2008, I was sitting in a small room in a big house in Ottawa glancing back and forth between a studio piano that I had impulse-purchased a year before and never played and a shelf of books that had nothing to do with the project I was working on.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 11; label: ONE -- The Citizen decision-maker; label: 1.
title: Public matters, grey matter: The brain and decision-making
pagenum: 29; label: 2.
title: Deciding in democracies: The long road to self-government
pagenum: 57; label: 3.
title: What is a good political decision?
pagenum: 81; label: TWO -- Why do we make bad political decision?; label: 4.
title: Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media
pagenum: 107; label: 5.
title: Our milieu
pagenum: 131; label: 6.
title: Our institutions
pagenum: 141; label: 7.
title: Five ways of thinking about thinking
pagenum: 163; label: THREE -- How to make better political decisions; label: 8.
title: I want you! (to make better political decisions)
pagenum: 185; label: 9.
title: You cannot fix it all on you own: Why our milieu and institutions must change
pagenum: 260; label: Conclusion: Towards better political decisions - and then what?
pagenum: 223; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 229; label: Notes
pagenum: 233; label: Index
pagenum: 245