Reconceiving decision-making in democratic politics : attention, choice, and public policy
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Reconceiving decision-making in democratic politics : attention, choice, and public policy
（American politics and political economy）
University of Chicago Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780226406503
Description
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 in congressional support for specific legislation, as happened with the voting on the Superconducting Supercollider? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by 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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures Preface Introduction: A Nonmarginalist Approach for Political Science Pt. 1: The Paradox of Temporal Political Choice 1: Attention and Agendas in Politics 2: Rationality in Political Choice 3: Attention and Temporal Choice in Politics 4: A Change of Mind or a Change of Focus? 5: Raising and Focusing Attention in the Mass Public Pt. 2: The Paradox of Issue Evolution 6: Macropolitics: Is Political Conflict Recurrent? 7: Policy Subsystems and the Processing of Issues 8: The Serial Policy Shift 9: Governments as Adaptive Systems 10: Political Choice and Democratic Governance Appendix: Spatial Choice Theory and Attentional Dynamics Bibliography Index
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: paper ISBN 9780226406510
Description
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 in congressional support for specific legislation, as happened with the voting on the Superconducting Supercollider? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by 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.
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