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Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy

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Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy - Lavine, Howard G, and Johnston, Christopher D, and Steenbergen, Marco R
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How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are those judgments from a normative perspective? The central claim of this book is that high-quality political judgment hinges less on citizens' cognitive ability than on their willingness to temporarily suspend partisan habits and follow the "evidence" wherever it leads. Ambivalent partisans are those who experience a disjuncture between their political identities and their evaluations of party performance. Drawing on both experimental and survey ...

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Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy 2012, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199772759

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