Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.

First sentence: It is commonplace to note that no individual can pay attention to all things of importance at once, and this obvious limit in the processing capacity of humans has been intensively studied in laboratory situations.

Year

1994

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

2

Pages

285

ISBN

9780226406503

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