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      Collective Political Rationality
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      Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad

      Collective Political Rationality

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      Collective Political Rationality book

      Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad
      ByGregory E. McAvoy
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 11 May 2015
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315715650
      Pages 148
      eBook ISBN 9781315715650
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      McAvoy, G.E. (2015). Collective Political Rationality: Partisan Thinking and Why It's Not All Bad (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315715650

      ABSTRACT

      Amidst the polarization of contemporary politics, partisan loyalties among citizens are regarded as one contributor to political stalemate. Partisan loyalties lead Democrats and Republicans to look at the same economic information but to come to strikingly different conclusions about the state of the economy and the performance of the president in managing it. As a result, many observers argue that democratic politics would work better if citizens would shed their party loyalty and more dispassionately assess political and economic news.

      In this book, Gregory E. McAvoy argues—contra this conventional wisdom; that partisanship is a necessary feature of modern politics, making it feasible for citizens to make some sense of the vast number of issues that make their way onto the political agenda. Using unique data, he shows that the biases and distortions that partisanship introduces to collective opinion are real, but despite them, collective opinion changes meaningfully in response to economic and political news. In a comparison of the public’s assessment of the economy to those of economic experts, he finds a close correspondence between the two over time, and that in modern democracies an informed public will also necessarily be partisan.

      Modernizing the study of collective opinion, McAvoy's book is essential reading for scholars of American Public Opinion and Political Behavior.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|26 pages

      Public Opinion: Signal or Noise?

      chapter 3|21 pages

      The Partisan Signal

      chapter 4|23 pages

      Information Processing and Selective Attention

      chapter 5|21 pages

      Shifting Regimes

      chapter 6|18 pages

      The Good-Enough Public

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