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Reconceiving decision-making in democratic politics : attention, choice, and public policy

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.
Print Book, English, 1994
Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
XII, 277 Seiten Diagramme 24 cm
9780226406503, 9780226406510, 0226406504, 0226406512
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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
Literaturverz. S. 247 - 269