The ambivalent partisan [electronic resource] : how critical loyalty promotes democracy / Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. Lavine, Howard. Johnston, Christopher D. Steenbergen, Marco R. Party affiliation United States. Democracy Psychological aspects. Political participation United States Psychological aspects. Voting United States Psychological aspects. JK2271 .L38 2013 324.0973 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). Taking aim at decades of received wisdom, 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. This occurs most readily when citizens experience a disjuncture between their stable political 'identities' and their contemporary 'evaluations' of party performance, a state the authors refer to as 'partisan ambivalence'. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 2013. 2013 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199772759.001.0001 eng Series in political psychology Series in political psychology. United States. United States United States