01940nam a2200361 a 4500 EDZ0000105868 StDuBDS 20150804193924.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121025s2013 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199979622 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS JK2271 .L38 2013 324.0973 23 Lavine, Howard. The ambivalent partisan [electronic resource] : how critical loyalty promotes democracy / Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource. Series in political psychology Includes bibliographical references and index. 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'. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). Party affiliation United States. Democracy Psychological aspects. Political participation United States Psychological aspects. Voting United States Psychological aspects. Johnston, Christopher D. Steenbergen, Marco R. Print version 9780199772759 Series in political psychology. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199772759.001.0001 36808 36808