TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavine, Howard.
AU  - Johnston, Christopher D.
AU  - Steenbergen, Marco R.
TI  - The ambivalent partisan: how critical loyalty promotes democracy 
T2  - Series in political psychology
SN  - 9780199979
AV  - JK2271 .L38 2013
U1  - 324.0973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Party affiliation
KW  - United States
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Voting
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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'
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199772759.001.0001
ER  -