01940nam a2200361 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040002100152050002200173082001700195100002000212245016600232260005800398300002300456490003500479504005100514520049300565588009501058650003801153650003801191650006701229650005001296700002901346700002601375776003301401830003601434856009101470999001701561EDZ0000105868StDuBDS20150804193924.0m||||||||d||||||||cr||||||||||||121025s2013    nyu    fo|    001 0 eng|d  a9780199979622 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDScStDuBDS 0aJK2271b.L38 201304a324.09732231 aLavine, Howard.14aThe ambivalent partisanh[electronic resource] :bhow critical loyalty promotes democracy /cHoward G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen.  aNew York ;aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource.1 aSeries in political psychology  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.8 aTaking 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'.  aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). 0aParty affiliationzUnited States. 0aDemocracyxPsychological aspects. 0aPolitical participationzUnited StatesxPsychological aspects. 0aVotingzUnited StatesxPsychological aspects.1 aJohnston, Christopher D.1 aSteenbergen, Marco R.08iPrint versionz9780199772759 0aSeries in political psychology.403Oxford scholarship onlineuhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199772759.001.0001  c36808d36808