1st Edition

A Citizen’s Guide to the Political Psychology of Voting

140 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the run-up to a contentious 2020 presidential election, the much-maligned American voter may indeed be wondering, “How did we get here?” A Citizen’s Guide to the Political Psychology of Voting offers a way of thinking about how voters make decisions that provides both hope and concern. In many ways, voters may be able to effectively process vast amounts of information in order to decide... Read more

1. The Political Psychology of Voting  2. Voter Decision-Making as a Process  3. The Voter’s Information Environment  4. Good Decisions are Rational Decisions. Or are they?  5. The Constrained Rational Voter  6. Our Identities Matter  7. The Intuitive Voter  8. Emotions and Voting  9. So, What Do Voters Do?

Biography

David P. Redlawsk is James R. Soles Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He previously taught at Rutgers and the University of Iowa. He has many years of practical political experience, having lost and won elections for local office in New Jersey, and led a county party organization in Iowa, organizing the county’s Iowa Caucuses for 2004.

Michael W. Habegger is an instructor and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at the University of Delaware and serves as the Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. His research lies at the intersection of democracy and the Internet, broadly, and social media practices and the concepts of subjectivity and the public sphere, specifically.