Description: The Reasoning VoterCommunication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns Author(s): Samuel L. Popkin Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226675459, 978-0226675459 Synopsis The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns-Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984-to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on insights from economics and cognitive psychology, he convincingly demonstrates that, as trivial as campaigns often appear, they provide voters with a surprising amount of information on a candidate's views and skills. For all their shortcomings, campaigns do matter. "If you're preparing to run a presidential campaign, and only have time to read one book, make sure to read Sam Popkin's The Reasoning Voter. If you have time to read two books, read The Reasoning Voter twice."-James Carville, Senior Stategist, Clinton/Gore '92 "A fresh and subtle analysis of voter behavior."-Thomas Byrne Edsall, New York Review of Books "Professor Popkin has brought [url] Key's contention that voters are rational into the media age. This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens. The reality, he shows, is both more complex and more hopeful than that."-David S. Broder, The Washington Post
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Book Title: The Reasoning Voter
Number of Pages: 332 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1994
Subject: Politics
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Weight: 494 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Samuel L. Popkin
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
