The Ambivalent Partisan —— How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy

----- 各执己见的党派代言人：“批判性忠诚”是如何促进民主的？

ISBN: 9780199772759 出版年：2013 页码：319 Lavine, Howard G Johnston, Christopher D Steenbergen, Marco R Oxford University Press

How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are those judgments from a normative perspective? 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. Ambivalent partisans are those who experience a disjuncture between their political identities and their evaluations of party performance. Drawing on both experimental and survey methods -- as well as five decades of American political history -- the authors demonstrate that compared to other citizens, ambivalent partisans perceive the political world accurately, form their policy preferences in a principled manner, and communicate those preferences by making issues an important component of their electoral decisions.