The Influence of Partisan Motivated Reasoning on Public Opinion

2013/07/03 by Toby Bolsen, James N. Druckman, James Druckman +1 · 39 citations
Social Sciences · #Social Media and Politics #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Electoral Systems and Political Participation

paper · doi:10.1007/s11109-013-9238-0

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• An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy
• Affect, Not Ideology
• Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
• The case for motivated reasoning.

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