Understanding Policy Attitudes: Effects of Affective Source Cues on Political Reasoning

Lenka Hrbková

• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9788021080560
• eBook ISBN: 9788021084520
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

How do citizens form their political attitudes? How do political actors influence people's political views in their everyday lives? Do people's feelings towards political parties and politicians influence the public opinion? The book presents a series of laboratory experiments focused on the formation processes of citizens' attitudes to political issues in the context of their emotional attachments to political actors. The research puts emphasis on negativity and negative feelings of citizens towards political actors and shows that this type of negative attachment influences the way people think about political issues. Since the experimental method is a newcomer in the field of Czech political science, the volume's ambition is also to introduce experiments as a relevant and useful tool for extending knowledge of substantial political processes and phenomena.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. EXPERIMENTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
• 2. INFORMATION PROCESSING AND HEURISTICS
• 3. EMOTION IN POLITICS AND AFFECTIVE CUES
• 4. AFFECTIVE SOURCE CUES IN SINGLE PARTY CUE EXPERIMENTS
• 5. CUE-TAKING: HEURISTICAL THINKING OR MOTIVATED REASONING?
• 6. CONCLUSION
• 7. APPENDICES
• 8. REFERENCES
• LIST OF TABLES
• LIST OF FIGURES
• INDEX