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Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.

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List of Figures Preface Introduction: A Nonmarginalist Approach for Political Science Pt. 1: The Paradox of Temporal Political Choice 1: Attention and Agendas in Politics 2: Rationality in Political Choice 3: Attention and Temporal Choice in Politics 4: A Change of Mind or a Change of Focus? 5: Raising and Focusing Attention in the Mass Public Pt. 2: The Paradox of Issue Evolution 6: Macropolitics: Is Political Conflict Recurrent? 7: Policy Subsystems and the Processing of Issues 8: The Serial Policy Shift 9: Governments as Adaptive Systems 10: Political Choice and Democratic Governance Appendix: Spatial Choice Theory and Attentional Dynamics Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226406503, 978-0226406503
      ISBN10: 0226406504
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      Book Synopsis
      Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Preface Introduction: A Nonmarginalist Approach for Political Science Pt. 1: The Paradox of Temporal Political Choice 1: Attention and Agendas in Politics 2: Rationality in Political Choice 3: Attention and Temporal Choice in Politics 4: A Change of Mind or a Change of Focus? 5: Raising and Focusing Attention in the Mass Public Pt. 2: The Paradox of Issue Evolution 6: Macropolitics: Is Political Conflict Recurrent? 7: Policy Subsystems and the Processing of Issues 8: The Serial Policy Shift 9: Governments as Adaptive Systems 10: Political Choice and Democratic Governance Appendix: Spatial Choice Theory and Attentional Dynamics Bibliography Index

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