{"product_id":"reconceiving-decisionmaking-in-democratic-politics-attention-choice-and-public-policy-american-politics-political-economy-hardcover-9780226406503","title":"Reconceiving DecisionMaking in Democratic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036533948759,"sku":"9780226406503","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reconceiving-decisionmaking-in-democratic-politics-attention-choice-and-public-policy-american-politics-political-economy-hardcover-9780226406503","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}