Inside the Mind of a Voter (eBook)

A New Approach to Electoral Psychology

Michael Bruter, Sarah Harrison (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20201-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their livesCould understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for? What if people did not vote for what they want but for what they believe is right based on roles they implicitly assume? Do elections make people cry? This book invites readers on a unique journey inside the mind of a voter using unprecedented data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa, and Georgia throughout a period when the world evolved from the centrist dominance of Obama and Mandela to the shock victories of Brexit and Trump. Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison explore three interrelated aspects of the heart and mind of voters: the psychological bases of their behavior, how they experience elections and the emotions this entails, and how and when elections bring democratic resolution. The authors examine unique concepts including electoral identity, atmosphere, ergonomics, and hostility.From filming the shadow of voters in the polling booth, to panel study surveys, election diaries, and interviews, Bruter and Harrison unveil insights into the conscious and subconscious sides of citizens' psychology throughout a unique decade for electoral democracy. They highlight how citizens' personality, memory, and identity affect their vote and experience of elections, when elections generate hope or hopelessness, and how subtle differences in electoral arrangements interact with voters' psychology to trigger different emotions.Inside the Mind of a Voter radically shifts electoral science, moving away from implicitly institution-centric visions of behavior to understand elections from the point of view of voters.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Absentee Ballot • abstention • Accountability • Adobe • Aggression • Altruism • Analogy • Appropriation • ballot • Case study • Centrality • Choice • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Compulsory Voting • content analysis • Cynicism (contemporary) • Decision-Making • Democracy • democratic citizen, voter physiology • democratic closure • dependent variables • Dialectic • Disgust • distrust • Egocentrism • Election • Election Day • Election Day (United States) • electoral habits • electoral outcome • Electorate • electronic voting • Emotionality • Empathy • Employment • Exclusion • extraversion and introversion • Extremism • Falling Walls • far-right politics • General Election • grandparent • Habituation • hatred • Homo suffragator • Hope • hostility • human behavior • human factors and ergonomics • Identity politics • Ideology • incumbent • individual-societal psarojection • Institution • Institutional Logic • Internalization • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology • left-wing politics • Logistic Regression • Longitudinal study • Methodology • Michigan Model • Morality • Motivation • Multi-Party System • narrative • Opinion Poll • optimism • Ownership (psychology) • Participation • partisan identification • partisanship • pessimism • Political Party • Political Psychology • Political Science • Political Sociology • Politician • Politics • Populism • postal voting • Prediction • Prioritization • projected efficacy • Psychology • Quasi-Experiment • questionnaire • Reconciliation • Referendum • Representative Democracy • Resolution • Respondent • result • right-wing politics • Risk Aversion • Scientist • Selfishness • Self-perception theory • Self-report study • societal projection • Sophistication • Split-ticket voting • spoiled child • Suggestion • Symptom • Tax • The American Voter • Their Lives • The Other Hand • Thought • Trade-off • Trait Theory • United States presidential election • University of Minnesota Press • Voting • Voting Behavior • Voting machine • voting system • vulnerability
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20201-X / 069120201X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20201-3 / 9780691202013