Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
PART ONE: CHOOSING AND VOTING
1. Voting: an Individual and Reasoned Choice
2. Human Decision Making and Heuristics of Judgment
3. Political Cognition, Sophistication, and Heuristics
PART II: THE COGNITIVE SHORTCUTS OF ITALIAN VOTERS
4. An Empirical Classification of Italian Voters
5. Who are Utilius, Amicus, Aliens and Medians?
6. Systematic and Effective Voting Heuristics
7. Heterogeneity of the decision making processes
8. Conclusions
References
Index
Delia Baldassarri is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University.
"This is a field-advancing study - the first to investigate
systematically the use of simplifying heuristics to cope with the
complexities of choice in a multi-party system. It is a rare
example of creativity that enlarges rather than rejects the
insights of previous research."
--Paul M. Sniderman, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public
Policy, Stanford University
"This important and original study speaks to important questions in
understanding voting behavior in Italy and beyond. For political
sociologists, it provides a powerful source of rethinking
conventional understandings grounded narrowly in demographic
impacts on voters. For comparative politics scholars and Italian
specialists, it brings state-of-the-art theories about voter
decision-making to a context where such research has been lacking.
A wonderful book."
--Jeff Manza, Professor of Sociology, New York University
"The 'reboot' of the Italian political system in the early 1990s
reconfigured the political landscape, and in doing so confronted
Italian voters with unfamiliar political actors and new political
alliances. Drawing on two election surveys conducted after this
transition, Baldassarri shows us how citizens were able to meet the
informational challenges posed by the new political order using
different and discrete choice-making strategies. Her analysis
importantly
extends the research on political heuristics beyond the usual
setting of American politics as she insightfully demonstrates that
one size does not fit all when it comes to models of voter
decision-making."
--Wendy Rahn, Professor of Political Science, University of
Minnesota
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