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Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments

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ID6233031
AuthorsJames N Druckman (0000-0002-1249-6790, Northwestern University), Arthur Lupia (0000-0003-3220-1125, University of Michigan)
Year2016
Volume19
Issue1
Pages13-31
Publication date2016-05-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-polisci-020614-095051
OpenAlexW1861167584
LanguageEN
Citations received68
References cited199

Political actions and outcomes depend on people's preferences over candidates, policies, and other politically relevant phenomena. For this reason, a great deal of political activity entails attempts to change other people's preferences. When do politically relevant preferences change? Addressing this question requires recognition of two realities: (a) Many stimuli compete for every person's attention, and (b) every person's capacity to pay attention to information is limited. With these realities in mind, we review research on preference change in competitive environments. We discuss how individuals allocate attention and how individuals' values and identities affect their use of the information to which they attend. We then discuss how this work has been applied to a new problem: improving the communication of scientific facts in increasingly politicized environments

Affect (linguistics · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Preference · Public relations · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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