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Informationen zum Autor Richard Lau is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Study of Democracy in the Political Science Department at Rutgers University. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation. He has published in all of the major journals in political science and social psychology, and recently wrote (with Gerald Pomper) Negative Campaigning: An Analysis of U.S. Senate Elections (2004). David P. Redlawsk is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. Prior to completing his Ph.D. and arriving at the University of Iowa in 1999, Redlawsk spent nearly ten years in the technology industry, managing information systems for colleges, and working as a management consultant. As a political scientist, he has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Political Psychology, among others. He twice received the Roberta Sigel Best Paper Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. He co-edited Hate Speech on Campus: Cases, Commentary, and Case Studies (1997) with Milton Heumann and Thomas Church, and is currently completing an edited volume on emotion in politics to be published in 2006. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Zusammenfassung This 2006 book proposes a new framework for studying voter decision making. An innovative experimental methodology is presented for getting 'inside the heads' of citizens as they confront the overwhelming rush of information during modern presidential election campaigns. Four broad types of decision strategies are described. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Theory and Methods: 1. Introduction; 2. A new theory of voter decision making; 3. Studying voting as a process; 4. What is correct voting?; Part II. Information Processing: 5. What voters do - a first cut; 6. Individual differences in information processing; 7. Campaign effects on information processing; Part III. Politics: 8. Evaluating candidates; 9. Voting; 10. Voting correctly; 11. Political heuristics; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. A look back, and a look forward; Part V. Appendices and References....
