Research Catalog

Title

Experimental foundations of political science / edited by Donald R. Kinder and Thomas R. Palfrey.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Kinder, Donald R.
• Palfrey, Thomas R., 1953-

Description

ix, 498 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Michigan studies in political analysis

Uniform Title

Michigan studies in political analysis.

Subjects

• Science politique > Recherche
• Politieke wetenschappen
• Methodologie
• Science politique > Méthodologie
• Political science > Research
• Political science > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

On Behalf of an Experimental Political Science / Donald R. Kinder and Thomas R. Palfrey -- 1. The Meaning and Measurement of Public Opinion -- Coming to Grips with the Holy Ghost / Donald R. Kinder -- Survey-Based Experiments on White Racial Attitudes toward Residential Integration / Howard Schuman and Lawrence Bobo -- Ideological Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New Findings / John L. Sullivan, James E. Piereson and George E. Marcus -- A Partisan Schema for Political Information Processing / Milton Lodge and Ruth Hamill -- 2. Political Choice -- Rational and Not-So-Rational Processes in Judgment and Choice / Donald R. Kinder -- Keeping the Voter's Limits in Mind: A Cognitive Process Analysis of Decision-Making in Voting / John A. Herstein -- Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice / George A. Quattrone and Amos Tversky -- Coping With Complexity: An Experimental Study of Public Policy Decision-Making / Janet A. Weiss -- 3. Collective Action -- The Conflict between Private Incentives and the Common Good / Thomas R. Palfrey -- An Experimental Examination of Auction Mechanisms for Discrete Public Goods / John A. Ferejohn, Robert Forsythe, Roger G. Noll and Thomas R. Palfrey -- Organizing Groups for Collective Action / Robyn M. Dawes, John M. Orbell, Randy T. Simmons and Alphons J. C. van de Kragt -- Divergent Evidence on Free Riding: An Experimental Examination of Possible Explanations / R. Mark Isaac, James M. Walker and Susan H. Thomas -- 4. Information and Democracy -- Signal and Noise in Democratic Conversation / Thomas R. Palfrey and Donald R. Kinder -- Experimental Demonstrations of the "Not-So-Minimal" Consequences of Television News Programs / Shanto Iyengar, Mark D. Peters and Donald R. Kinder -- Information and Elections: Retrospective Voting and Rational Expectations / Richard D. McKelvey and Peter C. Ordeshook -- Baby Books and Ballots: The Impact of Congressional Mail on Constituent Opinion / Albert D. Cover and Bruce S. Brumberg -- 5. Institutional Rules and Procedures -- Agendas and Decisions in Government / Thomas R. Palfrey -- Committee Decisions under Majority Rule: An Experimental Study / Morris P. Fiorina and Charles R. Plott -- Bureaucratic Agenda Control: Imposition or Bargaining? / Cheryl L. Eavey and Gary J. Miller -- Agenda Influence and Its Implications / Michael E. Levine and Charles R. Plott.

ISBN

• 0472102737 (alk. paper)
• 9780472102730 (alk. paper)
• 0472081810 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 9780472081813 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 92032727
• 99938657848

OCLC

• 26548118
• ocm26548118\

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries