Understanding Policy Attitudes: Effects of Affective Source Cues on Political Reasoning
Understanding Policy Attitudes: Effects of Affective Source Cues on Political Reasoning

Author(s): Lenka Hrbková
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Civil Society, Governance, Sociology, Politics and society, Social psychology and group interaction, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Citizens; political attitude; politics; people’s political views; everyday life; political issues; political sciences;
Summary/Abstract: How do citizens form their political attitudes? How do political actors influence people’s political views in their everyday lives? Do people’s feelings towards political parties and politicians influence the public opinion? The book presents a series of laboratory experiments focused on the formation processes of citizens’ attitudes to political issues in the context of their emotional attachments to political actors. The research puts emphasis on negativity and negative feelings of citizens towards political actors and shows that this type of negative attachment influences the way people think about political issues. Since the experimental method is a newcomer in the field of Czech political science, the volume’s ambition is also to introduce experiments as a relevant and useful tool for extending knowledge of substantial political processes and phenomena.

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