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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making

2-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: David P. Redlawsk

Provides cutting-edge analysis of the key topics, questions, and findings in comprehensive literature reviews.
The articles, by leading authorities in the field, are written to be accessible to both a scholarly audience as well as to those outside the academy, including professionals at think tanks and in policymaking communities.
Articles are published both in print and online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, a living reference resource.
All articles are commissioned under the editorial leadership of international experts of the highest caliber and are vetted through rigorous peer review.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making

2-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: David P. Redlawsk

A
Affective Intelligence and Emotional Dynamics in Voters' Decision Making Processes (Pavlos Vasilopoulos)
Agenda Setting in Political Decision Making (Jonathan Klüser and Marco Radojevic)
Agent-Based Modeling in Political Decision Making (Lin Qiu and Riyang Phang)
Ambivalence in Political Decision Making (Dane Warner and Jason Gainous)
Anger in Political Decision Making (Cengiz Erisen)
Anxiety, Fear, and Political Decision Making (Markus Wagner and Davide Morisi)
Arrow's Theorem (Conal Duddy and Ashley Piggins)
Associative Memory and Political Decision Making (Beth Vonnahme)
Attitudes Toward Women and the Influence of Gender on Political Decision Making (Mary-Kate Lizotte)
Automaticity in Political Decision Making (Efrén Pérez and Isaac Riddle)
The Availability Heuristic, Political Leaders, and Decision Making (Michael Cohen)

B
Bayesian Analyses of Political Decision Making (Kumail Wasif and Jeff Gill)
Behavioral Analysis in the Study of Politics: The Conflict Laboratory (Alessandro Del Ponte, Reuben Kline, and John Barry Ryan)
Behavioral Decision Theory (Kazuhisa Takemura)
The Biology of Political Decision Making (Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz and Seyoung Jung)
Bounded Rationality and Cognitive Limits in Political Decision Making (Brooke N. Shannon, Zachary A. McGee, and Bryan D. Jones)

C
Cognitive Complexity in Political Contexts (Shannon C. Houck, Kathleen J. Huber, Mackenzie Ess, and Morgan L. Proulx)
Competitive Framing in Political Decision Making (Dennis Chong)
Computational Models of Political Decision Making (Sung-youn Kim)
A Constructivist Approach to Online Political Information Processing (Dan Cassino)

D
Decision Strategies in Politics (Richard R. Lau)
Decision Support Systems (Sean B. Eom)
Deliberative Democracy and Political Decision Making (Jon Green, Jonathon Kingzette, and Michael Neblo)
Direct Democracy and Political Decision Making (Shaun Bowler, Reagan Dobbs, and Stephen Nicholson)
Discussion Networks in Political Decision Making (Ian Shapiro, Steven Richardson, Scott McClurg, and Anand Sokhey)
Dynamic Process Tracing Methods in the Study of Political Decision Making (Philip Chen)

E
The Economic Voter Decides (Mary Stegmaier, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, and Lincoln Brown)
Electoral Clientelism and Vote Buying (Anand Murugesan)
Emphasis Framing and Political Decision Making (Thomas E. Nelson)
Equivalency Framing in Political Decision Making (Asmus Olsen)
Evolution and Political Decision Making (Anthony C. Lopez)
Expected Utility and Political Decision Making (Jona Linde)

F
Fast and Frugal Heuristics (Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos)
Field Experiments on Political Behavior (Peter John)
Framing and Political Decision Making: An Overview (Zoe Oxley)
Framing Methodology: A Critical Review (Dustin Carnahan, Qi Hao, and Xiaodi Yan)

G
Gender Stereotyping in Political Decision Making (Nichole M. Bauer)
Genetics and Heritability Research on Political Decision Making (Levente Littvay)

H
Heuristics and Biases in Political Decision Making (Celine Colombo and Marco R. Steenbergen)
Hindsight Bias in Political Decision Making (Rüdiger F. Pohl and Edgar Erdfelder)
How Motivation Influences Political Decision Making (Brian J. Gaines and Benjamin R. Kantack)

I
Ideology and Values in Political Decision Making (Christopher Weber)
The Influence of Psychological Security Maintenance on Political Decision Making (Joshua Hart)
Information Aggregation in Political Decision Making (Francesco Squintani)
Information Overload: An Introduction (David Bawden and Lyn Robinson)
Intersectional Stereotyping in Political Decision Making (Erin C. Cassese)
Issue Salience and Political Decisions (Philip Moniz and Christopher Wlezien)

J
Judgment as the Imagination of Futures: Practical Rationality in Decisions on Complex Issues (Michael J. Mazarr)

L
Laboratory Versus Field Experiments in Political Decision Making Research (Aaron Hoffman)
Leaderless Group Decisions (Seong-Jae Min)
Lexicographic Decision Rule (Özgür Simsek)
Long- and Short-Term Memory Structure in Political Decision Making (James Jaccard)

M
Media-Effects Experiments in Political Decision Making (Bryan Gervais)
Moral Emotions in Political Decision Making (Eran Halperin and Noa Schori-Eyal)
Motivated Reasoning and Political Decision Making (Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm)

N
Nudging in Public Policy (Alice Moseley)

O
Outcomes of Political Decision Making (Marcus M. Weymiller and Christopher W. Larimer)

P
Partisan Identity and Political Decision Making (Alexa Bankert)
Partisanship and Political Cognition (Stephen N. Goggin, Stephanie A. Nail, and Alexander G. Theodoridis)
Poliheuristic Theory: A Middle Ground Between Rational and Cognitive Decision Theories (Alex Mintz and J. Tyson Chatagnier)
Political and Psychological Processes in Political Action (Martijn van Zomeren)
Political Neuroscience: Understanding How the Brain Makes Political Decisions (Ingrid J. Haas, Clarisse Warren, and Samantha J. Lauf)
The Politics of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Niek Mouter)
Priming in Political Judgment and Decision Making (Chadly Stern)
The Progress and Pitfalls of Using Survey Experiments in Political Science (Diana C. Mutz and Eunji Kim)
Prospect Theory and Political Decision Making (Ferdinand M. Vieider and Barbara Vis)
Prospect Theory, Loss Aversion, and Political Behavior (Francesco Passarelli and Alessandro Del Ponte)
Psychophysiology in Political Decision Making Research (Matthew V. Hibbing, Melissa N. Baker, and Kathryn A. Herzog)

Q
Q Methodology in Research on Political Decision Making (Steven R. Brown)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Discovering Core Combinations of Conditions in Political Decision Making (Benoît Rihoux)

R
Racial Prejudice, Racial Identity, and Attitudes in Political Decision Making (Ashley Jardina and Spencer Piston)
Racial Stereotyping in Political Decision Making (Ray Block Jr.)
Rational Choice Theory Overview (Scott H. Ainsworth)
The Representativeness Heuristic in Political Decision Making (Sjoerd Stolwijk)

S
Satisficing in Political Decision Making (Daniel Stevens)
The Search for Real-World Media Effects on Political Decision Making (Thomas J. Leeper)
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Political Decision Making (Ewa A. Golebiowska)
Social Identity in Decisions to Protest (Bert Klandermans and J. van Stekelenburg)
Social Media Lessons on the Nature of Political Decision Making (Douglas R. Pierce)
The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and Political Life (Marco Verweij and Antonio Damasio)
A Somatic Marker Perspective of Political Decision Making (Xavier Noël, Nematolla Jaafari, and Antoine Bechara)
Stereotype Measurement in Political Decision Making (Angela L. Bos, Heather Madonia, and Monica C. Schneider)
Stereotyping and Political Decision Making (Bettina Spencer)
Strategic Voting Versus Sincere Voting (Damien Bol and Tom Verthé)
Studying Political Decision Making With Automatic Text Analysis (Wouter van Atteveldt, Kasper Welbers, and Mariken van der Velden)
The Study of Discrete Emotions in Politics (Cigdem V. Sirin and José D. Villalobos)
Sunk Costs and Political Decision Making (Charles A. Miller)
A Survey Researcher's Many Decisions (Ashley Koning)

U
Using Online Experiments to Study Political Decision Making (Yotam Shmargad and Samara Klar)

V
Values and Public Opinion (Paul Goren)
Voter Information Processing and Political Decision Making (Alessandro Nai)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making

2-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: David P. Redlawsk

Author Information

David P. Redlawsk is the James R. Soles Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is a former President of the International Society of Political Psychology (2018-2019), where he previously served as a Vice President and Governing Council member. He was a co-editor of the journal Political Psychology from 2010 through 2015. From 2009 to 2016, he was Director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University. Dr. Redlawsk is author, co-author, or editor of nine books and has published more than 50 articles and book chapters. His research focuses on campaigns, elections, the role of information in voter decision making, and emotional responses to campaign information. He has received several grants to support his research from the National Science Foundation and other agencies, and served on the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Studies from 2009 to 2013.

Contributors:

Scott H. Ainsworth
School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia

Melissa N. Baker
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Alexa Bankert
Department of Political Science, University of Georgia

Nichole M. Bauer
Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University

David Bawden
Department of Library and Information Science, City University London

Antoine Bechara
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Dornsife

Ray Block Jr.
Department of Political Science and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Damien Bol
Department of Political Economy, King's College London

Toby Bolsen
Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

Angela L. Bos
Department of Political Science, College of Wooster

Shaun Bowler
Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

Lincoln Brown
Department of Political Science, University of Missouri

Steven R. Brown
Department of Political Science and Evaluation and Measurement, Kent State University

Dustin Carnahan
Department of Communication, Michigan State University

Erin C. Cassese
Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware

Dan Cassino
Department of Political Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University

J. Tyson Chatagnier
Department of Political Science, University of Houston

Philip Chen
Department of Political Science, Beloit College

Dennis Chong
Department of Political Science, University of Southern California

Michael Cohen
National Security College, Australian National University

Celine Colombo
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich

Antonio Damasio
Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California

Alessandro Del Ponte
Global Asia Institute, National University of Singapore

Reagan Dobbs
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Conal Duddy
Department of Economics, University College Cork

Sean B. Eom
Department of Management, Southeast Missouri State

Edgar Erdfelder
Department of Psychology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Cengiz Erisen
Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yeditepe University

Mackenzie Ess
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University

Brian J. Gaines
Department of Political Science, University of Illinois

Jason Gainous
Department of Political Science, University of Louisville

Bryan Gervais
Department of Political Science and Geography, University of Texas, San Antonio

Jeff Gill
Department of Government, American University

Stephen N. Goggin
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Ewa A. Golebiowska
Department of Political Science, Wayne State University

Paul Goren
Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Jon Green
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University

Ingrid J. Haas
Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Eran Halperin
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Qi Hao
Department of Communication, Michigan State University

Joshua Hart
Department of Psychology, Union College

Kathryn A. Herzog
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Matthew V. Hibbing
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Aaron Hoffman
Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

Shannon C. Houck
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University

Kathleen J. Huber
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University

James Jaccard
Silver School of Social Work, New York University

Nematolla Jaafari
Department of Psychiatry, University of Poitiers

Ashley Jardina
Department of Political Science, Duke University

Peter John
Department of Political Science, University College London

Bryan D. Jones
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin

Seyoung Jung
Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Benjamin R. Kantack
Department of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College

Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos
Southampton Business School, University of Southampton

Eunji Kim
Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Sung-youn Kim
Department of Political Science, Konkuk University

Jonathon Kingzette
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University

Bert Klandermans
Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Samara Klar
School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Reuben Kline
Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University

K. Jonathan Klüser
Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Ashley Koning
Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University

Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz
Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Christopher W. Larimer
Department of Political Science, University of Northern Iowa

Richard R. Lau
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University

Samantha J. Lauf
Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Thomas J. Leeper
Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Department of Political Science, University of Iowa

Jona Linde
Department of Economics, Maastricht University

Levente Littvay
Department of Political Science, Central European University

Mary-Kate Lizotte
Department of Social Sciences, Augusta University

Anthony C. Lopez
Department of Political Science, Washington State University

Heather Madonia
Independent Scholar

Michael J. Mazarr
RAND Corporation

Scott McClurg
Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University

Zachary A. McGee
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin

Charles A. Miller
Department of Political Science, Australian National University

Seong-Jae Min
Department of Communication, Pace University

Alex Mintz
Lauder School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Philip Moniz
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin

Davide Morisi
Department of Political Science, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Alice Moseley
Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Niek Mouter
Department of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology

Anand Murugesan
School of Public Policy, Central European University

Diana C. Mutz
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Alessandro Nai
Department of Political Communication and Journalism, University of Amsterdam

Stephanie A. Nail
Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Michael Neblo
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University

Thomas E. Nelson
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University

Stephen Nicholson
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Xavier Noël
Laboratory of Medical Psychology and Addiction, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Asmus Olsen
Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

Zoe Oxley
Department of Political Science, Union College

Risa Palm
Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University

Francesco Passarelli
Department of Economics, University of Turin

Efrén Pérez
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Riyang Phang
School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, American University of Central Asia

Douglas R. Pierce
Department of Political Science, California Polytechnic State University

Ashley Piggins
J. E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway

Spencer Piston
Department of Political Science, Boston University

Rüdiger F. Pohl
Department of Psychology, Universität Mannheim

Morgan L. Proulx
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University

Lin Qiu
Department of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University

Marco Radojevic
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich

Steven Richardson
Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Isaac Riddle
Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Benoît Rihoux
School of Political and Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain

Lyn Robinson
Department of Library and Information Science, City University of London

John Barry Ryan
Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University

Monica C. Schneider
Department of Political Science, Miami University

Noa Schori-Eyal
School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Brooke N. Shannon
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin

Ian Shapiro
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Yotam Shmargad
School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Özgür Simsek
Department of Computer Science, University of Bath

Cigdem V. Sirin
Department of Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso

Anand Sokhey
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Bettina Spencer
Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's College

Francesco Squintani
Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Marco R. Steenbergen
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich

Mary Stegmaier
Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri

Chadly Stern
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois

Daniel Stevens
Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Sjoerd Stolwijk
NPO, Hilversum, the Netherlands

Kazuhisa Takemura
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Waseda University

Alexander G. Theodoridis
Department of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Wouter van Atteveldt
Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Mariken van der Velden
Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

J. van Stekelenburg
Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Martijn van Zomeren
Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen

Pavlos Vasilopoulos
Department of Politics, University of York

Tom Verthé
Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Center for Local Politics, Ghent University

Marco Verweij
Department of Political Science, Jacobs University

Ferdinand M. Vieider
Department of Economics, Ghent University

José D. Villalobos
Department of Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso

Barbara Vis
School of Governance, Utrecht University

Beth Vonnahme
Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Markus Wagner
Department of Government, University of Vienna

Dane Warner
Department of Political Science, University of Louisville

Clarisse Warren
Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Kumail Wasif
School of Public Affairs, American University

Christopher Weber
School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Kasper Welbers
Department of Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Marcus M. Weymiller
Department of Political Science, University of Northern Iowa

Christopher Wlezien
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin

Xiaodi Yan
Department of Communication, Michigan State University