Title Rationality of irrationality : political determinants and effects of party position blurring / Kyung Joon Han.

Publication Info.	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
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Summary	"Citizens in democracies complain that political parties' positions on major issues are too ambiguous for them to confidently understand. Why is party position ambiguity so common? Are party positions ambiguous because political parties fail in forming a clear policy position or because they deliberately blur their position? Rationality of Irrationality argues that political parties are motivated to strategically blur their position on an issue when they struggle with a certain disadvantage in the issue. Specifically, political parties present an ambiguous position when their own supporters are divided in their stances on the issue. A political party also blurs a position stance when voters do not acknowledge that the party has ability and integrity to solve problems related to the issue. Political parties blur their position in these cases because ambiguous party positions divert voters' attention from the issue. Voters support a political party whose policy positions on major issues are close to their own stances. However, voters cannot confidently and exactly estimate party positions on an issue when they are only ambiguous"-- Provided by publisher.
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Note	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Subject	Political parties -- Platforms.
	Political party rules.
	Political psychology.
	Right and left (Political science)
	Political parties -- Europe, Western.
	Political parties -- United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European.
	Political parties. (OCoLC)fst01069410
	Political party rules. (OCoLC)fst01736038
	Political psychology. (OCoLC)fst01069667
	Right and left (Political science) (OCoLC)fst01097849
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Western Europe. (OCoLC)fst01272478
Genre/Form	Political platforms. (OCoLC)fst01423827
Added Author	Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Added Title	Political determinants and effects of party position blurring
Other Form:	Print version: Han, Kyung Joon, 1973- Rationality of irrationality Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022 9780472075539 (DLC) 2022021307
ISBN	9780472902910 (electronic book other)
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.11989496 doi

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