Hypocrisy in American Political Attitudes A Defense of Attitudinal Incongruence /

• Main Author: Collins, Timothy P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Political sociology.; Psychology, Applied.; US Politics.; Political Sociology.; Applied Psychology.

This book illuminates, and ultimately defends, attitudinal hypocrisy within the personal politics of Americans by utilizing statistical analyses within political history, social psychology, public opinion, and political science. Within a simple and parsimonious model of political attitudes, along wi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. What Is Political Hypocrisy and Why Does it Matter?
• 2.Psychological Dispositions, Political Orientations, and a Theoretical Framework of Ideological Differences in Attitudinal Hypocrisy
• 3. Gay Is the New Black (But Black Is Still Black): The History and Current Trends of Attitudinal Hypocrisy
• 4. Analyzing and Predicting Hypocrisy in the Electorate
• 5. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Using Cognitive Dissonance to Explore Attitudinal Hypocrisy
• 6. What Good Is Cake If You Can't Eat It?: Prescriptions for and Conclusions About American Attitudinal Hypocrisy. .