TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruter,Michael
AU  - Harrison,Sarah
TI  - Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology 
SN  - 9780691182896
AV  - JF1001 .B746 2020eb
U1  - 324.01/9 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Elections
KW  - Harrison, Sarah
KW  - 1982-
KW  - author
KW  - Voting
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Election Day
KW  - Homo suffragator
KW  - appropriation
KW  - ballot
KW  - choice
KW  - democratic citizen, voter physiology
KW  - democratic closure
KW  - dependent variables
KW  - electoral habits
KW  - electoral outcome
KW  - electorate
KW  - hope
KW  - individual-societal psarojection
KW  - participation
KW  - partisan identification
KW  - partisanship
KW  - projected efficacy
KW  - reconciliation
KW  - resolution
KW  - societal projection
KW  - voting
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Chapter Synopses --; 1 Homo Suffragator --; 2 Mapping the Mind of a Voter: Anatomy of Homo Suffragator --; 3 A Day in the Life of a Voter --; 4 Personality and Morality --; 5 Electoral Memory --; 6 Electoral Identity and Individual– Societal Dynamics --; 7 Elections and Emotions --; 8 Electoral Ergonomics --; 9 Electoral Resolution and Atmosphere: From Hope to Hostility --; 10 Coda: Flipping the Electoral World Upside-Down: Homo Suffragator beyond the Age of Reason --; Glossary of Concepts --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - An in-depth look into the psychology of voters around the world, how voters shape elections, and how elections transform citizens and affect their livesCould understanding whether elections make people happy and bring them closure matter more than who they vote for? What if people did not vote for what they want but for what they believe is right based on roles they implicitly assume? Do elections make people cry? This book invites readers on a unique journey inside the mind of a voter using unprecedented data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa, and Georgia throughout a period when the world evolved from the centrist dominance of Obama and Mandela to the shock victories of Brexit and Trump. Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison explore three interrelated aspects of the heart and mind of voters: the psychological bases of their behavior, how they experience elections and the emotions this entails, and how and when elections bring democratic resolution. The authors examine unique concepts including electoral identity, atmosphere, ergonomics, and hostility.From filming the shadow of voters in the polling booth, to panel study surveys, election diaries, and interviews, Bruter and Harrison unveil insights into the conscious and subconscious sides of citizens’ psychology throughout a unique decade for electoral democracy. They highlight how citizens’ personality, memory, and identity affect their vote and experience of elections, when elections generate hope or hopelessness, and how subtle differences in electoral arrangements interact with voters’ psychology to trigger different emotions.Inside the Mind of a Voter radically shifts electoral science, moving away from implicitly institution-centric visions of behavior to understand elections from the point of view of voters
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691202013?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691202013
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691202013/original
ER  -