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The Politics of Denial
2016
Overview
In this society, we tend to assume that a person’s political attitudes are the result of rational reflection on the issues. In their textbook on public opinion, political scientists Jerry Yeric and John Todd (1989) argue that attitudes represent people’s emotional response to particular objects or events and are “derived from the individual’s belief system” (p. 29). In other words, the way we feel about, for example, a presidential candidate, is determined by what we believe to be true about him or her and about the qualities we think a candidate should have. This approach overlooks, however, the possibilities that
