TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han,Kyung Joon
ED  - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Rationality of Irrationality : : Political Determinants and Effects of Party Position Blurring / 
SN  - 9780472902910
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - fast
KW  - Political psychology
KW  - Political party rules
KW  - Political parties
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
KW  - Psychologie politique
KW  - United States
KW  - Europe, Western
KW  - Platforms
KW  - Western Europe
KW  - Political platforms
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/103010/
ER  -