POLI 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Professor X, Comefrom
16 Sep 2019
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We don"t grade their objectives, just whether their votes match their objectives. We model two major kinds of heuristics: cue-taking and retrospective voting. Cues can be taken from more than one person or group. Retrospective voting - you need to know who you voted for previously and how the world has changed (this is a really hard subject) Both of these require some cheap information. Competence gap - people may vote democrat more often if they were more knowledgeable (very controversial and open to skepticism) The rubublican party tends to get misjudged more. Campaigns attempt to persuade voters by providing information for their heuristics. President x is fighting a war on your values. Things are going good, so you should vote to keep things the way they are going. Campaigns do not make most americans more informed on the issues. Campaigns see voters as choosing to vote for a representative because: They approve/disapprove of how things are going.
