Important Links for 30:117 Political Decision Making

REQUIRED READINGS FROM THE SYLLABUS
(Note that most of these require you access them from a computer on the UI campus.)

Bendor & Hammond, Rethinking Allison's Models, American Political Science Review, 1992. (Feb 15) [on campus access only]

McKeown, Plans and Routines, Journal of Politics, 2001. (Feb 15) [on campus access only]

Paulos, Innumeracy, Chapter 2. (Feb 27)

Quattrone & Tversky, Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice, American Political Science Review, 1988. (Apr 3) [on campus access only]

Sniderman, Brody & Tetlock, Reasoning and Choice, Chapter 9 (April 24)

Lau & Redlawsk, Cognitive Heuristics Paper (April 26) [on campus access]

George Marcus, "The Psychology of Emotions and Politics," Oxford Handbook, pp. 182-221. (May 1)

Milton Lodge & Charles Taber, "First Steps toward a Dual Process Accessibility Model of Political Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior," in David Redlawsk (ed), Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Information Processing. (May 1)

Some interesting papers about individual decision-making can be found on the web.

For example, here's a summary of the state of decision making research in 1986, authored by Herbert Simon and colleagues from a rather unusual site. The same site also has a paper by Robert Hamm which gives a quick summation of problems people have with probabilistic inference.

You can also read the precis of an excellent book on heuristics and decision-making by researchers at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition in Germany.

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