Author : Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521407700
A major new theoretical explanation of how ordinary people decide what to favour and what to oppose politically.
Author : Willem E. Saris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691119038
Building on and reaching beyond themes in the work of Philip Converse, one of the pioneers in the study of public opinion, Studies in Public Opinion brings together a group of leading American and European social scientists to explore a number of new factors, with a particular emphasis on the structure of political choices. In twelve chapters that reflect different perspectives on how people form political opinions and how these opinions are manipulated, this book offers an unparalleled view of the state-of-the-art research on these important questions as it has developed on two continents.
Author : Andrés Perea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107008913
The first textbook to explain the principles of epistemic game theory.
Author : Samuel L. Popkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022677287X
The Reasoning Voter is an insider's look at campaigns, candidates, media, and voters that convincingly argues that voters make informed logical choices. Samuel L. Popkin analyzes three primary campaigns—Carter in 1976; Bush and Reagan in 1980; and Hart, Mondale, and Jackson in 1984—to arrive at a new model of the way voters sort through commercials and sound bites to choose a candidate. Drawing on insights from economics and cognitive psychology, he convincingly demonstrates that, as trivial as campaigns often appear, they provide voters with a surprising amount of information on a candidate's views and skills. For all their shortcomings, campaigns do matter. "Professor Popkin has brought V.O. Key's contention that voters are rational into the media age. This book is a useful rebuttal to the cynical view that politics is a wholly contrived business, in which unscrupulous operatives manipulate the emotions of distrustful but gullible citizens. The reality, he shows, is both more complex and more hopeful than that."—David S. Broder, The Washington Post
Author : Max Kanat-Alexander
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1449334695
Good software design is simple and easy to understand. Unfortunately, the average computer program today is so complex that no one could possibly comprehend how all the code works. This concise guide helps you understand the fundamentals of good design through scientific laws—principles you can apply to any programming language or project from here to eternity. Whether you’re a junior programmer, senior software engineer, or non-technical manager, you’ll learn how to create a sound plan for your software project, and make better decisions about the pattern and structure of your system. Discover why good software design has become the missing science Understand the ultimate purpose of software and the goals of good design Determine the value of your design now and in the future Examine real-world examples that demonstrate how a system changes over time Create designs that allow for the most change in the environment with the least change in the software Make easier changes in the future by keeping your code simpler now Gain better knowledge of your software’s behavior with more accurate tests
Author : Hans Rott
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780198503064
This work develops logical theories necessary to understand adaptable human reasoning & the design ofintelligent systems. It unifies lively & significant strands of research in logic, philosophy, economics & artificial intelligence.
Author : Christopher McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2001-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521011785
"This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what people can accomplish by reasoning together, of the role of deliberation in democratic decision making, and of the negotiation of the proper use of concepts. Presenting for the first time a detailed analysis of the general problem of cooperation and collective reasoning between people with different moral commitments, this book will be of particular interest to philosophers of the social sciences and to students in political science, sociology and economics." --Cambridge Press.
Author : Jacqueline P. Leighton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521009287
We are bombarded with information - press releases, television news, Internet websites, and office memos, just to name a few - on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that may or need to be inferred from such information are typically not provided. We must draw the conclusions by ourselves. How do we draw these conclusions? This book addresses how we reason to reach sensible conclusions. The purpose of this book is to organize in one volume what is known about reasoning, such as its structural prerequisites, its mechanisms, its susceptibility to pragmatic influences, its pitfalls, and the bases for its development. Given that reasoning underlies so many of our intellectual activities - when we learn, criticize, analyze, judge, infer, evaluate, optimize, apply, discover, imagine, devise, and create - we stand to gain a great deal if we can learn to define, operate, apply, and nurture our reasoning.
Author : Andrew Light
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262621649
Essays showing how environmental philosophy can have an impact on the world by integrating abstract reasoning with actual environmental practice.
Author : Friedrich V. Kratochwil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521409711
This book assesses the impact of norms on decision-making. It argues that norms influence choices not by being causes for actions, but by providing reasons. Consequently it approaches the problem via an investigation of the reasoning process in which norms play a decisive role. Kratochwil argues that, depending upon the strictness the guidance norms provide in arriving at a decision, different styles of reasoning with norms can be distinguished. While the focus in this book is largely analytical, the argument is developed through the interpretation of the classic thinkers in international law (Grotius, Vattel, Pufendorf, Rousseau, Hume, Habermas).
