{"id":2052,"date":"2017-01-30T19:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T03:37:15","slug":"voting-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/voting-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is too difficult and time-consuming to make a &#8220;fully rational&#8221; voting decision, so we use heuristics (&#8220;rules of thumb&#8221;).\u00a0In particular, we use:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nature of the times heuristic: When times are good, you vote for continuity. When times are bad, you vote for change.<\/p>\n<p>The identification heuristic: You are more likely to vote for people you identify emotionally with, with people who, you sense, \u201cget you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caracaschronicles.com\/2007\/11\/24\/two-heuristics-that-swing-elections\/\">Francisco Toro<\/a> (via Evangeline White)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is too difficult and time-consuming to make a &#8220;fully rational&#8221; voting decision, so we use heuristics (&#8220;rules of thumb&#8221;).\u00a0In particular, we use: The nature of the times heuristic: When times are good, you vote for continuity. When times are bad, you vote for change. The identification heuristic: You are more likely to vote for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/voting-behavior\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voting behavior&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}