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Hypocrisy in American Political Attitudes

A Defense of Attitudinal Incongruence

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Authors:
  1. Timothy P. Collins

    1. Political Science, St. Olaf College, Northfield, USA

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  • Offers a unified approach to looking at types of attitudinal hypocrisy in political attitudes and the origins of each
  • Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates political science, psychology, and American history to answer questions not addressed by previous scholarship
  • Provides a counterintuitive defense of hypocrisy by demonstrating the universality of in in political attitudes and, subsequently, removing its negative stigma

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 1-15

  3. What Is Attitudinal Hypocrisy and Why Does It Matter?

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 17-55

  4. Psychological Dispositions, Political Orientations, and a Theoretical Framework of Ideological Differences in Attitudinal Hypocrisy

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 57-118

  5. Gay Is the New Black (but Black Is Still Black): The History and Current Trends of Attitudinal Hypocrisy

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 119-157

  6. Analyzing and Predicting Hypocrisy in the Electorate

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 159-246

  7. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Using Cognitive Dissonance to Explore Attitudinal Hypocrisy

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 247-288

  8. What Good Is Cake If You Can’t Eat It? Prescriptions for and Conclusions About American Attitudinal Hypocrisy

    • Timothy P. Collins
    Pages 289-315

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 317-373
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About this book

This book illuminates, and ultimately defends, attitudinal hypocrisy within the personal politics of Americans by utilizing statistical analyses within political history, social psychology, public opinion, and political science. Within a simple and parsimonious model of political attitudes, along with a novel method of calculating and operationalizing what attitudinal hypocrisy is, the book argues that the wielding of conflicting attitudes is a necessary characteristic of the American electorate. It uses an innovative multidisciplinary approach to answer some of the most pervasive questions in American politics: Why do conservatives preach the value of economic libertarianism, but decry the lack of government involvement in social issues and the military? Why do liberals extol the virtues of a regulatory economic state, but not a cultural or military state?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Political Science, St. Olaf College, Northfield, USA

    Timothy P. Collins

About the author

Timothy P. Collins is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Olaf College, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hypocrisy in American Political Attitudes

  • Book Subtitle: A Defense of Attitudinal Incongruence

  • Authors: Timothy P. Collins

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54012-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54011-5Published: 07 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85296-6Published: 12 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54012-2Published: 21 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 373

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: US Politics, Political Sociology, Applied Psychology

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