Comments on: Is This Your Brain on Politics? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/is_this_your_br.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/is_this_your_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-51582 Frank Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:11:01 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/is-this-your-brain-on-politics.html#comment-51582 Farah's comments are very perceptive. What really disappoints me is that Kathleen Hall Jamieson took part in the study. Her book Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy is one of the most perceptive critiques of personality-driven campaigns in the poli sci literature. Has she now gone over to the dark side--indulging in marketing-driven inquiries about the "gut feelings" candidates inspire? The whole point of Dirty Politics was to point out how useless these types of visceral reactions are to democratic politics. Farah’s comments are very perceptive.

What really disappoints me is that Kathleen Hall Jamieson took part in the study. Her book Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy is one of the most perceptive critiques of personality-driven campaigns in the poli sci literature. Has she now gone over to the dark side–indulging in marketing-driven inquiries about the “gut feelings” candidates inspire? The whole point of Dirty Politics was to point out how useless these types of visceral reactions are to democratic politics.

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