Political science, voter choice and irrationality – Libby Jenke

Libby Jenke is a doctoral candidate in political science at Duke
University. She is a member of Scott Huettel's neuroscience
laboratory in Duke's Psychology and Neuroscience department.


Her article “Issues or Identity? Cognitive Foundations of Voter
Choice” in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences that was
published in 2016 discusses the problem of understanding the
choices voters are making. By explaining the already existing
theoretical models and their shortcomings, she also suggests a
new one that is more comprised of new directions of research in
both political science and cognitive science.


We talked on the day of the US election 2016 which makes this
interview even more interesting, particularly if you have in mind
what has happened since then.


How do you make choices as a voter? Are these choices purely
rational?


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