--- title: Political Behavior description: This area of study investigates how individual citizens and groups interact with politics. Learners will understand the psychological, social, and economic factors that influence political participation, public opinion, voting decisions, and civic engagement. category: social-sciences subcategory: political-science difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/political-behavior --- # Political Behavior This area of study investigates how individual citizens and groups interact with politics. Learners will understand the psychological, social, and economic factors that influence political participation, public opinion, voting decisions, and civic engagement. ## Available Resources 4 Books • 2 Courses • 1 Websites ## Podcasts ### 1. The Pollsters **Author:** Margie Omero & Kristen Soltis Anderson Politics. Policy. Polling. Pop Culture. Explore what America's thinking with two of the country's leading pollsters-the bipartisan team of Democrat Margie Omero and Republican Kristen Soltis Anderson. In this weekly podcast we take a fresh, friendly look at the numbers driving the week's biggest stories in news, politics, tech, entertainment and pop culture. Along with the occasional interview with pollsters, journalists, and other industry leaders, we'll lift the hood on the numbers revealing the hidden secrets of the public's mind. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.thepollsters.com **Tags:** polling, public-opinion, political-behavior, elections, survey-research ## Books ### 1. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion **Author:** Jonathan Haidt Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that moral judgments come from intuition first and reasoning second, and presents moral foundations theory to explain why liberals, conservatives and religious groups disagree. Readers gain a research-based framework for understanding political polarization and moral conflict. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** moral-psychology, moral-foundations-theory, political-polarization, social-intuitionism, religion ### 2. The American Voter **Author:** Angus Campbell, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, Donald E. Stokes The 1960 study that established the survey-based model of American electoral behavior, showing how party identification, issue attitudes, and candidate perception shape the vote. Foundational reading for anyone working with election survey data. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226092542?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, political-science ### 3. Get Out the Vote **Author:** Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber Field-experiment evidence on which voter mobilization tactics actually raise turnout, comparing door-to-door canvassing, phone banks, mail, and messaging by cost per additional vote. Readers learn to judge campaign tactics against randomized-trial results rather than folklore. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0815732678?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, political-science ### 4. The Reasoning Voter **Author:** Samuel L. Popkin Argues that voters use shortcuts like party labels, endorsements, and personal experience to make defensible choices with little political information. Draws on presidential primary campaigns to explain why low information does not imply irrational voting. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226675459?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, political-science ## Websites ### 1. pewresearch.org/politics Pew Research Center's Politics section provides nonpartisan public opinion polling and political analysis. It features polls, trend reports, datasets, and explainer articles on elections, partisan attitudes, demographics, and key policy issues. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://pewresearch.org/politics **Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, political-science ## Courses ### 1. Moral Foundations of Politics **Author:** Ian Shapiro Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro's lecture course on Enlightenment, utilitarian, Marxist, and social-contract answers to what makes a government legitimate. Students finish able to apply each tradition to contested questions about rights, distribution, and democracy. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics **Tags:** political-theory, political-legitimacy, social-contract, utilitarianism, marxism, democracy ### 2. Game Theory **Author:** Matthew O. Jackson, Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown Stanford and University of British Columbia course on the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction: normal and extensive form games, Nash equilibrium, mixed strategies, Bayesian games, and repeated and stochastic games. Learners can formalize strategic situations and solve them for equilibria. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1 **Tags:** game-theory, nash-equilibrium, extensive-form-games, bayesian-games, repeated-games --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/political-behavior