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By Sean Richey,Sarah Brosnan,Ikeda Ken'ichi,J. Benjamin Taylor

Social networking fascinates students, pundits, and a thousand million fb clients; this e-book indicates that whom we all know has an enormous effect on our political opinions, activities, and skills. past scholarship has proven that networks are the most important to explaining every little thing from how debts get via Congress, why humans vote, how NGO’s turn into winning in constructing international locations, and masses extra. but an in-depth research of the social foundation of the rationality is lacking. To fill this void, The Social foundation of the Rational Citizen offers the 1st empirical research of an important hypothesized impact of social community impression on politics: social cognition. via new lab experiments and survey information, this e-book indicates that decision-making in teams promotes extra rational offerings and higher citizenship. hence, recommendation and studying derived from social community contacts are proven to be the root of decision-making for the rational citizen.

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