The first textbook to present a framework of the Behavioral Political Science paradigm for understanding political decision-making.

Alex Mintz is Former Provost and Director of the Program on Political Psychology and Decision Making (POPDM) at IDC Herzliya in Israel.

1. Living in interesting times: How can behavioral political science help us understand the current political moment?; 2. The rational actor model of political decision making; 3. The limits of human processing: Bounded rationality, heuristics and biases; 4. What you say may matter less than how you say it: The role of framing in political communication effects; 5. The limitations of the unitary actor model of government; 6. Feeling politics: How emotions impact attitudes and behavior; 7. The origins of political preferences: Material self-interest or personality, moral values and group attitudes?; 8. Better to be right or to belong? Motivated reasoning in politics; 9. Looking forward: How behavioral political science can help policymakers.