This anthology focuses on the behavioral study of political ideology and its connection to public policy formulation. The public policy implications of ideology, largely ignored by textbooks on ideology, have never been the purview of a single scholarly community. Instead, this area encompasses several specialties of political science, public administration, and economics. Across these disciplines the behavioral study of political ideology appears fragmented. This book is intended to pull these pieces together by showing the role of ideology in policy formulation and demonstrating methods by which the ideology-public policy relationship can be studied.

Contributions by: William G. Jacoby, Jeffrey Levine, Edward G. Carmines, Robert Huckfeldt, Jonathan Knuckey, Joseph Kalt, Mark A. Zupan, Barry Burden, Gregory A. Caldeira, Tim Groseclose, Mark J. Wattier, Raymond Tatalovich, David A. Rochefort, Roger W.Cobb, John C. Whitaker