TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lakoff,George
TI  - The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain 
SN  - 9780143115687 (pbk)
AV  - JC 574.2 L192p 2009
U1  - 320.01 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Liberalismo
KW  - Conservatismo
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Cultura política
KW  - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion
N1  - Introduction : brain change and social change -- How the brain shapes the political mind -- Anna Nicole on the brain -- The political unconscious -- The brain’s role in family values -- The brain’s role in political ideologies -- Political challenges for the twenty-first-century mind -- A new consciousness -- Traumatic ideas : the War on Terror -- Framing reality : privateering -- Fear of framing -- Confronting stereotypes : sons of the welfare queen -- Aim above the bad apples -- Cognitive policy -- Contested concepts everywhere -- The technical is the political -- Exploring the political brain -- The problem of self-interest -- The metaphors defining rational action -- Why hawks win -- The brain’s language -- Language in the new enlightenment -- Afterword : what if it works? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
N2  - The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Don't Think of an Elephant! " explains the science behind how we make political decisions
ER  -