Apparently Partial Ignorance is Bliss

From the Press-Citizen

A University of Iowa political science professor has won an award for a book he co-authored.
The book, "How Voters Decide: Information Processing During Election Campaigns" argues that informed voters don't always do the best voting.

"Voters who don't try to learn everything vote better," said associate professor David Redlawsk, whose co-authored book won the Alexander George Book Award from the International Society for Political Psychology.

Redlawsk and Richard Lau of Rutgers University received the award at a July 6 conference in Portland, Ore. The award is given to the best book published in the past year in the field of political psychology, an area that fuses psychology with political science.

"Voters encounter a lot of information during campaigns, and we were interested in what kind of information they encounter and use," he said.