# Individual perspicacity, collective naïveté

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The piece asks why individuals can recognise manipulative political discourse while collective electoral behaviour often remains predictable.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 February 2008

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 17 February 2008
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: collective-action, political-behaviour, cognition, elections.

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