Partisan hearts and minds : political parties and the social identities of voters / Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Donald P., 1961-

Contributor:

Palmquist, Bradley, 1953-

Schickler, Eric, 1969-

Series:

Yale ISPS series.

Yale ISPS series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Party affiliation.

Voting.

Party affiliation--United States.

Voting--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2002.

Summary:

In this, the first major treatment of party identification in twenty years, three political scientists assert that identification with political parties still powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Challenging prevailing views, they build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.The authors maintain that individuals form partisan attachments early in adulthood and that these political identities, much like religious identities, tend to persist or change only slowly over time. Scandals, recessions, and landslide elections do not greatly affect party identification; large shifts in party attachments occur only when the social imagery of a party changes, as when African Americans became part of the Democratic Party in the South after the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Drawing on a wealth of data analysis using individual-level and aggregate survey data from the United States and abroad, this study offers a new perspective on party identification that will set the terms of discussion for years to come.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface, vii

1 Introduction, i

2 Partisan Groups as Objects of Identification, 24

3 A Closer Look at Partisan Stability, 52

4 Partisan Stability: Evidence from Aggregate Data, 85

5 Partisan Stability and Voter Learning, o09

6 Party Realignment in the American South, 140

7 Partisan Stability outside the United States, 164

8 How Partisan Attachments Structure Politics, 204

Appendix, 23I

Notes, 235

References, 245

Index, 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-254) and index.

ISBN:

9786611731106

9781281731104

1281731102

9780300132007

030013200X

OCLC:

923590270