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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554261303321

Autore

Kollman Ken <1966->

Titolo

Dynamic partisanship : how and why voter loyalties change / / Ken Kollman and John E. Jackson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2022

ISBN

0-226-76253-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Collana

Chicago scholarship online

Disciplina

324.2

Soggetti

Party affiliation

Comparative government

Partisanship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter two. Partisanship -- Chapter three. Consistent Partisanship Models -- Chapter four. The United States -- Chapter five. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom -- Chapter six. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom -- Chapter seven. Explaining Partisanship Dynamics -- Chapter eight. Parties and Partisanship -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady democracy. Ken Kollman and John E. Jackson study changing patterns of partisanship in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia over the last 50 years in order to disentangle possible reasons for shifting partisanship and party identification. They argue that changes in partisanship can be explained by adjustments in voters' attitudes toward issues or parties; the success or failure of policies advocated by parties; or alterations in parties' positions on key issues.