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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777830403321

Autore

Green Donald P. <1961->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn. ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-281-73110-2

9786611731106

0-300-13200-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Yale ISPS series

Altri autori (Persone)

PalmquistBradley <1953->

SchicklerEric <1969->

Disciplina

306.2/6/0973

Soggetti

Party affiliation

Voting

Party affiliation - United States

Voting - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.