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| Other authors / contributors: | Palmquist, Bradley, 1953- author.
Schickler, Eric, 1969- author.
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| ISBN: | 9780300132007
030013200X
1281731102
9781281731104
0300092156
9780300092158
0300101562
9780300101560
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | A treatment of party identification, in which 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 from other countries, this study seeks to offer a new perspective on party identification that will set the terms of discussion for years to come.
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| Other form: | Print version: Green, Donald P., 1961- Partisan hearts and minds. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, ©2002 0300092156
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