Competing motives in the partisan mind : how loyalty and responsiveness shape party identification and democracy /
Party identification is generally considered the most powerful predictor of voting behaviour. Yet, after 50 years of research, scholars continue to disagree over the implications of this well-known finding. Some argue that party identification constitutes a stable affective attachment that voters ar...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Series in political psychology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Party identification is generally considered the most powerful predictor of voting behaviour. Yet, after 50 years of research, scholars continue to disagree over the implications of this well-known finding. Some argue that party identification constitutes a stable affective attachment that voters are motivated to defend, whereas others argue that party identification constitutes a running tally of voters' objective evaluations. This book seeks to advance the literature beyond this impasse by relaxing the motivational assumptions underlying the literature's two dominant models. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780199969814 0199969817 |