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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Main Author: Groenendyk, Eric W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
Series:Series in political psychology / Series in political psychology
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780199346110