Competing motives in the partisan mind: how loyalty and responsiveness shape party identification and democracy
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Main Author: Groenendyk, Eric W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2013
Series:Series in political psychology
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Introduction -- A dual motivations theory -- Identity justification : identifying with the "lesser of two evils" -- Identity justification : issue reprioritization -- Cognitive resources and resistance to identity change -- Motivation and measurement error -- The paradox of partisan responsiveness -- Motivation and democracy -- References
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-Ressource
ISBN:0199969809
0199969817
9780199969807
9780199969814

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