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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1. Verfasser: Groenendyk, Eric W.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Series in political psychology.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780199969814
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