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- Title
SINGLE-ISSUE VOTING: Elite-Mass Linkages.
- Authors
Conover, Pamela Johnston; Gray, Virginia; Coombs, Steven
- Abstract
In this paper we consider the abortion and E.R.A. issues as examples of single-issue politics, as well as the nature of single-issue politics in general. We argue that many single issues are what others have called "easy" issues but that "hard-issue" voting as well as "easy-issue" voting may be occurring on both issues. We test this hypothesis using both "mass" and "elite" data sets. Our findings suggest that political activists may be cuing the masses into a pattern of single-issue voting, and hence keeping the battle over abortion and the E.R.A. intense.
- Subjects
POLITICAL science; SINGLE issue politics; ACTIVISTS; ABORTION; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL rights; SOCIAL participation; ELECTIONS; SOCIAL conflict; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Political Behavior, 1982, Vol 4, Issue 4, p309
- ISSN
0190-9320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00986967