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- Title
SHORT TERM FORCES AND CHANGING PARTISANSHIP.
- Authors
Howell, Susan E.
- Abstract
This research stemmed from the growing realization that party ID is not purely the long-term force originally conceptualized. The current conception is that it is a combination of a standing decision and responses to political events. The research addresses two questions: For what proportion of partisan changers is party ID a lagging, stable attachment to be changed only after a period of disaffection from one's party? What is the relative power of the various time I short term forces to alter party ID time 2? Among the short term forces, time 1 voting behavior showed the strongest relationship to future change in ID. Criteria were established to identify changers whose change was based in past attitudes or behavior. For these criteria a typology was created to categorize the possible time 1 reasons and motivations for changing partisanship. The distribution of changers among categories illustrated that past voting behavior is the major instrument of partisan change. Only a small percentage were motivated by attitudes alone. Thus, overall the distribution confirmed the conception of party ID as lagging and stable. However, a substantial minority, 31 percent, showed no prior signs of partisan change.
- Subjects
PARTISANSHIP; POLITICAL change; VOTING &; society; POLITICAL participation; MOTIVATION (Psychology); POLITICAL parties; LABELING theory; INTERNATIONAL relations; POLITICAL science education
- Publication
Political Behavior, 1981, Vol 3, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
0190-9320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989844