Partisan Hearts and Minds : Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters

by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Schickler

• ISBN13: 9780300101560
• ISBN10: 0300101562
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this authoritative study, three political scientists demonstrate that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Donald Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University Bradley Palmquist has taught at Harvard University and Vanderbilt University Eric Schickler is professor of government at Harvard University

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Partisan Groups as Objects of Identification	p. 24
A Closer Look at Partisan Stability	p. 52
Partisan Stability: Evidence from Aggregate Data	p. 85
Partisan Stability and Voter Learning	p. 109
Party Realignment in the American South	p. 140
Partisan Stability outside the United States	p. 164
How Partisan Attachments Structure Politics	p. 204
Appendix	p. 231
Notes	p. 235
References	p. 245
Index	p. 255
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