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Partisan hearts and minds : political parties and the social identities of voters

A treatment of party identification, in which three political scientists argue that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. They build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities
Print Book, English, ©2002
Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., ©2002
x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300092158, 9780300101560, 0300092156, 0300101562
49002021
1. Introduction
2. Partisan Groups as Objects of Identification
3. A Closer Look at Partisan Stability
4. Partisan Stability: Evidence from Aggregate Data
5. Partisan Stability and Voter Learning
6. Party Realignment in the American South
7. Partisan Stability outside the United States
8. How Partisan Attachments Structure Politics