I'd Rather Switch than Fight: Lifelong Democrats and Converts to Republicanism among Campaign Activists

Clark, John A.; Bruce, John M.; Kessel, John H.; Jacoby, William G.

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“…The more a person cares about policy issues, the more likely that person will become politically active, and, in general, those with strong ideological convictions tend to care more about policy issues than those with more moderate views. As a result, active partisans tend to hold more extreme views on a wide range of policy issues than either the overall electorate or their own party's rank-and-file-voters: Active Democrats tend to hold more liberal views than the overall electorate or rank-and-file Democrats, whereas active Republicans tend to hold more conservative views than the overall electorate or rank-and-file Republicans (Clark, Bruce, Kessel, & Jacoby, 1991;Clarke, Elliott, & Roback, 1991;Kirkpatrick, 1976;Kweit, 1986;McCann, 1995;Nesbit, 1988;Nexon, 1971;Sullivan, Page, Pressman, & Lyons, 1974;Wildavsky, 1965).…”

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Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate

Saunders

Abramowitz

2004

American Politics Research

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This article investigates the consequences of ideological realignment for the motivations and policy preferences of active partisans—Democratic and Republican identifiers who engage in electoral activities that go beyond the act of voting. We hypothesize that, consistent with the logic of persuasion and selective recruitment/derecruitment, the influence of ideology as a motivation for campaign participation varies over time and between parties depending on the salience of the ideological cues provided by a party’s candidates and office-holders. Evidence from the 1972 to 2000 American National Election Studies supports this hypothesis. As a result of an ideological realignment led by conservative Republican leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, by the mid-1990s, ideology had become a much more important motivation for participation among Republicans than among Democrats, and active Republicans were farther to the right of the electorate than active Democrats were to the left of the electorate on a wide range of policy issues.

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Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate

Saunders

Abramowitz

2004

American Politics Research

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“…Similarly, Glaser (2001) finds roll-call and legislative differences among southern legislators following their party defections. Also found in the literature are works pertaining to switching among party activists (Clark et al 1991;Kweit 1986;Nesbit 1988;Prysby 1998;Stone 1991) and voter realignment. Other works, such as those by Castle and Fett (2000) and King and Benjamin (1986), analyze the causes of congressional party switching and find that district-level factors and ideology affect the likelihood of switching.…”

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The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching by Incumbent Members of Congress, 1947–2000

Grose

Yoshinaka

2003

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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What are the electoral consequences of switching parties for incumbent members of Congress? Do incumbents who switch fare better or worse after their switch? Aldrich (1995) and Aldrich and Bianco (1992) present a model of party affiliation for all candidates. We empirically extend this model for incumbent legislators who have switched parties. Specifically, we look at the universe of incumbent representatives who have run for Congress under more than one party label since World War II. We find that the primary and general election vote shares for party switchers are not as high after the switch as before. Additionally, we learn that party switching causes the primaries in the switcher's party and in the the opposing party (the switcher's “old” party) to become more competitive in the short run. Over the long run, however, primaries in the switcher's new party are less competitive than those in the old party before the switch.

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“…Moreover, by the 1970s, “Southern whites were only marginally different from the total electorate” in terms of the distribution of partisanship (Petrocik, 1987, p. 357), and the relationship between partisanship and other variables—for example, class (Nadeau & Stanley, 1993)—began to resemble that of the rest of the country. Similarly, among a survey of campaign activists, 50% of eventual partisan converts made the switch in the early 1970s (Clark, Bruce, Kessel, & Jacoby, 1991). In other words, the new political reality was firmly established by the 1970s and individuals responded to the parties in the way that we would expect: Their partisanship was a significant predictor of how they evaluated the parties.…”

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Partisan Ambivalence, Partisan Intensity, and Racial Attitudes: The Impact of Shifting Policy Positions on Partisan Evaluations in the 1960s

Lupton

Thornton

2018

American Politics Research

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The concept of ambivalence is important to the study of political psychology and behavior. We examine the causes of partisan ambivalence following the passage of major civil rights legislation to test our argument that the correlates of ambivalence will change following the alteration of long-standing party positions on a highly salient issue. We find support for this hypothesis for White Southerners during this time period—Indeed, our results demonstrate that the strength of one’s partisan attachment is unrelated to partisan evaluations for such individuals immediately following the passage of major civil rights legislation, but is again a predictor by the early 1970s.

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I'd Rather Switch than Fight: Lifelong Democrats and Converts to Republicanism among Campaign Activists

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate

Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate

The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching by Incumbent Members of Congress, 1947–2000

Partisan Ambivalence, Partisan Intensity, and Racial Attitudes: The Impact of Shifting Policy Positions on Partisan Evaluations in the 1960s

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