Political Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy

Belknap, George; Campbell, Angus

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“…This is arguably the central concept in the study of electoral behavior and public opinion on partisan questions. Campbell et al defined party identification as a lens affecting voters' perceptions of the political world: ''Identification with a party raises a perceptual screen through which the individual tends to see what is favorable to his partisan orientation '' (1960, 133;Belknap and Campbell 1952). Since then, many studies have applied this concept to explain variation in electoral behavior and public opinion (for a recent review and restatement of the concept see Johnston 2006).…”

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Citizens’ Evaluations of the Fulfillment of Election Pledges: Evidence from Ireland

Thomson

2011

The Journal of Politics

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The linkage between what parties promise during election campaigns and what governments deliver afterward is central to democratic theory. Research on this linkage concludes that there is a higher level of congruence between campaign promises and government actions than suggested by the conventional wisdom. This study is the first to describe and explain citizens' evaluations of the fulfillment of election pledges in a way that is comparable with political scientists' evaluations. The explanation of variation in citizens' evaluations combines an objective factor, namely actual policy performance, and subjective factors, namely party identification, information resources, trust in political parties, and personal experience. The explanation is tested with panel data containing a unique set of questions on public opinion in Ireland. Actual policy performance is the most important factor affecting citizens' evaluations. However, subjective factors often cause citizens' evaluations to be more negative than actual policy performance suggests they should be.

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Section: Theorymentioning

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Citizens’ Evaluations of the Fulfillment of Election Pledges: Evidence from Ireland

Thomson

2011

The Journal of Politics

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“…For reasons explained in the previous section, identification is unlikely to occur as it requires long-term stability and loyalty. Party identification has received considerable attention as determinant of the vote choice (Belknap and Campbell 1952, Miller 1952, Burdick and Brodbeck 1959, Campbell et al 1960, Converse 1962. Two possible interpretations of the concept are available.…”

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Does government performance matter? Electoral support for incumbents in six post-communist countries

Gherghina

2011

Contemporary Politics

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For two decades, the Central and Eastern European party politics has been characterized by the widespread inability of parties to secure stable political support (reflected in high levels of electoral volatility) to allow their presence in government for consecutive terms. This paper investigates the factors that trigger support for incumbent parties in post-communist countries. In doing so, it examines the effect of individual evaluations at the systemic level (i.e. satisfaction with democracy, government activity), partisan attachment (i.e. preference), and objective indicators of individual economic success (i.e. the level of income) on the vote for incumbents. This cross-national analysis is conducted at the individual-level in six post-communist countries chosen on the basis of the most similar system design. The study uses data from election surveys at two different moments in time (mid-1990s and the first elections of the 2000s) and combines bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses. The results indicate that partisanship and positive evaluations of the government explain most of the vote for incumbents. Apart from these visible patterns, there are some other valuable results in specific countries understandable solely within the larger domestic political context.

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“…See Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee (1954), Key (1961:65-66), Key and Munger (1959), Lane (1959), and Lane and Sears (1964). For earlier work by members of the Michigan school that uses the concept, see Belknap and Campbell (1951-52) andCampbell, Gurin, and Miller (1954). Key and Lane may be said to have joined with Campbell, Converse, Miller, and Stokes to establish the "behavioralist" mode of studying American political behavior.…”

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A Decision Heuristic for Party Identification: New British and German Data and a New Understanding for a Classic Concept

Zuckerman

Brynin

2002

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Those who would offer an alternative theoretical perspective for the study of political behavior confront the conceptualization of party identification. Consider rational choice theory, the primary rival in this subject area. Members of this research school replace the defining notion of psychological 1 The concept resonated with an already established image of persistent and well-established attachments to political parties, such that each electoral choice was less a decision than an extension of an existing practice. See Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee (1954), Key (1961:65-66), Key and Munger (1959), Lane (1959), and Lane and Sears (1964). For earlier work by members of the Michigan school that uses the concept, see Belknap and Campbell (1951-52) andCampbell, Gurin, and Miller (1954). Key and Lane may be said to have joined with Campbell, Converse, Miller, and Stokes to establish the "behavioralist" mode of studying American political behavior. 2 The founders used party identification to analyze mass politics in other democracies, for Britain, Butler and Stokes (1969, 1974), for Norway, Campbell and Valen (1961, and for France, Converse and Dupeux (1962), Pierce (1985, 1986). This led to a voluminous literature that includes other applications and discussions of proper conceptualization, measures and theoretical utility. JSTOR cites 200 articles between 1985 and the middle of 2001, which contain the word party identification. Other examples focusing on the United States include Brody and Rothenberg (1980), Cassell (1993), Franklin and Jackson (1983), Gerber and Green (1998) Palmquist (1990, 1994), Jackson (1975), Kiewiet (1983), Markus, Nuemann, and Mackuen (2000), Miller (1991), Nie, Verba, and Petrocik (1976), Page andJones (1979), andGreen (1993-94). Because this paper examines data from Britain and Germany, it is useful to highlight studies of the concept in those countries. For other examples on Britain, see Abramson (1992), Cassell (1999), Clarke, Stewart, and Whitely (1997), Crewe (1976), Crewe, Särlvick, and Art (1977), Heath Jowell, and Curtice (1991, Heath and Pierce (1992), Johnston (1992), Rose and McAllister (1986), Rose and McAllister (1990), Sanders and Brynin (1999), Särlvick and Crewe (1983), Zuckerman (1989), and Zuckerman and Feldman (1982. For examples on Germany, see Anderson and Zelle (1998), Baker, Dalton, andHildebrandt (1981), Falter, Schoen, and Caballero (nd), Falter and Rattinger (1982), Kaase (1976), Klingemann a...

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Political Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy

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Citizens’ Evaluations of the Fulfillment of Election Pledges: Evidence from Ireland

Citizens’ Evaluations of the Fulfillment of Election Pledges: Evidence from Ireland

Does government performance matter? Electoral support for incumbents in six post-communist countries

A Decision Heuristic for Party Identification: New British and German Data and a New Understanding for a Classic Concept

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