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Issues and the Dynamics of Party Identification: A Methodological Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Eric Schickler  and
Donald Green
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Abstract

Using data from the 1956–60 and 1972–76 National Election Studies (NES), we replicate the issues/party identification (PID) models set forth in Franklin (1992) and Franklin and Jackson (1983). Mild constraints on the signs of the parameters in a full-information model reduce to insignificance the apparent causal influence of issue proximities on partisanship. Furthermore, alternative specifications of the issues/PID relationship yield no evidence that citizens update their partisanship based on their ideological distance from the parties.

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Political Analysis , Volume 5 , 1993 , pp. 151 - 179
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Copyright © Society for Political Methodology 

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