By Eric W. Groenendyk
Social gathering id is mostly thought of the main strong predictor of vote casting behaviour. but, after 50 years of analysis, students proceed to disagree over the results of this famous discovering. a few argue that celebration id constitutes a sturdy affective attachment that electorate are influenced to shield, while others argue that social gathering identity constitutes a operating tally of electorate' objective Read more...
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Senate. Another clip showed an apparently middle-class man rubbing his forehead as he looks over his bills at the kitchen table. 1). Information about the parties’ positions came in the form of three fictitious newspaper quotations. Each set of quotations commented on either Democratic opposition to the bill or Republican support for the bill. Because the stimuli were targeted toward Democrats, the quotes were attributed to sources Democrats would likely find credible. By opposing the bankruptcy abuse bill… “Democrats let corporate crooks off the hook”—The Washington Post “Democrats are simply wrong on bankruptcy abuse”—The Boston Globe “Democrats are playing politics with people’s lives”—The New York Times OR By supporting the bankruptcy abuse bill… “Republicans are keeping the heat on corporate crooks”—The Washington Post “Republicans are right on bankruptcy abuse”—The Boston Globe “Republicans are putting people above politics”—The New York Times Within each of the three experimental conditions, Democratic opposition and Republican support quotations were randomized to ensure that any effects would be attributable to inconsistency between issue attitudes and party identification and not to support versus opposition framing.
This fits the known pattern whereby party identification becomes stronger with age and experience (Alwin & Krosnick, 1991; Brader & Tucker, 2001; Converse, 1969, 1976; Sears & Levy, 2003; Stoker & Jennings, 2009). In short, a demonstration that party identification changes with attitudes is not necessarily evidence against partisan filtering. In fact, given that the standard scale runs from strong Republican to strong Democrat, shifts in party identification may result from weakening of identification with one party, strengthening of identification with the other, or both.
Although alternative theories may explain the results of any one of these tests individually, each test is designed to build on the last, so that as the book progresses, alternative explanations may be ruled out until only the dual motivations theory remains plausible. Chapters 2 and 3 test the justification hypothesis using experiments and data from the American National Election Studies (ANES). Each focuses on a different justification method: the “lesser of two evils” defense and the issue reprioritization defense.
