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Party Identification, Realignment, and Party Voting: Back to the Basics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Warren E. Miller
Warren E. Miller
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Arizona State University
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Abstract

The argument is presented for defining party identification by the root question, “Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a Republican, a Democrat, an independent, or what?” With this definitional base, the partisan balance between Democrats and Republicans between 1952 and 1980 shows no evidence of realignment outside the South, belying the implications of the Markus-Converse and Fiorina analyses that suggest volatility in response to short-term influences. It also appears that the correlation between party identification and voter choices for president are very constant over time in the South as well as outside the South. Party line voting by party identifiers varies by region and party but did not decrease between 1952 and 1988.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 557 - 568
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1991

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