Partisanship and Ideology slides for two lectures

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Partisanship (and Ideology) slides for two
lectures

• Mark Stephan
• Voting and Elections
• PS 417

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Last Class and This Class

• Background on participation
• Some causal arguments about who participates and
  why
• Partisanship defined
• Partisanship and electoral change

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Partisanship

• What is it?
• Whether and how
• Party I.D.
• Partisanship and Ideology
• Short term forces

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Partisanship (continued)

• Deviate, Realign, Dealign
• Key points to remember
• Party Systems?
• http//www.uselectionatlas.org/
• Independents and the future of the two-party
  system

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News Flash!!

• Iraqi elections what happened? Pros and cons?
• State of the Union Address on Wednesday night!

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Partisanship (continued)

• Partisanship and defection
• Partisanship and turnout
• Independents?
• Anybody missed?
• Converted or mobilized?
• Partisan change period effects, generation
  effects, life-cycle effects

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Partisanship and Us

• Figure 5-1, p.101 what does it say about us?
  About our nation?
• Primary groups
• Social Classes
• Consistency versus Cross-Pressures
• What would the perfectly cross-pressured voter
  look like?

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Political Ideology

• What is it?
• Beliefs and principles
• Interrelated attitudes coherent, consistent
• Do most people have clear ideologies?

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Measuring Ideology and Opinion

• Survey data
• No way to independently verify (unlike voting)
• Converses non-responses
• Gamsons view
• Easy issues versus hard issues

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The standard labels for ideology

• What are they?
• What are some alternative categories?
• Economic issues, social issues
• Changes over time
• Do the labels help or hurt?

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Ideology and Partisan leanings

• Do they match up?
• Seeing a difference between the parties
• Who tends to match up ideology and partisanship
  better?
• Does ideology influence behavior?

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News Flash

• State of the Union Address