| dc.creator |
Zuckerman, Alan S. |
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| dc.creator |
Brynin, Malcolm |
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| dc.date |
2001 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:59:07Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:59:07Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18252 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:341865311 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18252 |
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| dc.description |
The concept party identification lies at the heart of much research on political preferences and behavior in established democracies. Drawing on data obtained from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-99) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (1984-1998), we offer a fresh approach to the concept. Party identification is a stance that people take towards the political parties. They apply a consistent rule -a decision heuristic -persistently returning to the same preference year after year or behaving haphazardly, moving with no clear pattern among the choices. Most take a definitively negative stance towards one of the parties and a positive stance towards the other major party. Of these, about half display behavior that reflects a psychological commitment and about half are as likely as not to pick that party when asked. For most people, party identification is neither a loyalty, as conceived by traditional understanding associated with the Michigan -nor a calculated choice -as offered by rational choice theory -but a way to situate oneself persistently in relation to the relatively distant objects of politics. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
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| dc.relation |
DIW-Diskussionspapiere 268 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
Party Identification |
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| dc.subject |
decision heuristic |
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| dc.subject |
panel surveys |
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| dc.subject |
British and German politics |
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| dc.subject |
Wahlverhalten |
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| dc.subject |
Politische Partei |
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| dc.subject |
Entscheidung |
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| dc.subject |
Heuristisches Verfahren |
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| dc.subject |
Großbritannien |
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| dc.subject |
Deutschland |
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| dc.title |
A decision heuristic for party identification : new British and German data and a new understanding for a classic concept |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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