The Contextual Causes of Issue and Party Voting in American Presidential Elections

Political Behavior - Tập 32 - Trang 453-471 - 2010
Benjamin Highton1
1Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, USA

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This paper analyzes the influence of the two most commonly examined causes of presidential vote choice, policy preferences and party identification. The focus is on change across elections in order to assess how the effects of issues and partisanship respond to the larger political context in which voters make their decisions. In contrast to party centric views of politics, I find little direct responsiveness to party issue contrast and substantial influence of candidate issue contrast. Further, I find that leading hypotheses for the “resurgence in partisanship” are not consistent with some important facts suggesting that the explanation remains elusive.

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