The Reputational Premium : A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning
Paul M. Sniderman
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (161 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Our Story; Chapter 2: A Reputational Theory of Party Identifi cation and Policy Reasoning; Premises; The Institutional Basis of Party-Centered Voting; Characteristics of Choice Sets in Politics; Reputational Reasoning and Candidate Positioning; Chapter 3: Lessons from a Sterile Downsian Environment; Issues of Identity; A Thought Experiment: Policy Reasoning in a Sterilized Downsian Space; The Downsian Experiment; Party and Partisanship in the Absence of Party. - A Reputational Theory of Party Identifi cation and Policy ReasoningA Party-Centered Supply-Side Approach to the Question of Citizen Competence; A Paradox: Citizen Competence and Partisan Reputation; Coda; Appendix A: A Limit on the Influence of the Policy Reputations of Parties; Introduction; Reputations as Encoded Information; The Stickiness of Preferences; Can Parties Induce Polarization Spikes?; Replication; Precis; Appendix B: Study Descriptions: General Description of Methodology; References; Index. - Lessons from a Sterile Downsian EnvironmentChapter 4: The Electoral Logic of Party Reputations; The Errors-and-Bias Interpretation of Party Identifi cation; The Canonical Theory of Party Identifi cation; Programmatic Partisans and Reputational Premiums in Policy Reasoning; Candidate Positioning and the Reputational Premium: The Order Rule; Alternative Hypotheses on Candidate Positioning; Replication: The Order Rule; When Candidate Positions and Party Reputations Conflict; Caveat Lector; Chapter 5: The Democratic Experiment: A Supply-Side Theory of Political Ideas and Institutions. - The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary American politics enables voters to make coherent policy choices. Standard approaches to the study of policy-based voting hold that voters choose based on the policy positions of the two candidates competing for their support. This study demonstrates that candidates can get a premi
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| ISBN | 0691154147. - 0691154171. - 9780691154145. - 9780691154176
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