POS 6207 (Spring 2011)
Seminar
in Political Behavior
Section 6078
Seminar meets Wednesdays 5-7 periods (11:45 am to 2:45 pm)
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phone
(352) 273-2363
email martinez@ufl.edu
Office: 234 Anderson
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The goal for the seminar is to review the literature on
political behavior
and behavioralism
generally with a view toward
formulating questions for further research in the field. Each week, the
seminar
will review and discuss selected readings on various topics, and
evaluate how
well this group of readings answers basic scientific questions about
political
behavior. Much of the literature is based on the US case, but each week
also
includes readings that will address comparative research, as well.
Requirements:
1.
Attendance
and Participation. The weekly meetings of the seminar should
be viewed as
opportunities for the exchange of ideas among scholars. You may, on
occasion,
be able to tell that I am the leader of the seminar, but its overall
success
depends on the informed participation of everyone. Each student is
expected to
have completed the readings for the week, and to have something to say
about
those readings when seminar begins.
2.
Essays. Each student will submit six essays
over the
course of the semester. If you choose to do an essay for a particular
week,
that essay is due via Sakai
by 3 pm
on the day before seminar (Tuesdays). Each
essay
will be approximately 400-500 words, and will either
- (a)
provide a theoretical overview linking several (though not necessarily
all) of the week's readings,
- (b)
provide a methodological critique of one or more readings,
- (c)
discuss the lessons learned from US political behavior in a comparative
context; and/or applies the lessons learned from comparative context to
the US case, or
- (d)
do a quickie data
analysis that updates or extends some of the empirical findings in one
or more of the readings to another setting (using contemporary data or
data from another setting).
Participation
in seminar and the essays will
contribute 33% toward your final grade for the course.
In
addition to attendance and participation, each student will be required
to do two
of the following (each of which contributes another third to your
grade).
3. Complete a term paper. This
paper will review some
literature on a topic of political behavior of your own choosing (in
consultation with me), and will provide some data analysis
(commensurate with
your level of preparation) that tests empirical propositions suggested
by the
literature. You may want to review relevant materials from the Conduct
of
Inquiry Seminar in conjunction with this assignment. This paper will be
due
Monday, April 25 by close of business. Further guidelines
are available here.
4. Complete
an exam. The final exam will be a 24-hour open notes exam
consisting of two
questions, that will be comparable to questions that students might see
on a
Ph.D. field prelim in Political Behavior or a comprehensive exam in
Political
Campaigning. Exams will be evaluated on how well the essays answer the
questions, using literature in the field of Political Behavior as
evidence in
support of your arguments. Selection of appropriate evidence
is vital to
your success in these types of exams. The exam will be from noon,Wednesday,
April 27, to noon, Thursday, April 28,
unless another time is agreed upon by all participants (including me).
5(a). Teach a
seminar (open to Ph.D. wannabes).
Success will be evaluated by all participants in the seminar, based on
clarity,
thoroughness, and insights in your explanation of the
material. Students
who wish to pursue this option need to declare by January 19 which
seminar they
would like to lead.
5(b). Write a
campaign memo (open to
Campaigning students). This option entails writing a seven to nine page
memo
that explains in laymans'
terms (that a candidate
will understand) how some subset of literature in Political Behavior
informs
some aspect of a campaign plan or strategy. The memo should include a
brief
paragraph introducing the candidate's strategic position, and outlining
the
basic question that you are going to answer. The basic idea is to tell
the
candidate how the literature helps you (and her/him) to better
- understand
or predict how a block of voters may vote, or
- understand
or predict voter turnout, and how that may affect his/her campaign;
- act
or react to something in a campaign, or
- understand how his or her current
strategic position affects her or his likelihood of success (eg., partisanship, incumbency,
issues).
The campaign memo will be due Monday, April 25 by close of business.
Books
Based on my previous experience, the local bookstores may or
may not make
the following books available for your purchase:
Abramson, Paul R., John H.
Aldrich, and David W. Rohde.
2009. Change and Continuity in the 2008 Elections.
Washington: CQ Press.
Niemi,
Richard G., Herbert Weisberg, and David C. Kimball. 2011. Controversies
in Voting
Behavior. Washington: CQ Press. 5th
edition. [Hereinafter: Controversies.]
Fiorina, Morris
P. , with
Samuel J. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2010. Culture
War? The Myth of a
Polarized America. 3rd Edition. New York:
Pearson Longman.
Some students may prefer
to read the
assigned chapters in the comfort of Library West, where they are also
on
reserve.
These books (and a few others) are on an Amazon.com wishlist
accessible here.
Other readings will be available on at the Course Reserve Desk
in Library
East, or electronically on JSTOR.
(See http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/access.html
for access guidelines, and please do NOT print JSTOR articles in the
Political
Science Datalab. The
problem here is really a tragedy
of the commons, as it is VERY costly to the department in ink
(especially) and
paper for us to allow multiple printouts of assigned
articles. You are
certainly welcome to download and save these articles as pdf
files for printing at home or elsewhere,
or you may xerox a
friend's printout at a local copy center at your
own expense. You also have access to JSTOR and other
electronic libraries
at the CIRCA labs, where you can pay to print articles.)
The following is a tentative calendar for the
course.
- (*)
Starred items should be on reserve at Library West.
- (**) Double-starred items are reprinted in Controversies in Voting Behavior.
- Students
leading particular seminars and I reserve the right to change readings
from
required to optional, or vice-versa, or to substitute other readings
with
advance notice.
- Optional
review essays may
help you make sense of the readings as a whole.
January 5: No class (Southern Political Science Association Meetings, New Orleans)
January 12 Introduction to
the Seminar (no essay
due)
Niemi,
Richard G., Herbert F. Weisberg, and David C. Kimball. 2010. The
Study of
Voting and Elections. In
Controversies.
Abramson, Paul R., John H.
Aldrich, and David W. Rohde.
2009. Change and Continuity in the 2008 Elections.
Washington: CQ Press.
Preface and Introductions to Parts I
and II.
Niemi,
Richard G., Herbert F. Weisberg, and David C. Kimball. 2010. "How Important Are Informational Differences Among Voters?". In
Controversies, pp. 75-89.
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Optional review essays
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Dalton, Russell J. and Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
2007. "Citizens and Political Behavior." Pp. 4-26 in Oxford
Handbook of Political Behavior, edited by R. J. Dalton and
H.-D. Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press.
Kinder, Donald R. 1998. "Opinion and Action in the Realm
of Politics." Pp. 778-867 in The Handbook of Social Psychology,
vol. 2, edited by D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, and G. Lindzey. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Dalton, Russell J. and Martin P. Wattenberg. 1993. "The
not so simple act of voting." In Political science : the state of the
discipline II. Ada
W. Finifter. (Ed.)
Washington, DC :
American Political Science Association.
Sniderman,
Paul M. 1993. "The new look in public opinion research." In Political
science : the state
of the discipline II. Ada
W. Finifter. (Ed.)
Washington, DC :
American Political Science Association.
Heath, Anthony, Stephen Fisher, and Shawna Smith. 2005.
"The Globalization of Public Opinion Research." Annual Review
of Political Science 8:297-333.
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January 19: How Much (or Little) Does Joe the Plumber Understand
about Politics?
* Delli Carpini, Michael X. and Scott Keeter. 1996. What
Americans Know
About Politics and Why It Matters. New Haven: Yale
University. Press.
Introduction and Chapters 2 and 4.
Althaus,
Scott. 1998. "Information Effects in Collective
Preferences."
American Political Science Review 92 (3, September):
545-558.
Gordon, Stacy B. and Gary M. Segura. 1997. "Cross-national variation in
the political sophistication of individuals: Capability or choice?"
Journal of Politics 59:126-147.
Taber, Charles S. and Milton Lodge. 2006. "Motivated Skepticism in the
Evaluation of Political Beliefs." American Journal of
Political Science
50:755-769.
** Baum, M. A., and A. S. Jamison. 2006. "The Oprah effect: How soft news helps inattentive citizens vote consistently." Journal of Politics 68 (4):946-959.
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Lau, Richard R., and David P. Redlawsk. 2001. "Advantages and
disadvantages of cognitive heuristics in political decision making." American Journal of Political Science 45 (4):951-971.
** Goren, Paul. 2004. "Political sophistication and policy reasoning: A reconsideration." American Journal of Political Science 48 (3):462-478. (Updated in Controversies.)
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Optional review essays
Kinder, Donald R. 2003.
"Belief Systems after Converse." in Electoral Democracy,
edited by M. B. MacKuen and G. Rabinowitz. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press.
Galston, William A.
2001. Political Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic
Education. Annual Review of Political
Science 4: 217-234.
Converse, Philip E.
2000. Assessing the Capacity of Mass Electorates. Annual
Review of Political Science. 3: 331-353.
Kuklinski, James H. and
Buddy Peyton. 2007. "Belief Systems and Political Decision Making." Pp.
45-64 in Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior,
edited by R. J. Dalton and H.-D. Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press.
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optional
Converse, Philip E.
1970. Attitudes and Non-Attitudes: Continuation of a Dialogue. In The
Quantitative Analysis of Social Problems, edited by E. R.
Tufte. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Lupia, Arthur et al. 2007. "Were Bush Tax Cut Supporters
'Simply Ignorant?' A Second Look at Conservatives and Liberals in
'Homer Gets A Tax Cut'". Perspectives on Politics 5 (4): 773-784.
Bartels, Larry M. 2007.
"Homer Gets A Warm Hug: A Note on Ignorance and Extenuation"
Perspectives on Politics 5 (4): 785-790.
Lau, Richard R. and
David P. Redlawsk. 1997. "Voting
Correctly." American Political Science Review 91 (3, September):
585-598. In Controversies: 139-163.
Delli Carpini, Michael
X. and Scott Keeter. 1991. "Stability and Change in the United States
Public's Knowledge of Politics." Public Opinion Quarterly
55 (4, Winter): 583-612. Highton,
Benjamin. 2009. “Revisiting the Relationship between Educational
Attainment and
Political Sophistication.” Journal of
Politics 71 (4):1564-1576.
Bartels, Larry M. 2005. "Homer Gets A Tax Cut: Inequality and Public
Policy in the American Mind." Perspectives on
Politics 3 (1):
15-31. Sullivan,
John L., James E. Piereson, and George E. Marcus. 1978. "Ideological
Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New
Findings." American Journal of Political Science 22
(2, May):
233-249.
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Converse, Philip E. 1964. "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass
Publics." Pp. 206-261 in Ideology and Discontent, edited by D. E.
Apter.
New York: Free Press.
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Klingemann, Hans-Dieter. 1979. "Measuring Ideological
Conceptualizations." in Political action : mass participation
in five
Western democracies, edited by S. H. Barnes and M. Kaase.
Beverly Hills,
Calif.: Sage Publications.
* Zaller, John R. 1992. The Nature and
Origins of Mass Opinion.
New York: Cambridge. Chapters 1-4.
Zaller,
John R., and Stanley Feldman. 1992. "A Simple Model
of the
Survey Response: Answering Questions versus Revealing
Preferences." American
Journal of Political Science 36: 579-616.
Jacoby, William G. 1995. "The Structure of Ideological
Thinking in
the American Electorate," American Journal of Political
Science.
(2, May): 314-335.
Huckfeldt,
Robert, Jeffrey Levine, William Morgan, and John Sprague.
1999.
"Accessibility and the Utility of Partisan and Ideological
Orientations." American Journal of Political Science
43 (3,
July): 888-912.
Layman,
Geoffrey C., and Thomas M. Carsey. 2002. Party Polarization and
"Conflict Extension" in the American Electorate. American Journal of
Political Science 46 (4):786-802.
optional
Hurwitz,
John and Mark A. Peffley. 1987. "How Are Foreign Policy Attitudes
Structured? A Hierarchical Model." American Political Science
Review
81:1099-1120.
Converse, Philip E. 2007. "Perspectives on Mass Belief Systems and
Communication." Pp. 144-158 in Oxford Handbook of Political
Behavior,
edited by R. J. Dalton and H.-D. Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press.
Popkin, Samuel. 1991. The Reasoning
Voter.
Chicago: University of Chicago. Chapters 1-4.
** Niemi,
Richard G., Herbert F. Weisberg, and David C. Kimball. 2010. "Is Political Participation Declining or Just Changing Form?". In
Controversies, pp. 23-40.
Riker,
William and Peter Ordeshook. 1968. "A Theory of the Calculus of
Voting." American Political Science Review 62:25-42.
* Green, Donald P. and Ian Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of
Rational Choice
Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. New
Haven: Yale
University Press. Chapter 4.
Fowler, James H., and Cindy D. Kam. 2007. "Beyond the self: Social identity, altruism, and political participation." Journal of Politics 69 (3):813-827.
Javeline,
Debra. 2003. "The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from
Russia." American Political Science
Review 97:107-121.
Bendor,
Jonathan, Daniel Diermeier, and Michael Ting. 2003. “A Behavioral Model
of
Turnout.” American Political Science Review 97 (2,
May): 261-280.
* Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady. 1995. Voice
and
Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge,
Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press. Chapters 4, 9-12.
Fowler,
James H., Laura A. Baker, and Christopher T. Dawes. 2008. "Genetic
Variation in Political Participation." American Political
Science
Review. 102: 233-248.
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Optional review essays
Rucht, Dieter. 2007.
"Turnout in Elections." Pp. 708-723 in Oxford Handbook of
Political Behavior, edited by R. J. Dalton and H.-D.
Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Fiorina, Morris P.
1990. "Information and Rationality in Elections." Pp. 329-342 in
Information and Democratic Processes, edited by J. A.
Ferejohn and J. H. Kuklinski. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Theiss-Morse, Elizabeth
and John R. Hibbing. 2005. "Citizenship and Civic Engagement." Annual
Review of Political Science 8:227-249.
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optional
Campbell, Andrea
Louise. 2002. "Self-Interest, Social Security, and the Distinctive
Participation Patterns of Senior Citizens." American
Political Science Review 96 (3, September): 565-574.
Opp, Karl-Dieter.
1989. The rationality of political protest : a
comparative analysis of rational choice theory.
Boulder : Westview Press.
Fowler, James H. 2006.
"Altruism and Turnout." Journal of Politics
68:674-683.
Finkel, Stephen E. and
Edward N. Muller. 1998. "Rational Choice and the Dynamics of Collective
Political Action." American Political Science Review 92
(1, March): 37-49.
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*
Wolfinger, Raymond and Steven J. Rosenstone. 1980.
Who
Votes?
New Haven: Yale. Chapters 1-4.
* Abramson, Paul R., John H. Aldrich, and
David W. Rohde. 2009. Change
and Continuity in the 2008 Elections. Washington: CQ Press. Chapter
4.
* Franklin, Mark N. 2002. "The Dynamics of Electoral Participation."
in Comparing Democracies 2 : New Challenges in the Study of
Elections and
Voting, edited by L. LeDuc, R. G. Niemi, and P. Norris.
London ; Thousand
Oaks: Sage.
McDonald,
Michael P. and Samuel L. Popkin. 2001. "The Myth of the
Vanishing
Voter." American Political Science Review
95 (4, December):
963-974.
** Prior, Markus. 2005. News vs. entertainment: How increasing media choice widens gaps in political knowledge and turnout. American Journal of Political Science 49 (3):577-592.
Berinsky,
Adam J. 2005. "The Perverse Consequences of Electoral Reform in the
United
States." American Politics Research 33:471-491.
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Rosenstone, Steven J. and John Mark Hansen. 1993. Mobilization,
Participation, and Democracy in America. New York:
MacMillan.
Chapters 6 and 7.
Ansolabehere,
Stephen et al. 1994. Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate?
American
Political Science Review 88 (4, December): 829-838.
Finkel,
Steven E., and John G. Geer. 1998. A Spot Check:
Casting Doubt on
the Demobilizing Effect of Attack Advertising. American
Journal of Political
Science 42 (2, April): 573-595.
Gerber,
Alan S. and Donald P. Green. 2000. "The Effects of
Canvassing,
Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: a Field Experiment."
American
Political Science Review 94 (September): 653-663.
Solt, Frederick. 2008. "Economic Inequality and Democratic Political
Engagement." American Journal of
Political Science 52 (1, January) :48-60.
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Optional review essays
Blais, Andrė. 2007.
"Turnout in Elections." Pp. 621-635 in Oxford Handbook of
Political Behavior, edited by R. J. Dalton and H.-D.
Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Blais, André. 2006.
"What Affects Voter Turnout?" Annual Review of Political
Science 9:111-125.
Lijphart,
Arend. 1997. "Unequal Participation: Democracy's
Unresolved Dilemma." American Political Science
Review 91 (1, March): 1-14.
Leighley, Jan E. 1995.
"Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives - A Field Essay on Political
Participation." Political Research Quarterly
48:181-209.
Gronke, Paul, Eva
Galanes-Rosenbaum, Peter A. Miller, and Daniel Toffey. 2008.
"Convenience Voting." Annual Review of Political Science
11:437-455.
Martinez, Michael D.
2009. "Why Is American Turnout So Low, and Why Should We Care?" in Oxford
Handbook of American Political Behavior, edited by J. E.
Leighley. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
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Optional
Powell, G. Bingham. 1986. "American Voter Turnout in Comparative
Perspective." American Political Science Review 80
(1, March):
17-44. Putnam,
Robert D. 1995. Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange
Disappearance of
Social Capital in America. PS: Political Science and Politics
38 (4,
December). Reprinted in Controversies, pp. 33-68. Timpone, Richard J. 1998 Structure, Behavior, and
Voter Turnout in the United States. American Political
Science Review 92 (1, March): 145-158.
Martinez, Michael
D. 2000. "Turning Out or Tuning Out? Electoral
Participation in Canada and the United States." In Canada
and the United States: Differences That Count. Ed.
David M. Thomas. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview.
pp. 211-228.
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Franklin, Mark N. 2004. Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of
Electoral
Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945. Cambridge,
UK ; New
York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters ?
Plutzer,
Eric. 2002. "Becoming a Habitual Voter: Inertia, Resources,
and
Growth in Young Adulthood," American Political Science Review
96
(1, March): 41-56.
Goldstein,
K. M., and T. N. Ridout. 2002. The politics of participation:
Mobilization and
turnout over time. Political Behavior
24 (1):3-29. Karp,
Jeffrey A., Susan A. Banducci, and Shaun Bowler. 2008. “Getting out the
vote:
Party mobilization in a comparative perspective.” British
Journal of Political Science 38:91-112. Gerber,
Alan S., Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer. 2008. “Social
pressure
and voter turnout: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment.” American
Political Science Review 102 (1, February):33-48. Hayes, Danny, and Seth C. McKee. 2009. The Participatory Effects of Redistricting. American Journal of Political Science 53 (4): 1006-1023.
Martinez,
Michael D. and Jeff Gill. 2005. "The Effects of Turnout on Partisan
Outcomes in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-2000." Journal
of
Politics 67 (4, November): 1248-1274.
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Abramson,
Paul R., John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde. 2009. Change
and Continuity in
the 2008 Elections. Washington: CQ Press.
Chapter 5.
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Rossi, Peter. 1959. Four Landmarks in Voting Research. In Eugene
Burdick and
Arthur Brodbeck (eds). American Voting Behavior.
Glencoe, IL: Free
Press.
Brooks, C., P. Nieuwbeerta, and J. Manza. 2006. Cleavage-based voting
behavior
in cross-national perspective: Evidence from six postwar democracies. Social Science Research 35 (1):88-128.
Abramowitz,
Alan I. and Kyle L. Saunders. 2006. "Exploring the Bases of
Partisanship
in the American Electorate: Social Identity Vs. Ideology." Political
Research Quarterly 59 (2, June): 175-187.
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Wald, Kenneth D. and Allison Calhoun-Brown. 2007. Religion
and Politics in
the United States. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers.
Chapter 7.
Stanley, Harold W., and Richard G. Niemi. 2006. Partisanship, Party Coalitions, and Group Support, 1952-2004. Presidential Studies Quarterly 36 (2):172-188.
* Putnam, Robert D., and David E. Campbell. 2010. American grace : how religion divides and unites us. New York: Simon & Schuster. (Chapters TBA)
Huckfeldt,
Robert, Eric Plutzer, and John Sprague. 1993.
"Alternative
Contexts of Political Behavior: Churches, Neighborhoods, and
Individuals." Journal of
Politics 55 (2, May): 365-381.
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Optional review essays
Knutsen, Oddbjørn.
2007. "The Decline of Social Class?" Pp. 457-480 in Oxford
Handbook of Political Behavior, edited by R. J. Dalton and
H.-D. Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Wald, Kenneth D. and
Clyde Wilcox. 2006. "Getting Religion: Has Political Science
Rediscovered the Faith Factor?" American Political Science
Review 100:523-529.
Wald, Kenneth D., Adam
L. Silverman, and Kevin S. Fridy. 2005. "Making Sense of Religion in
Political Life." Annual Review of Political Science
8:121-143.
* Dalton, Russell.
2002. Political Cleavages, Issues, and Electoral Change. In Lawrence
LeDuc et al. (Eds.) , Comparing Democracies 2.
Thousand Oaks: Sage.
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*
Abramson, Paul R., John H.
Aldrich, and David W.
Rohde. 2009. Change and Continuity in the 2008 Elections.
Washington: CQ
Press. Chapter 8.
*
Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald E.
Stokes. 1960. The American Voter.
New York: John
Wiley and Sons. Chapters 1, 2, 6 and 7.
*
Lewis-Beck, Michael S., William G. Jacoby, Helmut Norpoth, and Herbert
F.
Weisberg. 2008. The American Voter Revisited. Ann
Arbor: University of
Michigan Press. Chapters 6 and 7.
*
Holmberg, Sören. 1994. "Party Identification Compared Across
the
Atlantic." in Elections at Home and Abroad: Essays in Honor
of Warren
E. Miller, edited by M. K. Jennings and T. Mann. Ann Arbor:
University of
Michigan Press.
Rahn,
Wendy. 1993. "The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in
Information
Processing about Political Candidates." American
Journal of
Political Science 37: 472-496.
Bartels,
Larry M. 2000. "Partisanship and Voting Behavior,
1952-1996." American Journal of Political Science
44 (1,
January): 35-50.
** Hetherington, Marc J. 2001. Resurgent mass partisanship: The role of elite polarization. American Political Science Review 95 (3):619-631. Updated in Controversies.
*
Green, Donald et al. 2002. Partisan Hearts and Minds:
Political Parties and
the Social Identities of Voters. New Haven: Yale University
Press. Chapters
1,2,8.
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Optional review essays
Johnston, Richard.
2006. "Party Identification: Unmoved Mover or Sum of Preferences?" Annual
Review of Political Science 9:329-351.
Fiorina, Morris P. 2002. Parties and partisanship: A 40-year
retrospective. Political Behavior 24 (2):
93-115.
Holmberg, Sören. 2007. "Partisanship Reconsidered." Pp. 557-570 in Oxford
Handbook of Political Behavior, edited by R. J. Dalton and
H.-D. Klingemann. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
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Optional
Blais, André, Elisabeth
Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte. 2001.
"Measuring Party Identification: Britain, Canada, and the
United States." Political Behavior 23 (1,
March): 5-22.
MacKuen, Michael B.,
Robert S. Erikson, and James A. Stimson. 1989.
"Macropartisanship." American Political Science
Review 83: 1125-1142.
Franklin, Charles H.,
and John E. Jackson. 1983. "The Dynamics of Party
Identification." American Political Science Review
77 (4): 957-973.
Keith, Bruce E., David
B. Magleby, Candice J. Nelson, Elizabeth Orr, Mark C. Westlye, and
Raymond E. Wolfinger. 1986. "The Partisan
Affinities of Independent Leaners." British Journal
of Political Science 16 (April): 155-185.
Miller, Warren
E. 1992. "Generational Changes and Party
Identification." Political Behavior 14
(3, September): 333-360.
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*
Abramson, Paul R., John H.
Aldrich, and David W.
Rohde. 2009. Change and Continuity in the 2008 Elections.
Washington: CQ
Press. Chapter 6.
* Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy.
Chapters
1, 2, 3, 8.
Niemi,
Richard G., Herbert F. Weisberg, and David C. Kimball. 2010. "Is the American Electorate Polarized?" In
Controversies, pp. 221-241.
Fiorina, Morris
P. , with
Samuel J. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2010. Culture
War? The Myth of a
Polarized America. 3rd Edition. New York:
Pearson Longman. Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
** Abramowitz, Alan I., and Kyle L. Saunders. 2008. "Is polarization a myth?" Journal of Politics 70 (2): 542-555.
**
Fiorina, Morris P., Samuel A. Abrams, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2008.
"Polarization in the American public: Misconceptions and misreadings."
Journal of Politics 70 (2):556-560.
** Abramowitz, Alan I. 2010. "The 2008 election: Polarization continues." In Controversies.
** Fiorina, Morris P. and Samuel A. Abrams. 2010. "Where's the Polarization?" In Controversies.
Petrocik,
John R. 1996. "Issue ownership in presidential elections, with a 1980
case
study." American Journal of Political Science 40:
(3, August)
825-850.
Carmines,
Edward G. and James A. Stimson. 1980. "The Two Faces of Issue
Voting." American Political Science Review
74:78-91.
Aldrich,
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Optional
Craig, Stephen C. 1993.
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of
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Hill, Kim Quaile and
Tetsuya Matsubayashi. 2008. "Church engagement, religious values, and
mass-elite policy agenda agreement in local communities." American
Journal of Political Science 52: 570-584.
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Hillygus, D. Sunshine and Todd. G. Sheilds. 2008.
The Persuadable Voter? Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapters 1-4 (5-7 are optional, 6 is really good for campaigners).