POLI 222 Lecture 11: Lecture 11.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 222
• Professor: Christa Scholtz

Document Summary

Partisan identification: how canadians vote and canadians think. Party id reality of discipline of political studies is usually due to questions that arise from. Us concept of partisan identification came from us ( is it a concept that we can just package and use on other countries? ) 1950 folks down in us (columbia) started asking how do people vote. *social explanation: too static to explain vote choice. Michigan model: came up with partisan identification to explain vote choice. *partisan id does not equal to how you vote. 2) stable across time / foundation - doesn"t change from month to month, party. *bedrock of party association / valuable to political scientists because it fails to predict vote choice too well. *voters don"t have lots of choices to make thus --> attachments. *register to vote : act of registering allows voters to identify first --> identifies as either a democratic/republican vote. *key to partisan competition: concept of a voter base.