POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unmoved Mover, The American Voter
23 Mar 2016
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Classic conception of party identification: the classic conception of party identification is found in the american voter by. Campbell, converse, miller, and stokes in the 1960s: this conception has social-psychological roots, the socialization of party identification. A person"s first exposure to political parties comes in childhood from one"s parents. The connection between a parent and a child is one of the first social connections a child makes. There is a very trusting relationship between a parent and a child. The parent-child relationship generally does not compete with other political socialization influences. Party identification tends to be particularly influential and resilient because of the reasons stated above. Party identification is particularly strong when both parents share the same party identification. Most people"s party identification does change as they move through adolescence and young adulthood, when they are exposed to citizens with different party identifications and different political views. Party identification usually stabilizes by early adulthood: affective attachment.
