POL 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Motivated Reasoning, Southern Democrats, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
5 Feb 2019
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A long-standing, psychological attachment to a political party. You may or may not vote for that party"s candidates. Generally speaking, do you usually think of yourself as a democrat, republican, and. People who say they lean towards a party typically act the same as those who identify. Source matters because different sources have different expectations of parties. Partisanship is based on retrospective evaluations of party performance. Do they like the platforms that a party put forward, do they feel they did well when in. Retrospective attachment (unlikely) power, do they like how the minority party challenged the main party, etc. Ideological attachment (simplest explanation, but only for some people) Issue attitudes all add together to form your ideological position. Attitude 4: support some involvement of federal government in state activities. Based on these evaluations, people form attachments to a party and vote. Judge whether the party in government achieved those goals. If true: changes in party vote over time.
