Using Graphs Instead of Tables in Political Science
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 5, Heft 4
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 5, Heft 4
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 755-772
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Political analysis: PA ; the official journal of the Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 365-386
ISSN: 1476-4989
This paper develops and tests arguments about how national-level social and institutional factors shape the propensity of individuals to form attachments to political parties. Our tests employ a two-step estimation procedure that has attractive properties when there is a binary dependent variable in the first stage and when the number of second-level units is relatively small. We find that voters are most likely to form party attachments when group identities are salient and complimentary. We also find that institutions that assist voters in retrospectively evaluating parties—specifically, strong party discipline and few parties in government—increase partisanship. These institutions matter most for those individuals with the fewest cognitive resources, measured here by education.
In: Political analysis: official journal of the Society for Political Methodology, the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 365-386
ISSN: 1047-1987