THE ARTICLE DISCUSSES HOW LARGE SCALE COMPLEX RESEARCH PROJECT DESIGNS ARE PROVIDING A NEW IMPETUS TO THE ELIMINATION OF SUBFIELD BOUNDARIES WITHIN POLITICAL SCIENCE. MAJOR PROJECTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL RESEARCH TO INCLUDE COMPARISONS AMONG INSTITUTIONS, ACROSS CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, AND EXTENDING THROUGH TIME.
The transmission of policy preferences from the mass electorate to the political elite is the subject of Warren Miller's illuminating new book. The elites of whom he writes are the delegates to recent nominating conventions analyzed in their subsequent roles as activists involved in presidential election campaigns. Miller's analysis delineates circumstances and conditions that affect the degree to which the issue preferences of these elite activists are more or less representative of those held by rank-and-file members of the nation's electorate.Miller argues that, although consent and account
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Medidas de mudança em pares de variáveis atitudinais podem proporcionar insights Importantes sobre a estrutura dos sistemas de crenças políticas dos públicos de massa. Dados de painéis revelam evidências da grande centralidade de alguns elementos de idéias em vez de outros no contexto de constrangimento dinâmico de curto prazo. A especificação dos atributos teoricamente relevantes dos eleitores torna possível testar diferenças estruturais esperadas que conectam predisposições relacionadas a políticas e preferências por políticas; a especificação também torna possível testar proposições que envolvem os efeitos recíprocos de atitudes e preferências emergentes de voto. Algumas das especificações mais úteis revelam até que ponto a heterogeneidade da população produz uma imagem embaçada de relações quando a análise se baseia no eleitorado total, em vez de se limitar a eleitores ou subconjuntos de eleitores especificados por critérios teóricos.
In: Political analysis: official journal of the Society for Political Methodology, the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 119-139
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 8, Heft 2, S. 119-146
Measures of change in pairs of attitudinal variables can provide important insights into the structure of the political belief systems of mass publics. Panel data reveal evidence of the greater centrality of some idea elements rather than others in the context of short-term dynamic constraint. Specification of the theoretically relevant voter attributes makes it possible to test for expected structural differences connecting policy related predispositions and policy preferences; specification also makes it possible to test propositions involving the reciprocal effects of attitudes and emerging vote preferences. Some of the more helpful specifications disclose the extent to which population heterogeneity produces a blurred image of relationships when analysis is based on the total electorate rather than limited to voters or subsets of voters specified by theoretical criteria.
National Election Studies data 1952-1988 are used to examine party identification of 3 US nonblack voter generations: those who first voted before, during, & after the New Deal era. It is found that political turmoil from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s shaped basic party identifications in the generation who first voted after 1968, but did not affect dispositions of older generations. This finding confirms the concept of enduring predisposition to a political party, largely unaffected by changing election-specific circumstances. Also discussed are the realignment of party identification in the South 1960-1988, & the circumstances of the national realignment 1980-1988. 6 Tables. Adapted from the source document.
