Eric W Groenendyk

Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind

How Loyalty and Responsiveness Shape Party Identification and Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Party identification may be the single most powerful predictor of voting behavior, yet scholars disagree on whether this is good or bad for democracy. Competing Motives in the Partisan Mind provides a window into the nature of party identification by examining circumstances in which political attitudes and party identities collide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190264307
• ISBN-10: 0190264306
• Artikelnr.: 47973384

Autorenporträt

Eric Groenendyk is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2009. His research investigates the motivations and emotions underlying public opinion and political behavior. His work has appeared in Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Communication Research, and Emotion Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A Dual Motivations Theory
2. Identity Justification: Identifying with the "Lesser of Two Evils"
3. Identity Justification: Issue Reprioritization
4. Cognitive Resources and Resistance to Identity Change
5. Motivation and Measurement Error
6. The Paradox of Partisan Responsiveness
7. Motivation and Democracy
References