Examples of party identification in the following topics:
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- Party identification is usually determined by which political party the individual most commonly supports, through voting or other means.
- Party identification refers to the political party with which an individual identifies.
- Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports, by voting or other means. shows the shift of party identification between the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
- One method of measuring party identification uses the Likert Scale.
- The Likert Scale is a 7 point scale to measure party identification:
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- Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports.
- Party identification refers to the political party with which an individual identifies.
- Party identification is typically determined by the political party that an individual most commonly supports (by voting or other means).
- Party identification can increase or even shift by motivating events or conditions in the country.
- Party Identification is characterized in three ways.
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- A person's partisan identification is defined as a long-term attachment to a particular party.
- Childhood influence is one of main driving factors behind formation of party identification.
- The longer an individual holds a party identification, the stronger that attachment to the party becomes.
- As voter identification with political parties has declined, so has dedication to the two-party system.
- Differentiate between two ways of understanding the stability of party identification
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- Due to a decrease in party identification, the personal traits of candidates have become an influential factor in voters' decisions.
- At the same time, the United States has witnessed increasing polarization between the Democratic and Republican Parties that has caused many voters to identify themselves as independents.
- This increasing lack of party identification combined with the difficulties that arise with issue voting has resulted in voting decisions based on the personality and demographic traits of candidates.
- Candidates are most often evaluated on their party affiliation and stances on prominent issues.
- However, when the aforementioned problems with party identification and issue voting arise, the personal characteristics of candidates may enter into campaign strategies and voting decisions.
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- The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
- At various times, the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party had considerable local strength, and then faded away.
- At present, the Libertarian Party is the most successful third party.
- Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
- Party identification becomes somewhat formalized when a person runs for partisan office.
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- Another source of error stems from faulty demographic models by pollsters who weigh their samples by particular variables such as party identification in an election.
- For example, one could assume that the breakdown of the US population by party identification has not changed since the previous presidential election.
- As a result, one would underestimate a victory or a defeat of a particular party candidate that saw a surge or decline in its party registration relative to the previous presidential election cycle.
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- In contrast to party voting, issue voting is when voters base their election decisions on political issues.
- These issues can relate to any questions of public policy that are a source of debate between political parties.
- The in issue voting rise can be traced to increasing polarization between the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Moderates, who account for a large segment of the American population, become more alienated as each party adopts more extreme viewpoints.
- The loss of party identification affiliated with being an independent generates the greater issue voting.
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- Studies of political partisanship have found that partisanship is strongest when both parents have the same political loyalties, these loyalties are strong, both parents have similarly strong party loyalties, and parental partisanship accords with socio-economic status (for example, the wealthy are Republicans or the poor are Labour supporters).
- When social group homogeneousness is low, the individual is likely to be less strongly socialized into partisan politics and more likely to seek a different party loyalty (whether by disengaging from partisanship or switching partisan loyalties).
- Additionally, theorists suggested that older voters favored certain policy preferences (such as strong government pensions and old-age health insurance) which led them to favor one party over another.
- Party identification seemed strongly affected by certain formative generational events, such as the Civil War, the Great Depression or the social upheaval of the 1960s.
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- While identifying with and believing strongly in a particular party or political ideology can be important in explaining why and how people vote, these factors seldom decide elections alone.
- Party identities become less important when voters base their decisions on short-term, election-specific factors, such as the leadership qualities of a candidate.
- When people decide to vote based on candidates rather than party identification or political ideology, candidate image can be very important.
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- ., general election campaigns promote presidential candidates running for different parties.
- In general elections citizens can actively participate in campaigning for their preferred political party.
- The identification of supporters is useful later on during campaigns when voters are reminded to cast their votes.
- In some cases, candidates of the same political party challenge each other.
- The identification of supporters is useful later, as campaigns remind voters to cast their votes.