Hershey Chapter 6

Question 1

Party Identification

Answer 1

Psychological attachment towards a political party.

Question 2

Factors influencing party identification

Answer 2

1. Team Loyalty/Childhood influence.
2. Social spaces, like college, marriage, workplace.
3. Time involved with certain party. More likely to stay with party longer affiliated with it.

Question 3

Patterns of Partisanship

Answer 3

1. People don’t change party, generally just level of intensity.
2. Change happens slowly over time.
3. Cities/Urban became democratic, concentrated, while rural became increasingly Republican, dispersed.

Question 4

Split-Ticket Voting

Answer 4

Supporting candidates of more than one party.

Question 5

Partisanship/Intense Negative Feelings

Answer 5

1. Increase of hatred/polarization between parties. 2. Driven by negative feelings to vote against other party.

Question 6

Straight-Ticket Voting

Answer 6

Voting for one party only. On the rise with current polarization trends.

Question 7

Short-Term Forces

Answer 7

Operate in specific election, like a distinct candidate and their issues in a campaign.

Question 8

Retrospective Evaluations

Answer 8

1. Reactions to a president’s management of the economy, refers to past actions with failures/successes that influence partisanship.

Question 9

Myth of Independent

Answer 9

1. Attitudinal Independents- lean towards either party, of which 66% of them do.
2. Behavioral Independents- true party switchers based on party behavior. Quite rare today.