Week 3

Question 1

What caused partisan dealignment

Answer 1

Funding, Disillusionment, Policy convergence, Role of the media, Decay of social divisions, Rising education

Question 2

How do voters choose

Answer 2

Social class, religion, issues, the economy and leader personalities

Question 3

Party identification theory

Answer 3

a measure of association people have with political parties

Question 4

Political cleavage theory

Answer 4

electoral behavior is the result of underlying cleavage structure of societies, these cleavage structures are the product of long historical processes

Question 5

What is a cleavage

Answer 5

Social division, collective identity, organizational expression

Question 6

Four key cleavages

Answer 6

1. Center periphery cleavage (creation of the states)
2. Church state cleave
3. Urban rural cleavage (industrialization produced a massive shift of production from the rural to the urban area)
4. Owner worker cleavage (produced a large group of people working in the urban sector)

Question 7

Reasons why cleavage politics have declined

Answer 7

Modern economy, emergence of media and emergence on new political issues

Question 8

Consequences of dealignment

Answer 8

Increased electoral volatility, increase in the fragmentation of party systems, split ticket voting, increased importance of electoral campaigns, increase in general political interest