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		<title>The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/05/the-party-faithful-partisan-images-candidate-religion-and-the-electoral-impact-of-party-identification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American voters tend to vote for their party&#8217;s candidate. That&#8217;s not news. The question is, why? Political science has usually relied on three answers. The psychological approach says that voters support their party because of a deep, emotional, psychological attachment to it (see The American Voter). The rational approach characterized partisanship as a &#8220;running tally&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Measures of Partisanship, Ideology, and Policy Mood in the American States</title>
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		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/new-measures-of-partisanship-ideology-and-policy-mood-in-the-american-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, political scientists have come up with lots of different ways to measure each state&#8217;s relative ideology. We all have a general sense that Utah, Idaho, and Mississippi lie to the right of Massachusetts, Hawaii, and California, but it&#8217;s helpful to put exact numbers on those differences. Many folks have relied on Erikson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Governors Responsible for the State Economy? Partisanship, Blame, and Divided Federalism</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/are-governors-responsible-for-the-state-economy-partisanship-blame-and-divided-federalism/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/are-governors-responsible-for-the-state-economy-partisanship-blame-and-divided-federalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tooting my own horn: Here&#8217;s the university&#8217;s press release for my recent article. It gets things mostly right. A down economy usually spells trouble for incumbents, but a new study shows that six Republicans up for re-election this year caught a break when John McCain lost the last presidential election. The analysis found that some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constituents&#8217; Responses to Congressional Roll-Call Voting</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/constituents-responses-to-congressional-roll-call-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/constituents-responses-to-congressional-roll-call-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out that democracy works, at least when it comes to voters holding members of Congress accountable for their voting record. For accountability to happen, we need to see three things: (1) Voters need to have specific opinions on specific issues before Congress; (2) voters need to know how their member of Congress actually voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/personality-and-political-attitudes-relationships-across-issue-domains-and-political-contexts/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/personality-and-political-attitudes-relationships-across-issue-domains-and-political-contexts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about Mondak et al.&#8217;s recent APSR article about personality and political participation. On the very next page of the same issue of APSR, you&#8217;ll find a closely related article by Gerber et al. Where Mondak et al. used the &#8220;Big Five&#8221; personality traits to predict participation in politics, Gerber et al. use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/personality-and-civic-engagement-an-integrative-framework-for-the-study-of-trait-effects-on-political-behavior/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/personality-and-civic-engagement-an-integrative-framework-for-the-study-of-trait-effects-on-political-behavior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political scientists pay very little attention to personality when they study political behavior. Instead, they prefer to look at environmental variables (campaign spending, personal income, personal education, candidate quality, electoral competitiveness, electoral system, etc.). A few years ago,  Alford, Funk, and Hibbing challenged that environmental approach by showing that political orientations are genetically transmitted. Later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/partisanship-political-control-and-economic-assessments/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/partisanship-political-control-and-economic-assessments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know that partisanship influences economic evaluations. In survey after survey, we have found that Republicans and Democrats rate the economy differently, yet we still don&#8217;t understand why. More accurately, we don&#8217;t know which &#8220;why&#8221; is the real &#8220;why.&#8221; Folks who have published evidence of these perceptual biases have also offered lots of different reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Communications in U.S. Congressional Elections</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/campaign-communications-in-u-s-congressional-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/09/campaign-communications-in-u-s-congressional-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve long known that most voters pay little attention to campaign rhetoric; they pay far more attention to partisanship, incumbency, and other easily accessible considerations (although rhetoric certainly has its place). Still, candidates work hard to develop arguments that, they hope, will sway voters to their side. The question: How do candidates decide what to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854-2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2008/05/cycles-in-american-national-electoral-politics-1854-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2008/05/cycles-in-american-national-electoral-politics-1854-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1924, Arthur Schlesinger famously predicted that &#8220;Coolidge-style conservatism would last till about 1932.&#8221; Later, he added that the &#8220;prevailing liberal mood would run its course in about 1947.&#8221; In 1949, he predicted once again that &#8220;the recession from liberalism was due to end in 1962,&#8221; and that the &#8220;next conservative epoch will commence around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2008/05/framing-public-opinion-in-competitive-democracies/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2008/05/framing-public-opinion-in-competitive-democracies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.B.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a democracy, politicians and policy outcomes should be responsive to changes in public opinion. But what if politicians (or others, such as media commentators) were able to manipulate public opinion through propaganda or other, more subtle methods? We might appear on the surface to have democracy, but it would be a farce. The public [...]]]></description>
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