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Title: Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identity of Voters by Donald P. Green, Bradley Palmquist, Eric Schickler ISBN: 0-300-09215-6 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: esoteric, academic, and incomplete
Comment: This book is written primarily to an academic audience of professors and graduate students and seems based on a collection of articles written in academic journals. For those looking for a compendium of this research, this book offers a well written summarization. In particular, it does a good job of going through recent ideas of partisanship and what accounts for the changing state of party identification in the U.S. over the past fifty years. Beyond this, however, the book has some important weaknesses. In particular, its big claim to fame is in advancing a new theory of social identification to explain why people cling so tenanciously to their attachments to the Democrat or Republican party. This is fine, except they never really develop their theory in any detal (it is only explained in about 4 pages). So unless the reader is familiar with a lot of social pscyhology their explanation will not have much resonance. More importantly they provide no explicit tests of their theory. I found it ironic that authors who spend so much effort undermining the empirical weaknesses in other research, provide no direct empirical tests to validate their own claims.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pathbreaking
Comment: What is incredible about this book is its succinct restatement of the body of work these authors have worked on over the past decade and what has come to characterize the state of the field in the macropartisanship in political science. It is an easy read and will definitely become a classic
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Title: Hard Choices, Easy Answers : Values, Information, and American Public Opinion by R. Michael Alvarez, John Brehm ISBN: 069109635X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre by David R. Mayhew ISBN: 0300093365 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Stealth Democracy: American's Beliefs about How Government Should Work by John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, James H. Kuklinski, Dennis Chong ISBN: 0521009863 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Vanishing Voter : Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty by Thomas E. Patterson ISBN: 0375414061 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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