TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sniderman,Paul M.
AU  - Stiglitz,Edward H.
TI  - The Reputational Premium: A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning 
SN  - 9780691154145
AV  - JF2071 
U1  - 324.2 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Party affiliation
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American party system
KW  - American politics
KW  - Democrats
KW  - Republicans
KW  - candidate positioning
KW  - democratic experiment
KW  - democratic politics
KW  - elected representatives
KW  - electoral punishment
KW  - partisans
KW  - party identification
KW  - policy conviction
KW  - policy positions
KW  - policy preferences
KW  - policy reputations
KW  - policy-based voting
KW  - political competence
KW  - political landscape
KW  - political parties
KW  - political party
KW  - programmatic partisanship
KW  - programmatic party identifiers
KW  - reputational premium
KW  - spatial reasoning
KW  - spatial voting
KW  - supply-side theory
KW  - voters
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; CHAPTER 1. Introduction --; CHAPTER 2. A Reputational Theory of Party Identifi cation and Policy Reasoning --; CHAPTER 3. Lessons from a Sterile Downsian Environment --; CHAPTER 4. The Electoral Logic of Party Reputations --; CHAPTER 5. The Democratic Experimen.t A SUPPLY- SIDE THEORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS --; APPENDIX A. A Limit on the Infl uence of the Policy Reputations of Parties --; APPENDIX B. Study Descriptions. General Description of Methodology --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary American politics enables voters to make coherent policy choices. Standard approaches to the study of policy-based voting hold that voters choose based on the policy positions of the two candidates competing for their support. This study demonstrates that candidates can get a premium in support from the policy reputations of their parties. In particular, Paul Sniderman and Edward Stiglitz present a theory of how partisans take account of the parties' policy reputations as a function of the competing candidates' policy positions. A central implication of this theory of reputation-centered choices is that party identification gives candidates tremendous latitude in their policy positioning. Paradoxically, it is the party supporters who understand and are in synch with the ideological logic of the American party system who open the door to a polarized politics precisely by making the best-informed choices on offer
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