A Study on the Impact of Party Identification, Secondary Group Memberships, and Increased Issue Awareness on Voting Behavior
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Authors
Carl, Bradley A.
Issue Date
1981
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The hypothesis on which the study is based is: Secondary
groups, in many case, will encourage two phenomena in
the electorate; 1.) they will tend to reinforce psychological
and acknowledged political attachments which, generally, will
be manifested in identification with a political party, and
2.) heightened issue awareness will also tend to reinforce
political attachments, social position, and will, again, be
manifested in identification with a political party. The
paper's organizational format is comprised of three sections.
The first section will summarize two studies pertaining to
the general affect of secondary group memberships on voting
behavior. The second section will analyze a specific secondary
membership, the labor union, in order to provide a closer scrutiny of the impact that a group has on its members.
The final section will attempt to show a correlation between
the movement of a significant number of identifiable secondary
group members into a community and the community's subsequent
change in voting behavior.
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xii, 112 p.
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