TY - JOUR
T1 - Party hacks and true believers
T2 - The effect of party affiliation on political preferences
AU - Gould, Eric D.
AU - Klor, Esteban F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Association for Comparative Economic Studies
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - This paper examines the effect of party affiliation on an individual's political views. To do this, we exploit the party realignment that occurred in the U.S. due to abortion becoming a more prominent and highly partisan issue over time. We show that abortion was not a highly partisan issue in 1982, but a person's abortion views in 1982 led many to switch parties over time as the two main parties diverged in their stances on this issue. We find that voting for a given political party in 1996, due to the individual's initial views on abortion in 1982, has a substantial effect on a person's political, social, and economic attitudes in 1997. These findings are stronger for highly partisan political issues, and are robust to controlling for a host of personal views and characteristics in 1982 and 1997. As individuals realigned their party affiliation in accordance with their initial abortion views, their other political views followed suit.
AB - This paper examines the effect of party affiliation on an individual's political views. To do this, we exploit the party realignment that occurred in the U.S. due to abortion becoming a more prominent and highly partisan issue over time. We show that abortion was not a highly partisan issue in 1982, but a person's abortion views in 1982 led many to switch parties over time as the two main parties diverged in their stances on this issue. We find that voting for a given political party in 1996, due to the individual's initial views on abortion in 1982, has a substantial effect on a person's political, social, and economic attitudes in 1997. These findings are stronger for highly partisan political issues, and are robust to controlling for a host of personal views and characteristics in 1982 and 1997. As individuals realigned their party affiliation in accordance with their initial abortion views, their other political views followed suit.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.004
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.03.004
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0147-5967
VL - 47
SP - 504
EP - 524
JO - Journal of Comparative Economics
JF - Journal of Comparative Economics
IS - 3
ER -