POS 3931r Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The American Voter, Political Psychology, Unmoved Mover
29 Dec 2017
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3 models of vote choice, cont: social-psychological model (michigan or american voter model) Focuses on the individual and his/her personal political psychology. 3 sets of psychological attitudes: party id. A sense of psychological attachment in your head/how do you view yourself in terms of attachment to a political party: attitudes or orientation toward the candidates (candidate image, orientation toward the issues. Angus campbell, phillip converse, warren miller-american voter book authors. Funnel of causality: the tip of the funnel (output/vote choice) is created by the heart (party id, candidate image, issues) Con ict between mothers/fathers party id: evidence shows children most likely tend to identify with the mother b/c mothers usually stayed at home with the kids. Party id: longer-term sense of psychological attachment to a political party(importance of parental in uence) 7-point scale of party id: strong democrat, weak dem. , independent dem. I"m a cuban-american, i"m a roman catholic, i"m a republican.
