Partisan divisions and voting decisions: U.S. senators, governors, and the rise of a divided
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The 1980 and 1982 American national election studies include a new series of questions about individual partisanship. It is possible to create a 5-point scale of party support/closeness from these questions. The new measure performs reasonably as regards its relationship to other measures of...
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