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Partisan Orientations over the Long Haul: Results from the Three-Wave Political Socialization Panel Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

M. Kent Jennings  and
Gregory B. Markus
M. Kent Jennings
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara and The University of Michigan
Gregory B. Markus
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
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The present study examines the dynamics of partisanship and voting behavior by utilizing national survey panel data gathered in 1965, 1973, and 1982 from two strategically situated generations—members of the high school senior class of 1965 and their parents. At the aggregate level, generational effects appeared in the persistently weaker partisan attachments of the younger generation. At the individual level, strong effects based on experience and habituation appeared in the remarkable gains occurring in the stability of partisan and other orientations among the young as they aged from their mid-20s to their mid-30s. Dynamic modeling of the relationship between partisanship and voting choice demonstrated that the younger voters had stabilized at an overall weaker level of partisanship, leading to more volatile voting behavior which, in turn, failed to provide the consistent reinforcement needed to intensify preexisting partisan leanings.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , December 1984 , pp. 1000 - 1018
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1984

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