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Ideology, Party and the Creation of the Anti-Slavery Coalition
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IDEOLOGY, PARTY AND THE CREATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY COALITION
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Hans Noel
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## email not listed ##
The latest version of this paper is available online at:
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~hnoel/download/Noel_UCLA_1850Slavery.pdf
Abstract: Do parties create ideologies to rationalize their electoral coalitions? Or do ideologies shape parties, even against the re-election incentives of party leaders? In other words, how should we understand the relationship between ideology and party? These questions require a measure of ideology that is distinct from the partisan behavior of elected politicians. This paper develops such a model, coding the positions taken by intellectual thinkers around 1850. I find that ideological writers divided into two camps on slavery and on the other major issues of the day at a time when slavery cross-cut the two main camps in Congress. This division matches the one that develops in Congress a decade later, suggesting that the parties responded not just to electoral incentives, but also to this elite division. Ideology was accepted, even though it undermined longstanding attempts to hold together intersectional alliances and brought on a division that led to the Civil War.
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I wish to thank John Zaller, Jeff Lewis, Kathleen Bawn, Andy Sabl, Simon Jackman, James Honaker and
participants at the Stanford Conference on Measurement Modeling and the UCLA Methods Workshop for valuable comments. Data analyzed were collected with support from John Zaller and the UCLA Political Science Department. Errors, omissions and any clumsiness are my own.
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Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
Department, University of California at Los Angeles
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IDEOLOGY, PARTY AND THE CREATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY COALITION
Hans Noel
## email not listed ##
The latest version of this paper is available online at:
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~hnoel/download/Noel_UCLA_1850Slavery.pdf
Abstract: Do parties create ideologies to rationalize their electoral coalitions? Or do
ideologies shape parties, even against the re-election incentives of party leaders? In other
words, how should we understand the relationship between ideology and party? These
questions require a measure of ideology that is distinct from the partisan behavior of
elected politicians. This paper develops such a model, coding the positions taken by
intellectual thinkers around 1850. I find that ideological writers divided into two camps
on slavery and on the other major issues of the day at a time when slavery cross-cut the
two main camps in Congress. This division matches the one that develops in Congress a
decade later, suggesting that the parties responded not just to electoral incentives, but also
to this elite division. Ideology was accepted, even though it undermined longstanding
attempts to hold together intersectional alliances and brought on a division that led to the
Civil War.
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I wish to thank John Zaller, Jeff Lewis, Kathleen Bawn, Andy Sabl, Simon Jackman, James Honaker and
participants at the Stanford Conference on Measurement Modeling and the UCLA Methods Workshop for valuable
comments. Data analyzed were collected with support from John Zaller and the UCLA Political Science
Department. Errors, omissions and any clumsiness are my own.
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Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
Department, University of California at Los Angeles
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