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Green, Jane. "Partisan Preferences and Party Loyalty: A challenge to theories of party position" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42516_index.html>

Green, J. , 2005-09-01 "Partisan Preferences and Party Loyalty: A challenge to theories of party position" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42516_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Commonly accepted explanations for party divergence are based on assumptions about the ideological polarization of partisans. This paper challenges these explanations in the British case by re-examining a) the distribution of partisans on five ideological scales of the British Election Survey cross-sections (1987 and 2001), and b) the effects of issue proximity upon the likelihood of being a Conservative identifier between 1992 and 2001, using the British Election Panel Studies, 1992-1997 and 1997-2001. I demonstrate that partisan preferences are now more consensual, leading to a ‘valence electorate’ in the UK. I also argue, due to the endogenous nature of issue proximity, that issue distance has not contributed to a significant reduction in partisan support for the Conservative Party. These findings call into question the application of ‘core vote’ theories of party behaviour.

Move to the Center or Mobilize the Base? Effects of Political Competition, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Loyalties on the Ideological Convergence of Vote-Maximizing Candidates in Two-Party Competition

Purposes, Ways, and Means of Identifying Party Left-Right Positions