Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics by Edward G. Carmines & James A Stimson

Author:Edward G. Carmines & James A Stimson [Carmines, Edward G. & Stimson, James A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Political Process, General
ISBN: 9780691218250
Google: Z83xDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 54706159
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 4.6 Desegregation Attitudes of Party Activists Weighted by Degree of Activity, 1952–1980. Source: SRC/CPS National Election Study Series, 1952–1980.

Looking at the positions of the two parties through the views of their active supporters, which we show in Figure 4.6, displays a cleaner glimpse of an issue evolution in progress. The same basic patterns are in evidence as in Figure 4.5, but they are stronger than the more inertial mass electorate sample and a bit less variable than the activists, treated as a discrete category rather than a continuum of activity. When weighted by activity levels, the identifiers of the two parties display a polarization over race that begins in 1964 and continues unabated through the end of the period, reaching its largest dimension in 1980, the final year of the period. If we take the next step and assume that a similar process may be the mechanism by which ordinary citizens come to “know” what the parties stand for, on any number of issues, then a number of puzzling problems, seeming contradictions, and unanswered questions may all have a straightforward solution. We turn now to a detailed analysis of the logic of that solution.

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