What Do You Mean by ‘Democrat’ and ‘Republican’? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.
What Do You Mean by ‘Democrat’ and ‘Republican’? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.
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联合实验的证据表明“民主党”和“共和党”是什么意思？
DOI：
10.1093/ijpor/edab025
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
and Takeshi Iida
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作者：
Ikuma Ogura;Hirofumi Miwa;and Takeshi Iida
为了更好地理解美国大众政党认同的本质，研究选民如何理解在民意调查中用来衡量党派关系的术语，如“民主党”和“共和党”，是至关重要的。为了这个目的，我们进行了一个联合实验，在这个实验中，受访者评估了假设的个人资料的党派关系。我们表明，与之前的研究依赖于一个理论视角来理解大规模党派关系相反，选民如何理解代表他们党派关系的标签反映了多种理论。此外，结果表明，许多美国人似乎将政党认同与投票选择等同起来，这与美国政治行为研究中的标准假设相反，即这是两个独立的概念。
To better understand the nature of American mass party identification, it is crucial to examine how voters understand terms used in measuring partisanship in public opinion surveys, such as “Democrat” and “Republican.” For this purpose, we conducted a conjoint experiment where respondents evaluated hypothetical profiles’ partisanship. We show that, in contrast to previous studies which rely on one theoretical perspective to understand mass partisanship, multiple theories are reflected in how voters understand labels representing their partisanship. Further, the results suggest that many Americans seem to equate party identification with vote choice, contrary to standard assumptions in American political behavior research that these are separate concepts.