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Replication data for: The Role of Party Identification in Spatial Models of Voting Choice

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Title Replication data for: The Role of Party Identification in Spatial Models of Voting Choice
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27194
 
Creator Lachat, Romain
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Party identification and issue preferences are central explanatory factors in many voting choice models. Their effects on party preferences are usually understood to be additive. That is, issue preferences’ impact on party utilities is assumed to be the same among both party identifiers and nonidentifiers. This paper suggests an alternative model in which party identification moderates the impact of issues on the vote. The impact of issue preferences on party utilities should be weaker among voters who identify with a party. This hypothesis is tested using data from four recent Dutch election studies. The results show that identifying with a party substantially weakens the issue preference effect on party evaluations, particularly for the party with which a voter identifies.
 
Subject voting choice
spatial model
party identification
 
Date 2014
 
Type Dutch election studies