Reciprocal Effects of Policy Preferences, Party Loyalties and the Vote

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1537-5943|73|4|1071-1089

ISSN: 0003-0554

Source: American Political Science Review, Vol.73, Iss.4, 1979-12, pp. : 1071-1089

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Abstract

Past studies have offered diverse estimates of the role of policy preferences, party loyalties, candidate personalities and other factors in voting decisions. Most have postulated recursive (that is, one-way) causal relationships among the central variables.